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Show NAMED IN ODD MANNER. Origin of "Pint Judy Pint" on Rhode Island Shore. Point Judith. Rhode Islnnd. is known to the natives or that neighborhood neigh-borhood as "Pint Judy pint." Onco upon a time, tho story goes, nn old sea captain of Nantucket or there-anoutR there-anoutR took lils wiro vv'lth him upon a io)ago along tho coast and, being enveloped in a fog. ho made her lookout. look-out. After awhile tho woman piped out, "Land!" "Whar away?" bellowed her lord. "Why, right over there, Just the other side of all those ropes," she answered, excitedly. "T'other sldo o' flldlcstlcks',v roared tho captain. "Can't you tell me In straight talk, B whar away?" Now It happened that the captain's wife was unacquainted 1 with nautical terma nnd while she I could do many useful things she could I no more have boxed tho compass than ..4lJ 1 ' she could hnve flown. So the captain -f W snouted to her: "Pint, Judy' Pint!" ' Then Judy "plnlod" nnd the shore sho I had dlFcovered nnd Indicated was ever B afterward known as Pint Judy pint. I |