Father Goose Page #3

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- I said go away.

- You're still not coming through.

There's a button on

the microphone,

you have to press it down

while you're speaking.

Can you hear me now?

That's better. You'll find

some charts there, Walter,

identifying enemy ships and aircraft.

Study them, will you?

Have you seen anything yet?

Any planes or ships?

- Yeah, some planes.

- Ours or theirs?

Kind of depends which side

you're on, doesn't it?

Walter, news has just

come through that

the Japanese took

Singapore this morning.

Frank, what keeps them from

taking Walter Eckland?

We've 32 spotters spread

over 3,000 islands.

So you see the odds are in our

favour that you'll never be found.

Our favour? You're not stuck out

in the middle of nowhere, I am.

- Now when do I get off?

- As soon as we've found a replacement.

Meantime, be good enough

to keep in touch, Walter.

Oh, and I am sorry about your boat.

I really am.

Is Big Bad Wolf really sorry?

Because if he is,

Big Bad Wolf and Little Bo Peep

can do something for Mother Goose.

They can go...

I don't really

blame him, do you?

I can't see what we've accomplished.

I don't think he'll report in.

You can lead a horse to water,

but can you make it drink?

When he gets thirsty enough,

he'll drink, Stebbings.

He'll drink.

Frank, can you hear me?

Frank?

- Loud and clear. What is it?

- Where'd those men put the whiskey?

I've looked all over this dump.

Did they keep it for themselves?

Seamen of His Majesty's Navy?

You must be joking.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where is it?

Well, I can imagine

how dull it must get

for someone left all alone on

a small island, so I decided...

All right.

Get to the bad news.

I decided to liven things up a bit by

making a fun and game thing out of it.

What sort of fun and games?

I had my men hide all the

bottles around the island.

In very unlikely places. You'd

never find them by yourself.

The ground rules are simple.

You report an enemy ship

or plane movement

and I tell you where the bottles are.

One report, one bottle.

Hold it a minute, Frank. I hear

a flight going over right now.

Just a minute while

I get binoculars.

Oh yes. There's six, seven,

eight of them heading south.

They're... Nakajima 97s.

But just a minute while I

verify that on the chart.

Walter, there is another

rule attached to this.

It has to be a confirmed report.

- Confirmed how?

- By other spotters along the line.

Now just tell me what all those

planes were that you saw.

Frank? Frank. Frank.

Frank, wake up, Frank.

Frank?

Briar Patch here, Mother Goose.

Bo Peep speaking.

- Briar Patch? That's a new one, isn't it?

- We've moved.

- Are you at Kings Point already?

- Listen, you must use the code names.

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