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WOULD-BE SEA DOGS.

Sum of the captings on the Upper Ohio River
put on a heep of airs. To hear 'em git orf saler
lingo you'd spose they'd bin on the briny Deep for
a life time, when the fact is they haint tasted salt
water since they was infants, when they had to take
it for worms. Still they air good natered fellers,
and when they drink they take a dose big enuff for
a grown person.