Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1889 — A “Painter” Let Go. [ARTICLE]

A “Painter” Let Go.

Youth's C. mpanion. Every sailor has his story of the mistake whieli “landlubbers” make over the names of things at sea, which always seem to be exactly the opposite of what they are on land. A sheet, for instance, instead of being something broad, like a sheet of cloth or a sheet of water, is nothing bat a rope. A new boy had come on board a West India ship, upon which a painter had also been employed to paint the ship’s side. The painter was at work upon a stag, ing suspended under the ship’s sternThe captain, who had just got into a boat alongside, called out to the new boy, who stood leaning over the rail. “Let go the paintor!” Everybody should know that a boat’s painter is the rope which makes it fast, but this boy did not know it He ran aft and let go the ropes by which the painter’s stage was held. Meantime the captain wearied with waiting to be cast off. “You rascal!” he called, “why don’t you let go the — “He’s gone, sir,” said the boy. briskly! “he’s gone—pots, brushes and all!”