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Show JACK OUT OF HIS ELEMENT "Old Salt" at Least Proved to That Swab That He Was Not to Ee Trifled With. The sailors- are le.-iving the navy, it seems, and not a few are adventuring into the wilds of the western gram belt. A real old salt approached a farmer and asked to be "signed on." "Worked on a farm since you left the sea?" he was asked. "Y'es ; on one." "What did you do?" "Well. I helped with a craft of some sort. We hoisted wheat into her main hatch, and straw came out over her bows, while the other stuff poured into in-to bags hung onto her stern. A swab told me it was a thrashing machine, but I knew he was trying to bilk me, the only thrashing around there being what I did to the swab." |