Another shout will answer:
"Henry Ball, Henry Ball!"
Another voice:
"He knows it all!"
Still another voice:
"With his brass and gall!"
Mr. Ball has been guilty of the assumption of too much knowledge and he must take his medicine and grin.
The luckless newspaper man who is a passenger on a warship does not escape. He's meat for these flesh eaters. The Sun man mentioned one day that he was sorry he had missed a certain piece of news because it was something that would interest everybody, millions of people, in fact.
"How many millions of people, for example?" asked an innocent voice.
"Well, there are more than three millions of people in New York city alone," was the reply. It was a mistake. Scarcely a day has passed on the cruise when some one at the wardroom table does not say in the proper tone of voice and just at the psychological moment: