ANECDOTES OF SAILORS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 30, 4 February 1905, Page 11

ANECDOTES OF SAILORS.

j TOLD BY JACK. c An old sailor once span the foilawint " yarn:— g ''A spanking lireeze was driving tlie snip, z ererythln;: drawing alow and aloft, when 1 the cry. 'Man overboard: , startled the stop's i? company. The captain came on deck, and, r looting over the taffrsil at the rapldly--9 receding object, and observing the good * speed tie ship was making, said "Poor fellow! poor frflcnr! I'm sorry for him. but we mnst rake advantage of this breeze r in the Interest of the owners.' Just then a c sailor, who had been on the look out. j shouted ont: 'Captain, It isn't a man. It's a ;- hog!' 'Aha!' said the captain, "hard a port. c Back the mainyanl! Clear away the boat, ]' and save that hog!' " t ] HIS LOSDSHIP'S CHAPtiAIS. a When Lord Clanearry was captain of a 0 maa-of-Trar fa 1724, and was cruising off the coast of Gninea, his lieutenant (a c Scotch Presbyterian) came hastily into the •t cabin and told his lordship that the chaplain was dead, and, wnat was worse in ois :e eye«, ac died a Roman CatnoUc. Lord Ciaad carry replied that oe was very glad to aear « It * "Hoots, a*, my lord:" exclaimed tas is offlcer. ""What, are ye slad that yer ebapiy lain died a Pawpist?" "Tea, ,, aiMWftred ai» leedahip. "for he (.. is the first sea p»ts«m I ever isaew tka* »f I»i lay, xtiisiM at m: , , ,~