"I happened to be in Cork for a few hours on my way through," he said. "We are not allowed to visit there, you know, for fear that we may be tempted to beat up a few Sinn Feiners; but if we are marooned there waiting for a connexion there is nothing against our strolling about the town. Well, just at one end of the main bridge across the River Lee, they have the Stars and Stripes and the Union Jack floating side by side from the top of one of the iron poles of the electric car line. I don't know whose idea it was, except that the Sinn Feiners had nothing to do with it. Now the ordinary way to have handled them would have been to bend each flag to separate halyards, and to hoist and lower independently. But some man with a head on his shoulders (possibly he had been a sailor) evidently had the run of the show, and what had been done was this: Taking two crosspieces, he had bent the flags to the two lines joining their ends. Then a single halyard, rigged to run over a block to the upper crosspiece, hoisted and lowered the two flags, always side by side, at one operation. Well, now, looking at that, it chanced that I seemed to see something more than a very neat little contrivance for saving time in handling a couple of squares of coloured bunting. It seemed to me that it stood for a sort of symbol of the fact that the Stars and Stripes and the Union Jack are being rigged to fly together for a good many years; and that they aren't going to be able to lower one without bringing down the other." I do not know how many of the men of the American ships at the Irish bases have seen that particular little "bunting hoist," but I do know that the sentiment my young submarine friend read into it finds an echo in the breast of practically every one of them. PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED. LONDON AND BECCLES, ENGLAND. Transcriber's notes: The following is a list of changes made to the original. The first line is the original line, the second the corrected one. for'rard, wait till there was an interval in both for'ard, wait till there was an interval in both puttin' that blinkin' pyrit down to Davy Jones."' puttin' that blinkin' pyrit down to Davy Jones."'" than they had been right along up to them. We than they had been right along up to then. We _Emden_ or _Konigsberg_. Just which it was we _Emden_ or _Königsberg_. Just which it was we a shell-hole in the fo'c'sl'e deck, through which a shell-hole in the fo'c'sle deck, through which with the _Konigsberg_ turning up at any moment, with the _Königsberg_ turning up at any moment, had charge of in the _Emden_ show Von Müller in had charge of in the _Emden_ shows Von Müller in "It's fair," he admitted grudingly, "only fair. "It's fair," he admitted grudgingly, "only fair.