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Show FUN IN THE NAVY Hy listening nn Instant )ou will hear hoorBo guffaws from tno water front. Tho news about tho Navy has Just got to tho coastwlso sklppors and the fishermen. "No," C-erald; port nnd starboard nro no longer good form In tho United States navy. Herenftcr one must say left nnd right. Tlio Department is Jostling tho prestlgo of thnt son of Dublin who wns working his pnssngo rrom Virginia Vir-ginia capes to Quecnstown. They sent him up forward for looR out duty. du-ty. Faith says ho, I seo something. Tlwy nsked him what It wns I shtrongly sushpect It's n drug store. I seo tho red nnd grsno lights. In 'v v v v wv sr a navy manned chiefly from the farms of the Middle West, why lot P Geo and Haw? Instead of Avast l', there Spllco tho main brncol why W not, Hey you, tako up that breeching wt a hole? Or thus: Present my compli- ' ments to tho gentleman at tho wheel and ask him It ho will kindly turn m It an lota to tho tort, t think I f smell an uncharted shoal In the ofll If Ing, and "Tho man at tho wheel re- I turns your compliments and begs to Inform you that wo strucR the uncharted un-charted shoal flvo minutes ago, and what you smell Is tho bllgo which has sought refuge, as per Senator SmPus suggestion In tho wnter tight com- partments." . . . ?" roars the commander. "Yes, but sir,' says the a quartermaster (wo call him orderly) S "you must remember, sir, that the Jj gentleman at tho wheel Is left hand- fl ed." Or again: "Mr. nowiine, will 51 you go forward nnd tako a turn of at pack thread hround tho left anchor?" J and tho bewildered Bowline asks, y? "Aye, ayo Blr. Tho left ns you face 3 for'ard, sir or tho left as you face Av 9l aft?" "As you faco left, you block- W ML head!" bellows tho great admiral and tho remark goes Into tho school his- 1 1 torles for till tlmo as tho motto whl-a ' shall insplro tho youth of the nation h , to great deeds of maritime prowess. & |