For the Gander

One fine May morning in 1915, the German submarine U-20, cruising off the Irish coast released a. slender steel projectile into the chill Atlantic. The projectile coursed onward like a speeding shark, nestled against a tender leviathan, and the Lusitania went to the bottom.

One cloudy morning in 1916, the craggy rocks off the Jutland coast tickled the belly of the U20 and its ribs caved in.

One fine August morning in 1925, the Danish Admiralty came to a decision: a keg of indigestible dynamite is to be placed in the cast iron belly of the U20 so that the little weasel of the sea may sink in agony and lie far down in the green waters with the other little devils of the deep. No more need man-made leviathans fear death from its speeding projectiles nor its own broken and scaly body.