Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1912 — Call That Jack Welcomed. [ARTICLE]

Call That Jack Welcomed.

A man-o’-warsman, on visit to hi* native city of Liverpool, gave an amusing instance of the readiness and resource of naval seamen. He had made an arrangement at Portsmouth to meet a chum from his own ship, but he had forgotten the number of the house, and he did not care to knock at every door until he came to the right one. A rag-and-bone man with a bugle passed along. Jack seized the bugle. ■ “I’m looking for a chum,” he explained. Then he blew the grog call of the navy. As the last note died away a window was hastily flung up and a sailor’s head was thrust out. “Ah,” said Jack, as he handed back the bugle, “I knew I’d find him. He’s never missed that call yet!” And a few minutes later the soughtfor tar explained sorrowfully to his chum:— “You’ve given me away all right! I’m courtin’ the gal there, and told them that I was a teetotaller; but her fa the r is an old salt and knows the call.” —London Tit-Bits.