OBEYING THE RULE.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 151033, 26 July 1919, Page 6

OBEYING THE RULE.

;:The German has a holy reverence for rules and regulations," 'said .Admiral Sims. ''One of .our Yfinkee destroyers took a U-boat crow prisoner. Among them was a particularly square-headed, iantiM'n-jawed German, obviously a country 'bumpkin before he degenerated into a pirate. A midshipman thought he'd rag the Boche a bit —particularly as he discovered he could talk English—and said to him—

" 'Say, Fritz, I guess we're not going to do a thing to you. You're going to be tarred, feathered, shot, hamstrung, and pitched over the side of the boat. That's aUt's

"Fritz was not especially dazed by this programme, but evinced sufficient interest in it to inquire:— '* 'Did you 6ay I vas to be drowned in de vater also, yes?' " -You've got me the first time, kid,' said the middy. " 'Veil, all right/ said Fritz, resignedly, Vatever is de rule.' "