Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1916 — PAT ROSE TO THE OCCASION [ARTICLE]

PAT ROSE TO THE OCCASION

■" v * Lookout's Appeal Did Not Fall on Deaf Ear*, as Far as Irishman Was Concerned. Twas off the coast of dear old Ire* land, and the steamship was a trifle off Its course. It had, In fact taken the wrong turning. “Breakers ahead I We are lost I" yelled the lookout from his point od vantage in the bows. “Begorra I” cried the Irish cook, “we’re not lost if that will save us.“ And he seized a belaying pin and hit the lookout such a blow as completely to daze the man. "How dare youj” bellowed the cap* tain, angrily. “Why, did you strike that man?” “Well," replied Pat, "he yelled, *Break us ahead or we are lost!’ and, sure, I did it, sir. And I'll break a dozen, sir, if that’ll save the shifc bedad I”