The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 80a
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The barnacles are scraped off British men-of-war twice a year. The cost of scraping and repainting one of the larger ships is £4000. Jones: "?You seem rather amused over the idea of your wife wearing bloomers?" Smith: "You'd be amused yourself if you could have seen her when she tried to find something in her work-basket and emptied it in her lap." Moon hired a house in a village in New York State. Three months thereafter was born to him a son—a The same morning the agent called and collected the rent for the Moon betaking himself to the saloon, celebrated the increase in his family by getting drunk—becoming, in fact, a O. Wanting another glass on credit, he explained to the landlord, "You have just had my." Whereupon the barman chucked him out, and the patrol shortly after wards discovered Moon stationary, at greatest elongation, in inferior conjunction with the earth.