Show JACKY ON SHIPBOARD ad which li is by a paternal jacky a bed Is a hammock and it la Is a folding portable bed of the mot most tin ed kind says scribner 9 people who sing filing hammocks on verandas ve in the summer gummer know nothing whatever about backys style of bed ills his Is 1 made ot of an oblong piece of stout canvas fitted with eye holes in the ends in the eye holes are made fast small email ropes called clews cles and these are lashed at their outer ends enda to a ring when backys folding bed ls Is open tor for use it hangs by these rings from ham mock hooks fitted to the beams under the decka jacky has a mattress and a blanket in his bed and he has hafl to keep them there when he turna out as getting up to Is called he rolls his hammock up no 0 on n its longest axis and lashes it with a rope provided tor for that pur there must bs be seven turns in the lashing with one exactly la in the middle the clews are tucked in under unde the lashing jacky la allowed ten minutes to turn out and lash hla his ham hammock moek then lie ha goes up on the spar deck and hands handa the hammock to one of tho the stowers et who drops it into the nettings gettings net tings the th netting gettings net tings are simply troughs la in the ships rail A tarpaulin Is hauled over the hammocks and laced down to keep the rain out and there they stay till they are served out again at night la in the meantime it if jacky desires to sleep and in war tinis he does very often need a nay nap he perforce seek ahn gentle bremes a of a steel battle batch or an oily alley way where cooks and marines do bieak in and coad corrupt but a paternal government provides the hammock for jacky and also allows him blin the use ot of the dock deca |