Show aa ph aidi W THE SAGA its the second day out now lost in a hellish sun in the t tropic 1 I Is seas as no drinking water and no food be yond four oranges cut ut into bits and now nearly gone eight americans adrift in rubber boats eight americans on a mission for you and me now face to ince face with agonizing torture and death I 1 say all this stuff about ration cards chos giving all these orders about gas anyhow im sick of being ordered around like this I 1 tell ya they cant make nie me turn in my extra tires I 1 the boy john bartek fumbles now and pulls out an issue bible A murmur runs through the rubber boats they organize davat and evening pra prayer cr meetings and rick reads from the good book our father fa ther who art in heaven hallowed he be thy name give us this day our daily bread dear christ hear our prayers grant us deliverance 1 well new more cuts in gas and oil eh gotta cotta turn in my spares spare the liell hell I 1 dilill hear about tho the latest down at the shop talking 0 of f fifty hours d n yeah well tie up the whole shebang first grant oh lord that we may not die like this rick are our minds cracking are we seeing things no boys ive touched it ive got it by a wing I 1 they kill the seagull as mercifully a as s possible and bait balt their hooks A six inch mackerel and one bass are caught thanking god they tear them to bits and devour them 1 I tell ya were working too many hou hours I 1 theres a limit to what a man can stand rub it in any i more ore and we strike what nobody can doi do this to us and get away with it rr its the eleventh day now in those three rubber boats alex the boy is about done for the salt spray breaking over his fevered body in the night is like ice rick takes him in his arms and cuddles him like a child on ahe the thirteenth day the lad wants to get into the little boat they switch him but at three in the morning there is the final gasp ga sp on the fourteenth day they lower his body into the sea into thy arms we commend his spirit we e bring not nothing icing into inlo this world we c can an take nothing outi say dadja read what were supposed to do about meat i gotta cut out having steaks often what next gone nuts all the people are arc getting mighty sick of sacrifices 4 seventeenth day god grant us deliverance it if only somebody could sight us boys I 1 theres one oft off to port rj five miles off coming this way I 1 floo hooray rayl I 1 yell I 1 wave Wavel your hands I 1 sties veering oft off ashes going on I 1 take these fuel oil regulations outrageous imagine trying to tell me how warm I 1 can be 0 eighteenth day two planes are sighted but again they disappear into the blue distances well its too late now i death cant be far off 0 nineteenth da day grant us lis thy spiritual pres presence nce lord that we may meet our end as you would have us forgive us our sins comfort our loved ones cooki two plarl planes esl 1 th bhreel reel are arc we stark mad they too go on I 1 twenty first day another plane it sights US its coming coining for us now were saved I 1 glory be to godt godl william onell head af of the general tire rubber company has bought the yankee network a radio network serving all new england he says he does so to provide for the great expansion in the rubber industry after the war are we going to tune tuna in and get a tire for i i our car 1 or has mr oneil devised a plan for making it possible for us to get our rubbers repaired by television abw buy war bonds |