Lewis war diary, August 1917-March 1919 / James Ray Lewis - Page 29
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everyone. We also have fistie combats with the mits on, where budding Jack Johnsons can get their nose's bled and their heads bruised, good for the health they say.Guess I reckon Ill remain unhealthy.
We were on the saloon deck one day when someone shouted a whale, we all rushed to the side in time to see a great rush of foam on the far horizon; whether it was a whale or no would be hard to say.
Flying fish are becoming more plentiful, and we cannot be far off the South American coast, we are in the tropics at anyrate.
A scandalous paper called the Euripidiean is published on board which flavours all its news more or less.
On Sunday we go to church and get a sermon from our sky pilot; after which some of the men are playing "House", for all they are worth, and the language abateth not, neither doth the gambler withhold his hand. Five minutes after service, yells of the ,"Legs eleven", clickety click, and the "Devils' own", can be heard all over the deck.