DELAYING HIS PROGRESS.
At one tame, ■within the memory of persons now living, the Clyde was only navigable near Glasgow for very small vessels of a very light draught. A skipper, navigating his way up, stuck in the mud oear Renfrew, and was not sparing in strong language at the delay to which he was subjected. While waiting for the rise of the tide he spied a young girl approaching the river with a pail to fetch some water. This was too much for the poor skipper, so, leaning over the bulwarks of his vessel, he thus addressed the lassie — "Noo, ye limmei, gin ye tak' ac dra-p o fwater oot o' here till I get afloat again, I'll crack yer heid wi' a boathook."
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Evening Post, Volume LIX, Issue 112, 12 May 1900, Page 2 (Supplement)
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125DELAYING HIS PROGRESS. Evening Post, Volume LIX, Issue 112, 12 May 1900, Page 2 (Supplement)
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