By this time our ship was coming round past the broadside. The enemy had been aware of our troubles. He had evidently observed the effect of his shell fire and thought he had us groggy when we tacked. But between his speed s forward and our change of course his succeeding shells were now dropping beyond us. Why he did not give us a torpedo on the broadside I do not know, unless he felt so sure of us he thought to save this costly weapon.

I was on the bridge again, after ordering the removal of TO Captain Folger, Hawkins, and Macy to the captain's apartments for any medical attention that might be offered. Likewise the wounded and dead of the gun crew were borne to my own rooms.

By this time our forward gun had come into play, and Is I bore the ship down directly on the submarine. Our second shot was a direct hit. Thank God, our luck had changed! A yell went up from the gun crew as the periscope and part of the enemy's upper works went overboard. That evened matters somewhat. At any rate he could not 20 dive now and escape; it was to be a fight to the finish somebody's finish!

Our fifth shot put his forward gun out of commission. The tide had turned.

We were closing in on him, and the enemy realized his 25 danger. My intention was to ram him if we failed to get a shot home; so I rang the engine room for all possible speed ahead. But I was still aware of the submarine's fangs. His stern gun and his torpedo tubes were yet active. A white trail curled past us uncomfortably close. He was 30 not sparing torpedoes now. But we were closing in, not three hundred yards from him. Twenty seconds more and one of us would be down-maybe both.

A shot took off the other section of his scant upper works. One of his cleaned out our wireless.

We were all but on him now, too close to bring our gun to bear. Our last shot had either seriously crippled the enemy or thrown terror into his crew. "Kamerad!"s "Kamerad!" came huskily from a score of throats; but their brotherly petition came too late. Before I could sheer the Argo off we cut through the submarine diagonally. Her shell crumpled under the impact of our weight and speed, and there was scarcely a tremor on the bridge of our 10 stanch ship.

Sailing the Seas.

1. The young man who relates this story was first mate on a vessel laden with munitions and bound for France, during the World War. Because of engine trouble the Argo had to drop out of the convoy of ships of which she was a member. Then the German submarine attacked.

2. What in the story suggests its recency?

I FIND A FOOTPRINT

BY DANIEL DEFOE

This section of Robinson Crusoe relates a thrilling experience he had, long after his landing on the island.

OU are to understand that now I had, as I may call it,

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two plantations in the island; one, my little fortification or tent with the wall about it, under the rock, with the cave behind me, which by this time I had enlarged into several apartments or caves, one within another. One 5 of these, which was the driest and largest and had a door

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out beyond my wall or fortification beyond where my wall joined to the rock was all filled up with large earthen pots and with fourteen or fifteen great baskets which would hold five or six bushels each, 5 where I laid up my stores of provision, especially my corn some in the ear, cut off short from the straw, and the other rubbed out with my hand.

As for my wall, made as before with long stakes or piles, those piles grew all like trees and were by this time grown 10 SO big and spread so very much, that there was not the least appearance to anyone's view of any habitation behind

them.

Near this dwelling of mine, but a little farther within the land and upon lower ground, lay my two pieces of 15 cornland, which I kept duly cultivated and sowed and which duly yielded me their harvest in its season; and whenever I had occasion for more corn, I had more land adjoining, as fit as that.

Besides this, I had my country seat, and I had now a 20 tolerable plantation there also; for first, I had my little bower, as I called it, which I kept in repair; that is to say, I kept the hedge which circled it in, constantly fitted up to its usual height, the ladder standing always in the inside; I kept the trees, which at first were no more than stakes 25 but were now grown very firm and tall, always cut, so that they might spread and grow thick and wild and make the more agreeable shade - which they did effectually, to my mind.

In the middle of this I had my tent always standing, being 30 a piece of a sail spread over poles set up for that purpose,

and which never wanted any repair or renewing; and under this I had made me a couch with the skins of

creatures I had killed, and with other soft things, and a blanket laid on them such as belonged to our sea bedding which I had saved, and a great watch coat to cover me; and here, whenever I had occasion to be absent from my seat, I took up my country habitation.

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Adjoining to this I had my inclosures for my cattle, that is to say, my goats; and as I had taken an inconceivable deal of pains to fence and inclose this ground, so I was so uneasy to see it kept entire, lest the goats should break through, that I never left off till with infinite labor I had stuck the outside of the hedge so full of small stakes, and so near to one another, that it was rather a pale than a hedge and there was scarce room to put a hand through between them, which afterwards, when those stakes grew (as they all did in the next rainy season), made the inclosure 15 strong like a wall—indeed stronger than any wall. This will testify for me that I was not idle and that I spared no pains to bring to pass whatever appeared necessary for my comfortable support.

In this place also I had my grapes growing, which I 20 principally depended on for my winter store of raisins and which I never failed to preserve very carefully as the best and most agreeable dainty of my whole diet; and indeed they were not agreeable only, but medicinal, wholesome, nourishing, and refreshing to the last degree.

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As this was also about halfway between my other habitation and the place where I had laid up my boat, I generally stayed and lay here in my way thither; for I used frequently to visit my boat and I kept all things about or belonging to her in very good order; sometimes I went 30 out in her to divert myself, but no more hazardous voyages would I go, scarcely ever above a stone's cast or two

from the shore, I was so apprehensive of being hurried out of my knowledge again by the currents or winds or any other accident. But now I come to a new scene of my life.

5 It happened one day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen on the sand. I stood like one thunderstruck or as if I had seen an apparition; I listened, I looked round me, 10 I could hear nothing nor see anything; I went up the shore and down the shore, but it was all one, I could see no other impression but that one. I went to it again to see if there were any more and to observe if it might not be my fancy; but there was no room for that, for there was exactly the Is print of a foot-toes, heel, and every part of a foot; how it came thither I knew not nor could in the least imagine.

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But after innumerable fluttering thoughts, like a man perfectly confused and out of myself, I came home to my fortification, not feeling, as we say, the ground I went on, but terrified to the last degree, looking behind me at every two or three steps, mistaking every bush and tree, and fancying every stump at a distance to be a man.

When I came, to my castle (for so I think I called it ever after this) I fled into it like one pursued; whether I 25 went over by the ladder, as first contrived, or went in at the hole in the rock which I had called a door, I cannot remember; no, nor could I remember the next morning; for never frightened hare fled to cover, or fox to earth, with more terror of mind than I to this retreat.

30 I slept none that night; the farther I was from the occasion of my fright the greater my apprehensions were; which is something contrary to the nature of such things and