Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1899 — Knew What He Meant. [ARTICLE]

Knew What He Meant.

An ocean-going captain wm ao much given to using bed language that bls first mate made a bet with him that be could not do without swearing for a week. It went on all right for the first two or three days, until a bit of a squall came on and the sailors were up aloft doing their different duties. But their captain was displeased with their work. He stood it as long as he could and then he threw SfC/.-ap on the deck In a towering rag*. jumped on it and, shaking ids fist up at the. men with an angry scowl, he hissed: “Bless you, my dears—you know What I mean!”