the two sailors arrive at the Astor House Bur. Excitement such as docs not fall to the lot of every Thetorieal bluejacket on shore is dropped into their very beer. But the leave of one is not elastic enough to stand the strain so. the next lay the "Beak" focuses a air of thoughtful, unvevealing evea upon the pair. "You understand, ho repeats the old refrain "that you must speak the truth and tell the court actly what happened, and the Bluejacket into dramatic narrative, "Before we could say Jack Robinson, six, the fight was on. Me and' nly moire was sitting at the table enjoying a quiet spot of beer, when all of a sudden, six, L sees the gleam of stea! in the big chap's first (pointing to. accused looking ike a broken' bulwark). He fires one shot, sit, at the bartender, and the floor resounds with the flying ead, Quick a8 a wink, yer Honour, we jets him on the deck, but my mite gets a bit of ai nick in the wrist hat the same time, "Then the bar authorities raikes a and and puts him out. Me and my maire Swallows another drop of beer, yer Honour, when the Big un comes hack into the room. Look ere, Jack, we says to the bartender we dont Want yo trouble ere, and there Yont be none so long as that Btops out." he shooting at the bartender?'
"Oh, gets you, Sir, No, he couldn't ave shot the bartender, has me and my mate, we as him fon the deck before he could say Sack Robinson."
Evidence for the prosecution is ended, and the British Navy exonerated, ' One hopes there was no painfal sequel on board ship, No self-respecting seaman but has a romantic fancy. We have it, too, on the authority of his Honour, the' Judge, that sometimes this romantic funny crops out in strange places. To wit, the story of the It happened like this. A cow! with a cut rope trailing behind her a bright Sabbath morning pursued a peaceful course down Broo: way, She lifted a large, wistful eye occasionally, and mooed plain-Lively at curious, unhelpfalvpassers by. Finally, she found a friend. 'She wax a municipal cow, and she recognized the municipal' seal on the cap of her friend, the policeman Thereafter, by dint of patient inquiry on the part of handful of guardians of the law, the cow, meantime, doing her best to be! amenable to justice, her home was} traced for her to the cowshed in Dixwell Road, where a man "under influence" lay snoring grandiloquently.
The following morning the somnolent one was awake, though the Court would hardly have suspected it from looking at him, and his glance proclaimed that, what had Tong been a suspicion in his mind, was now a confirmed fact. Every hand was "again" him. He, whose intentions had been but kindly and mild and pleasingly fanciful, had, once again been misunderstood.
"drunk and inéapelons damage to S.M.G. property, i.e. cutting of rope to the extent of 80 cents." Accused told the court that he hed no ques-us to ask but that he certainly did have a statement to make. This was made at considerable length. The narrative ran something like goodness only know how Jong, accused had been the victim of "hazing" on the part of the ship's engineer. He had tried to get a transfer to another ship, but when a mian needs a thing the worst, it is nowhere to be found. His Honour himself must have known how true that was. So that, in fact, the shadow of the prison-house had spread over accused in that ship for days on end. "And finally accused came ashore and had, a drink.
"Soe here." his Honour remonstrafes mildly, "You mustn't speak Like that have."
"Well sir, that's what I says to Vim; I'm sworn to, tell the ote truth, int 1, sir?" nly, you must tell the his Honour rejoin sir, I says to him, you you dont taiko your—bulke out-
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