CAPTAIN HARRISON MAYCROFT

MOTHER RACHEL IV
Sea Level, N.C., July 27, 1998

...I never forget Mother Rachel was wearing a pair of army pants one time, and someone said 'Rachel, were you in the army?'...he says 'I tried not to be, but they took me during the war'... he said, I told that sergeant, when he asked me to urinate in a bottle, I said, 'all the way from here, sergeant?', and the sergeant said, 'GET OVER HERE!'....Rachel said 'I tried to stay out'....he says 'I walked in that room, and there's all those guys with no clothes on, and I say 'my, sergeant, smorgasbord!*', so they took me in the army someone says 'so where did you serve in the army Mother Rachel?'...he says 'New Britain Island in the South Seas'... 'that must have been awful duty-work there, Rachel'...he says 'oh, it wasn't too bad, there was five-thousand soldiers and only five of us girls'...


*smorgasbord = open sandwiches served with delicacies as hors-d'oeuvres or a buffet

CAPTAIN HARRISON MAYCROFT