A LOVER'S DELICACY.
Perhaps the most curiahs rtory of any vessel named after a sweetheart is told of a Uny craft owned by .the good elder of a little fishing village, who for fifty years had persistently courted a shy maiden by the name of Rhoda Baker. So shy w-as she that often wnen he called she TvouJd not even see nlin . He would find the sitting-room empty. and the chair from v.-hich she- had fled at the very moment of her "Come In" yet rocking br tDC- WIDdOXV. At length Rhoda died, still a sp i ns t er , and ncr bereaved lover desired to hoaoor her memory by begtowiag fier nam£ upon njs boa t . Kut he encountered a difficulty. Blioaa's penatesiDß could not be asked, ana since I" life she had never accepted him, was it fcir or courteous to her to dispense with it? ile solved this problem ot chivalry, md avoided tUe least shadow »t presumption b.v naming the resrel. and painting the name in coaspiccous biaok lettere on toe stern— •'Hliodp." WenW-i't."
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 36, 11 February 1905, Page 10
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178A LOVER'S DELICACY. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 36, 11 February 1905, Page 10
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