Good Stories from the Magazines.
g. I 11 Cornhill " for March still stands first; as a caterer of anecdotes of ao amusing turn, Captain and Midshipmstb. Lieutenant Stuart Gordon, RN.. serves up some piquant varieties of " Sea Sauce." Here is one story out of many : - It was in Manila Harbour on a sultry day that a four-foot-eigh; midshipman came to join his first sea-going ship. Having duly reported himself to the captain - an offiaur of some six feet two inche?— the latter, literally looking down
upon the boy, snM :--•• Well, youngster, so you've come to join — eb? " 11 Yeg, if you please sir," meekly responded the inidsh'pman. " What 13 jfc— same old yarn, sent the fool of the family to sea— eh ? " " No, Bir, ingenuously replied the younger ; •• Oh no, ttfings have altered since your time, sir." •• Go away ? " roared the captain, and the niid^n^^ flaw below, as fa9fc as his little leg*"** could carry him.
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Manawatu Herald, 25 May 1899, Page 2
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156Good Stories from the Magazines. Manawatu Herald, 25 May 1899, Page 2
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