Show A smart yankee kankeo skipper A writer in the nautical magazine tells telis a story of how a yankee skipper shipper contrived to free his ship from froin rats while ho he lay in port he discovered that one of the british ships then in the harbor had among her cargo a great quantity of cheese lie ile thereupon found an excuse for ha hauling tiling over to her ard and mooring his own packet alongside the next step was to procure a plank smear ii it well with an odoriferous prep arat aon of red herrings and place it so as to lead through one of the ports on board the englishman r tho immediate result was a wholesale chirri emigration altion of the rats from the american hold to the cheese laden vessel along alon aide |