SO SHE SUPPOSED.
It was on hoard an outgoing Atlantic steamer, and the lady w.i.s on her first voyage. "What's the nhip stopping for?" she demanded of the first officer. "To lot the pilot off, ma'am." "To let the pilot off! - ' in shrill incredulity. "Do you mean that he doosn'l '.toss the ocean and direct, the course?" •'1 moan precisely that, ma'am." The lady pondered a moment, and then a bright idea .struck her: "I suppose ho .sets the rudder pointing in the right d'roct'on before lie leaves?"
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 274, 11 May 1917, Page 2 (Supplement)
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88SO SHE SUPPOSED. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 274, 11 May 1917, Page 2 (Supplement)
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