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Show OMI8SION EASILY PUT RIGHT Seaman's Suggestion of Substitute for Missing Initial. Tho skipper of a Beverly vessel on Grand Bank ran up alongside Skipper Skip-per Nat High of Marblohcad and so-cured so-cured a spare anchor, having lost his out In a galo. As usual In such cases, ho gave an order on tho shoresman owner and sailed away. A whllo after, on re-reading tho order, or-der, Skipper High exploded with: "Blast my eyes, men, but hero Is a devil of a fire. I didn't give him tho O., and my namo's Nat O. High!" "Don't worry nbout that, skipper," said Joe Vincent; "you can easily mako that all right. Just run down alongside nnd throw a hoop aboard." Boston Herald. |