Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1883 — He Didn’t Want to Go to Either Place. [ARTICLE]

He Didn’t Want to Go to Either Place.

Old Capt. B , of Boothbay, one of the most experienced pilots on the Maine coast, and who has been around the world many times, recently lay upon what was called his deathbed. A minister who called thought he would read a chapter to him, so he called for a Bible. A black book, very much resembling a Bible, was handed the visi tor, who opened it and found it was a copy of the “Coast Pilot.” Upon learning that it was not the pilot the minister wanted, the sick njan exclaimed: “Iliat book will take* you all around this world, and jf it ain’t good to pilot you to heaven or ■ I don’t want to go to either place.” The clergyman retired, and the Captain still sails on the briny.— Boston Globe.