Volume VII, Number 4. 
Off Galapagos Islands 
26 July, 1938 
HH 
POLLYWOGS, 
BEWARE/ 
NEPTUNE WELCOMES 
POLLYWOGS ? ? ? ? 
Monday morning at exactly 0840 as 
the Houston crossed the broad white 
equatorial line, a group of denizens 
covered with barnacles, sea weed, and 
the slime of the bottom, emerged from 
the green, watery depths. King Nep- 
tune and his court climbed aboard 
through the hawse pipe to look over 
the tender, juicy pollywog recruits 
which the ship offered. 
A gun boomed— Neptune Rex's flag 
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