Another one decided that this method of imploring grace was worth imitating in the terrible crisis, so he rushed over and tried to get knee-room on the same Bible. Shoving his comrade aside, he managed to find a sacred anchorage and his supplication was, “Good Lawd Jesus, lemme see jes’ one green tree. Ah ain’t askin’ you to send me back home across dis yere big ocean till th’ war is done. Ah’ll stay right where I is put, but lemme see jes’ one green tree befo’ all dem German su’marines gobble dis pore niggah like Jonah an’ th’ whale.” Half an hour after the excitement was over, these devout passengers were shooting dice as busily as ever. There were negroes in another unit which we escorted into France. In wandering about the port, they came across some of their own race, black troopers from the French African colonies. Negotiations were opened to start a conversation going, but they could find no common language until one of the bunch produced a pair of dice. This, it seems, instantly broke down the barrier, and they soon had going as fine a little game of international craps as a man ever saw. Both sides whooped and haw-hawed until traffic was blocked and the police interfered. The convoy work in which the _Corsair_ took part during the four months from February 15 to May 30, 1918, comprised the following cruises, arranged in the form of a summary so as to make the record more complete and also to suggest the volume of the shipping which was entrusted to the protection of the yachts and destroyers in French waters: Feb. 16-20. (Westbound from Verdon.) Ships in convoy: _Eugene Grozos_, _Mont Pelvoux_, _Kalfarli_, _Lenape_, _Mariana_, _Lamertin_, _Mundiale_, _Bergdalen_, _Amphion_, _Northern_, _Joseph Cudahy_, _Stensland_, _Ariadne_, _Lady of Gaspe_, _Thibet_. (Vessels in escort.) _Corsair_, _Aphrodite_, _May_, _Regulus_ (F), _Aventurier_ (F). Feb. 25-28. (Westbound from Verdon.) Ships in convoy: _El Occidente_, _Anglo Saxon_, _Erny_, _Borinquen_, _Montanan_, _Aurelien Sholt_, _Appelus_, _Balti_, _Gusta Vigiland_. (Vessels in escort.) _Corsair_, _Aphrodite_, _May_, _Cassiope_ (F). March 7-10. (Westbound from Verdon.) Ships in convoy: _Luckenbach_, _St. Stephen_, _Millnock_, _Munares_, _Pearl Shell_, _Crecarne_, _Strathlone_, _Eschwick_, _Stellina_, _Anglo Mexican_, _Pennsylvanian_, _Hilda_, _Frances L. Kinney_, _Eagle_, _Felix Taussig_, _Dalblair_, _Camaguey_, _Oslang_. (Vessels in escort.) _Corsair_, _Aphrodite_, _Nokomis_, _Rivoli_ (F), _Cassiope_ (F). March 16-19. (Westbound from Verdon.) Ships in convoy: _Charlton Hall_, _Santiago_, _Mont Ventoux_, _Penmarch_, _Bay Douglas_, _New York_, _Dumfurland_, _Alf_, _Beaverton_, _Cantal_, _W. Mace_, _Bay Nyassa_, _Wachusett_, _El Orients_, _Woonsocket_, _Augvald_, _Ionian_. (Vessels in escort.) _Corsair_, _Aphrodite_, _Nokomis_, _Rivoli_ (F), _Marne_ (F). March 20-21. (Eastbound to Gironde.) Ships in convoy: _Mercury_, _Tenadores_.