"'You're a liar. You never saw the Cavalry.'
"I felt like punching him in the nose but did not do so. I wanted to ship as a horseman. I showed him my discharges. He said: 'They're faked. What did you do, desert, or were you kicked out?'
"I was getting sore, and answered: 'Deserted the Twelfth; kicked out of the Eleventh.'
"'What's your name?'
"'John Smith.'
"'You're a German.'
"This was too much for me, and I answered: 'You're a damned liar.' I saw my chances of shipping vanishing in smoke.
"The Jew grinned and rubbed his hands, and said: 'You're all right. Go into that room and get a card made out, and come back at two o'clock.'
"I received a card and went to a beanery across the street and had a wonderful meal of corned beef hash, muddy coffee and huge slices of bread, minus butter. This cost me fifteen cents.