Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1892 — A Smart Yankee Skipper. [ARTICLE]

A Smart Yankee Skipper.

A writer in the Nautical Magazine tells a story of how a Yankee skipper contrived to free his ship from rats. While he lay in port he discovered that one of the British ships then in the harbor had ’among her cargo a great quantity of cheese. He therelore found an excuse for hauling over to her and mooring his own .packet alongside. The next step was to procure a plank, smear it well with red herrings, and place it so as to lead through one of the ports on board the Englishman. The immediate result was a wholesale emigration of the rats from the American ship’s hold to the cheese-laden vessel alongside.—Chambers’ Journal.