“After eating we will let them

Have a rousing old encore.

Stow your lanyards, O my Jackies;

Let the cannon cease to roar.”

Then upspake the fighting gunner:

“Dewey, don’t, I beg of you.

What’s the use of drinking coffee

Till we’ve put this scrimmage through?

If there’s any one who’s hungry,

Won’t this Spanish omelet do?

“Farragut would not have done it

When through Mobile Bay he sped.

Why then, Dewey, should we breakfast

Till we’ve plunked ’em full of lead?

Let our motto be as his was—

Damn the fishballs! Go ahead!”

THE PATHETIC TALE OF THE CADDY BOY

“Come here,” said I, “oh caddy boy, and tell me how it haps

Come

You cling so fast unto these links; not like the other chaps,

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