Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1916 — ALL KINDS OF PROVISIONS [ARTICLE]

ALL KINDS OF PROVISIONS

Truthful Traveler Explains How Sailors Were Enabled to Alleviate the Pangs of Hunger. •. -- - - • • ■ -■*——*“~r ' "7 He was describing the privations of a voyage from which he bad just returned. “Then,” he said, “I went down to the cabin to lunch.” “Lunch 1” exclaimed one of his hearers. “But you told us there was nothing to eat left on board. What did you have for lunch?” “Oh r waff the reply, “it was ft very modest affair —beef, wine and an egg.” “Beef?” Where did yon get the beef from ?" “Oh!” was the reply, “that came from the bulwarks.” “And the wine—how about that?” “Oh, that came from the porthole!” “Oh oh!” laughed the listener. “Good, very good! But tell me where did you get the egg?” “Oh, that was the simplest of all!” came the reply. “The captain gave orders for the ship to ‘lay to,’ and he gave me one.” —Pearson’s Weekly.