HARD-BOILED?

NZ Truth, Issue 1181, 19 July 1928, Page 7

HARD-BOILED?

~^— — ♦ ; : '' ' ■ ' ' Yankee Sailors Toe The Line I (From "N.Z. Truth's" Christchurch Hep.) j V Here to-day and gone to.-morrow. It is a good philosophy for the sailorman, but there are two Yankee seamen who will remember ' ' their visit to the port of Lyttelton. WHEN Lloyd D. Smith and Sutton Myers finished work for the day on their ship, they, -went ashore. Lyttelton did, not look inviting, so they slipped through the tunnel and a descended on Christchurch. ' Arrived 5 m the city, they made the j acquaintance of two girls — and it was high jinks for the quartet for the. restof the evening. ■ ■ : I The Yankee boys had made a deep - impression, and, of course, they had to live up to the reputation they inspired • as two really hard-boiled eggs. " l ' 1 With a great show of bravado and swank, they swept into Alex-' i p - ander Wilson's restaurant A when I the night was well advanced and : called for a feed, for-four. — But after the quartet had takeil t their departure, the restaurant propriec tor received a Shock. Sundry articles t of cutlery were missing. HE WAS "REAL SORRY" ' Out into the street shot the (hash-. ' house staff and trailed the Yankee. ' sailors, m whose possession the miss^ , ing property was found. !. : - Well, it was a flat ending to whafi^ ' had been a most hilarious, hard-boiled* ■ evening. • . /", There was nothing hard-boiled about. Smith and Myers when they lined up before Magistrate E... D. Mosley- next morning. In broad, nasal accent they admitted their guilt.. ' 4 "Well, and what have you to IsajT for yourselves?" demanded the S.M;. , "We were jest making fools of ( ourselves, but had no intension of stealing the praperty," explained Smith. - i "That's so, your worship. I'm real. [ sorry it happened," supplemented: - •■ Myers. ; • • ;■ . . '■ The Bench: "Weil you will be con-- . victed and fined 20 shillings each,- indefault 24 hours' imprisonment." '. .'; . And the two Tanks left the dock, : ' looking as though they realized that being real hard-boiled guys has many disadvantages, after all. . r IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII