CARRIED OUT INSTRUCTIONS.
Every sailor has his story of the mis-1 ( takes which " landlubbers " make over I. the names of things at sea, which always I j seem to be exactly the opposite of what they are on land. A new boy had come on hoard a West j India ship, upon which a painter had also been employed to paint the ship's I side. The painter was at work upon a staging suspended under I lie ship's I j ,tern. The captain, who had just got into a boat alongside, called out to the new boy. who stood leaning over the rail, "Let go the painter!" Everybody should know that a boat's painter is the rope which makes it fast, hut this boy did not know it. .Tie ran aft and let go the ropes by which the painter's staging was held. Meantime the captain was wearied with waiting to be cast off. "Vou rascal!" he called, "whv don'! | vmi let I'n the painter!" •■U,,\, '„,„„.. sir." said the bry briskly; "lie's gone—pots, brashes, ami all!"
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 166, 4 July 1908, Page 3
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176CARRIED OUT INSTRUCTIONS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 166, 4 July 1908, Page 3
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