AN OMISSION.
* A windy, turgid -ocean, white-capped and terrible. A few sea-birds, skirling mournfully round, and on the crest of a 'limpid wave tho body of a sailor. Troubles are over. Jack. The sea you lived on all your life has gathered you t herself at last. Altogether a very fine picture, and it was appropriately titled “Flotsam ami Jet-vain.”
They wore from tlio. 'country, and unfamiliar wit'll tlio tragedies of tlio sea, but they stood in solemn silence before the 'picture for .some moments. “ Some! bin’ wrong ■about that," said I\Fr. Piggies ut last. “'J'liom artistic chaps oughtcr lie mere careful. There’s poor old h’lot Sam all right enough ; hut •where’s Jet-Sam—ch? Mo‘s fergot to put ’im in.” 'Guest (trying in vain to ent his roast beef): “Waiter, I can’t do anything with this beef! lining mo something dsn instead.” Waiter: “Sorry, sir, but I can’t toko it back yon’vo bent it!”
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Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3872, 11 May 1906, Page 2 (Supplement)
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153AN OMISSION. Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3872, 11 May 1906, Page 2 (Supplement)
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