STUCK TO HIS DUTY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9394, 15 March 1909, Page 7

STUCK TO HIS DUTY.

Some years ago the Yankee schooner Sally Ann, under the command of Oapfcain Spooner, was beating np the Connecticut river. Mr Comstock, the mate, was at his station forward. According to his notion of things, the schooner was getting too near certain mud-flats which lay along the port shore. The mate went aft to the captain, and with his hat cooked on one side, said “Oap’u Spooner, you’re getting a leetle too close to them flats. Hadn’t ye better go abeout?” The captain glared at him. “Mr Comstock, jest you go fcr’ard and tend to'your part of the skuner. I’ll tend to mine.” . Mr Comstock went forward in high dudgeon. “Boys,” he bellowed out, “see that that mud-hook’s all clear for letting go” ‘Aye, aye, sir” “Let go, then” he roared. Down went the anchor, ‘out rattled the chains, and like a flash the Sally Ann came luffing into the wind, and then brought np all standing. Mr Comstock walked aft and touched his hat. “Well, oap’n, my part of the skuner is to anchor.”