A steamboat was stranded in tile. Mississippi, and the captain could not get her off. Kventually a hard-leaking fellow cv.no on board and said: "Captahi, I understand you want a pilot?" The ca-ptain asked: "Are you a pilot?" "Wql!, they call mc one." "Do you know where tho sandbanks aro?" "No, sir." "Well, how do you expect to take nm out of here if you don't know where they are?" "I know wheTe they ain't," was Ike reply. The famous "Roslyn" Writing fasti, obtainable from all Stationers and Storekeepers, at Cd. and Is. each.—Advt. It is stated that Gpsport,_ where t\ip America Cup challenger. Shamrock IV is beingsecretly built, that sho will I? tested as a centre-board'yacht in British Vi'atfirs. She will not have a step! hull, but a composite one, wi\h wood ss a factor. One clay in the lirili-h Mn-sntn a snide was recounting l« " 1 i(11 s■ knot nf vi~ilor« Ihe jjloiies of a baUi'if.l rcu'taiii', when a SiiiitlinYlil inrat ynli-sjiusii brekf die reverent lnish with the uni'-iioii: "Excuso mr, *>>\ but what would they feed a liloke like that ou—ham and egu.s or hay?" For flrnnrhUl C«n?h» nml toW*, .Wood*' Great l?ep»ermlijt Cure. Is. fid.*
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2125, 17 April 1914, Page 6
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198Page 6 Advertisements Column 3 Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2125, 17 April 1914, Page 6
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