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Show OUTLIED DAD. The old sea captain, in brass buttons, but-tons, sat smoking comfortably by his fireside, when Jack, his sailor son, hurst in upon him. "Weather too rough," explained the son, "so we've put in for a day." "Too rough!" exclaimed Mr. Tar, with visions of his own daya on the briny. "Why, sir; I was once sailing round the Cape when a storm came-on, came-on, and It blow down tho mainmast and the mlzzcnmast was swept away, but we didn't even think o putting put-ting In!" "Well, you see," explained the son, "this storm was so bad it blew the anchors off the captain's buttons, took the paint off. the ship's bows and ' v "Stop!" cried the old man. "You do mc credit, Jack you do me credit!" Milwaukee News. - V. UM - .' ' J - - |