EARLY RIVER DAYS 31 



"I couldn't give satisfaction, I was paid off." 



"Where did the Icicle come from, the cabin or the 

 messroom?" 



"Why the messroom, of course. The officers were 

 delighted with me work The captain had tears in his 

 eyes when I left the boat; but I couldn't please the 

 men." 



"Well Jimmie Luker! I'm really surprised that a 

 'cuke' of your experience should fail to handle a com- 

 mon situation like that. Why didn't you fill them up on 

 sweet stuff -pie and cake and candy?" 



"That's just what I did. I sat up nights making 

 candy and gave them pie and cake three times a day 

 and for midnight lunch and then the reprobates set up 

 the howl for 'puddin' and I quit her right there." 



