Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1892 — Miscalculation. [ARTICLE]

Miscalculation.

The Boston Globe prints a story which reminds one of the old saying about the shoemaker and his last. A Yarmouth captain had a small coasting schooner lying in port, and decided to give a lesson to painters in general by himself painting the vessel’s name on her bows. He could not reach high enough from the float, and dtd not care to put out a swinging stage, so he reached down over the side to do the lettering. After finishing the job on one bow, he went ashore to view his handiwork, and this is what met his gaze. —3 IO9YK