OCR Text |
Show SHE KICKED THE WRONG SHIN Captain's Wife Finally Understood Why Her Warnings Had Not Reached Her Husband. Summer had come, and the sea captain's wife was accompanying her husband across the ocean. And it chanced also that tha owner's sister was making the trip. She was a strong-minded woman, and the wife of the captain, knowing the argumentative argumenta-tive nature of her husband, saw serious seri-ous trouble ahead. Wherefore, she warned him that, when at meals, if she thought he was approaching dangerous ground, she would give him a polite reminder by kicking him on the shins. But, alas, her reminders passed unheeded, un-heeded, though her kicks grew harder and harder. And one day she kicked more vigorously than ever. A shadow of pain passed across the face of the mate, who sat opposite her. "Oh, Mr. Bpddy,' she said, "I'm 60 sorry, but was that your shin?" "Yes, Mrs. Brown," replied the mate meekly; "it's been my shin all the voyage, ma'am!" |