Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1892 — His Weak Back. [ARTICLE]

His Weak Back.

The approaches to Cliincoteague Island, the Virginia gunning and fishing resort, are so shallow that it is sometimes necessary for passengers upon the little steamers that ply across Chi.ncoteague Sound to be carried ashore on men’s backs. This service was once very satisfactorily performed by one stout fellow for a party consisting of ex-Secretary Bayard, ex-Congressman Martin, and several other Delawareans weighing considerably more than 200 pounds each. Mr. Bayard was interested to learn that he who came to the rescue was a pensioner of the civil war, hut a little astonished at the information that the man drew his pension ondthe score of a weak back.