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Show Heaving the Lead. The steamer Fanny was coming down the Upper Mississippi, loaded with pig-lead. As she was going over a shoal place, the pilot gave the signal to heave tho load. The only man fur ward at the 1 thin was a green Irishman. ! "Why don't yon heave the lend?" "Is ii to bravo the lead, your honor'.' Whore to'.'" j "Overboard, jvu blockhead!" The Irishman snatched up one of the pigs of lead and threw it overboard; the mate in endeavoring to prevent him, lost his balance, and fell into the river. The Captain, running to the edge of j the divk, asked: "Why don't you i heave the lead, and sing out how much water there is?" "The lead is heaved, your honor," said Pat, "and the mate's cone down to e how much water there " |