Gee, it was
awful!"
CHAPTER XV
A SPY ON BOARD
Porky rubbed a hand across his eyes, as though to shut out a
disagreeable sight. Beany shook his head. The boys evidently
hated the pictures that memory drew.
"Let's have the rest of it, boys," said the Captain of the
Firefly. "We may as well have the whole thing at once."
"Well!" said Porky 'sighing, "that's how things went until
to-day--or I guess it was yesterday, wasn't it? Anyhow, I can't
tell just when anything happened. All I know is that everybody
was just as though they were strung on wires.
"And that Captain got uglier and uglier. He talked German to the
men, and then he would turn around and speak the best English you
ever heard. It seemed awfully funny. He knew a lot of people
back home, all the high-brows, and when he got pretty full, he
would commence to sing. And say he had that Caruso guy lashed to
the mast, I bet. He sang love stuff, and sob stuff, and a lot of
opera stuff that sounded like gargling. Gee, it was great!
"Then he would make me and Beany stand at attention, and he would
tell us all about the German army, and how strong it is, and all
about their navy, and how we just had to be wiped off the map.
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