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Show PASSED UP ALL FOR CLAIM PIE Delicacy That Made Hit With "Sea Devil." Jot Small was telling me about the time Coiml von Luckner ("the Sea Devil") vlsiled Commander McMillen, of Arctic fame, In Provincetown. Mass. "Mac brought the count and some other guests over here to my Galley - for supper one night," Jot related. "And I just locked the doors after 3 they got In, so we wouldn't be dis- ! turbed by no other customers. "Well, U was a Sat'day night, so !) of course the principal dish was ' baked beans. And after while, I got $ to noticing that Von Luckner didn't y seem to care much for the beans. Oh, he was polite about It, all right, but he wasn't, what you might call eager. He et bread and he drank , f coffee, and he pushed the beans and the pork around on his plate and went through the motions. But beans wasn't his dish. "So pretty soon I whispered to Mac. 'Do you think he'd like clam iT pie?' v. "'Try him and see what happens,' says Mac. J; "So I cut a big wedge of clam pie and put It down by his plate. He looked at it, sort of uncertain, for a minute. Then he reached out his (-.p- fork and cut off a little nibble. Then I seen his eyes kind of sparkle. Be took a bigger bite. Then he took both hands and made a motion like a man swimmin', and pushed the li9 beans one way and the coffee and ' int bread the other, and pulled that pie msdta rjphc in front of him. "'Bv Chove,' he hollered, T haf to ti) found someding ! ountia "He swallered that wedire like a logfish stealin' bait, and he held out au, his plate for more. That happened , V;ii three times, and then he'd ei the hull dam pie. And every time he'd finish a piece, he'd say, 'By Chove, I haf found someding !' maj "He'll be droppin' his hook in these '0BS waters ' again, some day. Because Llahj he's goin' to have a heck of a time tryin' to teach 'em to make clam pie In Germany !" Cleveland Plain ed f-T DeaIer' |
