Excerpt from All in the Same Boat I like this Captain Julius in our Scripture lesson. I can hear his voice ringing above the tumult of the Mediterranean storm -back to the decks Back to the decks, every man of you You ensign, there, - you with the sword, -cut that rope Cast that life-boat loose Let no man leave this ship It happened in the dark, you know. The sailors mutinied. They stole the life boat. They were in the act of lowering it into the sea when they were apprehended. They were going to be saved no matter who else perished. Every man for himself What cared they for the soldiers and the prisoners on board, so long as they saved their own skins? And then Captain Julius intervened Set that life-boat adrift Back to your posts, ev ery sneaking, shirking, skulking man of you If this ship ride the storm, all of us shall be saved together If she go to the bottom, all of us shall take the death-plunge together We are all in the same boat, and in the same boat all shall remain If you care to do it you may turn this fine sea story into a parable. The storm is the Great War. So far as we, personally, are con cerned, the ship that is carrying us through the storm is the United States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.