CATCHING THE BOAT.
ANlrishman wascoming down Montagestreet, Brooklyn, on his way to the Wall-street Ferry. Over his port shoulder hung v bag containing
about a bushel of potatoest, and in his starboard hand he carried a stout stick. Being under full sail, the momentum acquired in coming down the steep grade carried him nearly through the gateway, when, seeing a boat about ten feet from the dock, he shook out another reef, made an astonishing burst of speed, and jumped. Just as he reached the deck the potato-bag shifted heavily to port, and laid out a Broadstreet clerk who was smoking a cigar through a meerschaum holder, while the stick hit a rotund South-street merchant in the waistband, shutting him up like a jack-knife, and Pat himself assumed an involuntary devotional attitude. He was the first to recover his perpendicularity, and as he placed the bag in its normal position, he complacently remarked, "Be me sowl, but I got the boat anyhow !" "Got the boat!" screamed clerk, spitting the pieces of amber out of his mouth. "Why you confounded idiot, this boat is coming in !" And so she was.
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Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1498, 28 November 1874, Page 5 (Supplement)
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189CATCHING THE BOAT. Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1498, 28 November 1874, Page 5 (Supplement)
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