Show EXAMPLE OF T R S NERVE prejudiced individual eagerly swallowed story concerning states man ho he disliked f just at tho the entrance of portland harbor not tar far from the tip of cape elizabeth Is a dreaded ledge known as rock it la is carefully buoyed by the government and for the convenience conven lenco of pilots Is identified by marking the buoy with tho the initials initial sot of the ledges name my friend a practical joker of considerable activity was coming out of portland one evening on the gov dingley and fell into conversation with a ge gentleman gleman whose talk was of politics and whose hatred of mr roosevelt and all his works was revealed as aa acuto acute and vivid As the steamer churned on toward the mouth of the bay it occurred to my friend to make use of the situation wherefore he said do you know the nerviest ner thing the colonel did when he was president no said the interlocutor but id believe anything what do you call the nerviest ner thing he be did 1 11 I think said the first speaker that it took more gall to paint the governments channel buoys with his initials than anything else in his career you dont mean that he be did thata that gasped the other go ile he has crust enough but beyond belief I 1 just wait was all the other said were just turning one of those buoys now look at it and there just over the side was a huge can buoy brazenly marked ln in letters several feet high T R speechless with emotion and wrath the gentleman sought his cabin vowing to write a letter to the editor I 1 wonder it if he really did it catchall catch all al in lowell courier citizen |