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Show A CHANCE TO GROW. New Englander's 'Comment on Future of Schooner. Sim Tarbox lives in a New England, seaport town. He is as simple as he is big and strong, his muscular development develop-ment being the result of years of labor la-bor around ice houses and on ice wagons. One day when business was quiet Sim wandered away from his ice wagon wag-on and sat down on the stringpiece of a pier to admire a shapely three-masted three-masted schooner tied up ' alongside. uiauuaili1 Sim s curiosity was aroused." Espying the captain seated near his cabin, Sim observed: "I say, skipper, thet's a mighty fine boat ye got thaer." "Yes," responded the captain, "she's a pretty good boat." After a silence of several minutes Sim again broke out: "I say, skipper, how old be she?" "Oh," answered the captain, "about six years, I guess." "Gee!" said Sim, after what appeared ap-peared to be deep reflection and speaking speak-ing in his deliberate fashion, as his eyes again swept over the schooner "won't she be a highster 'fore she'; twenty!" |