THE ELASTIC ONE.
Captain Barry, however, can boat this, says a contemporary. Lecturing the other day, he is reported to hare said—"l was one of nine to near a grass girdle and lire on shell fish for several days, one of whom was a lady." There is a beautiful obscurity about this which takes my fancy. The vulgar and unimaginative would, no doubt, declare the obvious reading of the sentence is lhat one ot the days was a lady. To me, however, if, seems clear that the captain meant to hint that he had eaten a mermaid per diem for several days in succession, and that he wore a grass girdle to save her blushes. It was no doubt a similar feeling of modesty which caused him to wrap up his meaning so delicately. .^
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3594, 3 July 1880, Page 1
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134THE ELASTIC ONE. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3594, 3 July 1880, Page 1
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