Show safe course an excellent reply was that once made by a yankee pilot to the owner of a mississippi river steamboat the boat was at new orleans and the yankee applied for the vacant post of pilot saying thai he thought he could give satisfaction provided they were lookin for a man about his size and build your size and build will do well enough said the owner surveying the lank form and rugged face 01 the applicant with some amusement but do yon know about the river where the en as are and so on well im pretty well acquainted with the river drawled the yankee with his eyes fixed on a stick ho was whittling but when you come to about the snags I 1 dont know exactly where they are I 1 must say dont know where tha snags are said the boat owner in a tone of dis enst then how do you expect to get a position as pilot on this river well sir said the yankee raising a pair of keen eyes from his whittling and meeting his questioners stem gaze with a whimsical smile 1 I may not know just where the snags are but yon can depend upon me for knowin whore they aint and where I 1 calculate to youths companion |