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Show AT SEA. Well all I know what I read In the papers, or see on ship board. A ship a ... Posed to '' e r e a t me place or nvr Pot. The;?''1 day everj;K walks by t.-.' acting like ; 8 are not p any attentl;:' each other ; second day;:S' size each up. The tl;:! day after tt -K1 Ing up tht.iii back to passing without lookii;' they did the first day. If by that;) !" you havent got everybody's nu:;'J you are just plain dumb. I;) There has been enough hea '' geather in the meantime to up, or fill in any odds and endi ;J might be missing about some v"'! Its awful hard to be on a boal 1 where, and not be recognize' tD sight by somebody. Then II -:? have any past, the one that k'fS it, trades It for something somebody that they know. Tl I0! there is any missing inforni!l; you can always go to the p:!S There is nobody in America, ( 'f civilized world that a purser oi' dont know, he makes a hotel :!'!! look like a man that was deaf, and blind. He has had this ori:! man on the voyage, away back" they used to have their wife, o s'ic band with em. Thats how loi knows em. .- K' Then to help out your inforn.rri you have the folks on a boa ..;.; do nothing but ride on boats. will hem you up back over th ' peller and tell you how many f they have crossed this parti stretch of ocean. If its to Hoi they can point out the vi sharks and call em by name as swim along by the boat and bi an arm or leg. Then there is always the i era" on there that change cloi.4 few times a day and make a& for all the women. They are p the old time country drmnme: . They know all of Wynn's . Pearl's latest jokes and wfea country will come to if they ker? carrying on like they are. The girls with all the colored slacl 1 It takes an awful rough sea to 3 them from walking the deck ' there is many of em on tha ; wouldent hardly call a girl any'Pt Then there is generally a 5. mat of some breed on board. I.V ways looks like a flat-footed sc police. Because you can tell egl ships length away. You hem hi-in hi-in the smoking room and he s very mysterious about his trip his mission. He tells you he iJ ing called home for a "Cons 3 tion," but Its generally for anamination. an-amination. Then the children ' Bless Em," they are running i:-tripping i:-tripping over everybody. It tal s rough day to quiet them down. :' you almost wish for it. Then too there is the exclP" ones. They are on the same boal they look on the others as le' They dont want to be containing They look like the minute the: ; off the boat they will fly to a c -j somewhere away from all ea: ': things. Then there is the ships -cers who are "always pleasant" nice. And that must be quite a ;-at ;-at times, with all the questions :'-are :'-are asked of them. "Officer tel :;-which :;-which is the port and which is1 starboard side of this boat, I i; cant get it straight, and why ii-3 world do they call em by those ;; names?" "Oh Captain, what time dock?" "How about my camera, say these Japs are cranky as g - about taking pictures, pic-tures, I dont see why every country coun-try has blue prints of the others' oth-ers' fort i f i c a tions." "H o w m a n y cigarettes can I take in? Suppose Sup-pose I smoke a little on each one; will that let me in with more ?" "N o j Madam, you can take all the b In you want." "What docs those bells mean r -ing all the time, and how in .; : world do you tell the time W 1 they all ring alike to me?" " ' they ever get through scrubt,; this boat. I guess they are goim keep on till everybody falls." "V"-dont "V"-dont they put an outrigger arrai.,'' mcnt on this boat like they do tn ; Kanakas do at Honolulu to kcei, from turning over?" "lmas"ie little Japancso saying their mo s better than ours. Why 1 E,va ,s real money for this hand full reus." "Officer Is it truo that banks in Japan all have Chin ; cashiers?" "Well hero we arc- ; wo have to toll theso HU1 fL'"c ,. all about oursolvs ami what wo and why?" ' |