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 began to sing, "Yes, Sir, She's My Baby," while the other two, one of whom was the person recognized by the three artists as the most objectionable of all, loudly praised the Freedom of the Seas. He delivered himself of a short oration upon this subject.

"Yes, sir; it's just as you say, the folks at home don't realize that all they got to do, if they don't like Prohibition, is to step on a boat. My case, for instance; why, it's been so long since I had what you might call a regular honest-to-goodness drink I'd about forgot there was such a thing! The law is all right on land—I voted for it myself—but it's a grand thing the ocean belongs to everybody. I'd 'a' taken a trip to Europe long ago if I'd 'a' realized how much freedom there was in it. And look how Prohibition habits get into a man, though;—it's wonderful! After I introduced myself to ole Doc Taylor yonder, this afternoon, and met you two other gentlemen, what's the first thing we do? Why, Doc says he's got some stuff in his cabin, and just out o' habit, what'd we do? Why, sneaked down there with him just the way we would at home, and sat pourin' it out kind of guilty-like until we happened to remember we weren't doin' anything against the law at all and there was an open bar up here where a man had a right to do as he's a