Horace Bixey, the doyen of the Mississippi pilots, is still at the wheel a® eighty-two, and tells this story as a temperance argument: “Once, I remember, al passenger of ours fell overboard. Wo fished him out with a boat-hook afteß he had been soaking on the bottom half an hour or so. We laid him limp an® sopping on the deck, and a steward ran for the whisky bottle. As I pried tha man’s mouth open to pour some whisky down his threat, his lips moved. A kin® of murmur eame from them. I put my ear down close to listen, and I heard the half-drowned wretch say: ‘Boll me on al bar] fust to git some o’ this water out. It’ll weaken the lieker.’ ”
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLII, Issue 26, 30 June 1909, Page 4
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