On board one of the Forth pleasure st<‘ainers, which have to l>e built with exceedingly light draught to get over the frequent shallows of the river, a Yankee tourist remarked to t he captain, a shrewd old Scotsman, “I guess, skipper, that you think nothing of steaming across a meadow’ when there’s been a heavy fall of dew.” “That’s so,” replied the captain, “though occasionally we ba'e tae send a man ahead wi’ a w abTing-can.’*
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXV, Issue 12, 23 September 1905, Page 18
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76Untitled New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXV, Issue 12, 23 September 1905, Page 18
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