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Gentleman Gets Yacht Gentleman Meets Girl Gentleman Gets Girl Gentleman Loses Yacht |
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Mr. Hardy Lee's Meditations Mr. Hardy Lee, On coming into his fortune, wonders how he shall spend it. |
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A Brilliant Idea 'By Jove, I can keep a Yacht!' |
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Mr. Lee Announces His Plan at Uncle Ned's 'Won't it be Jolly!' 'A yacht! How perfectly magnificent!' 'You'll be sure to be drowned, child!' 'I should think the money might be more profitably expended on some charitable object.' 'You will find it much more expensive, Sir, than you anticipate.' |
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A Great Man Consulted Builder: 'You don't want her sloop-rigged more'n you want water in your boots.' |
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Mr. Lee has a Few Friends (who really know what a boat is) To Look At Her 'I'd ha' given her a little more dead-rise.' 'Bearing ought to be higher, Lee!' 'She'll drift off to leeward, close hauled like an old crab!' 'Too full in the counter, Lee, my boy; she'll carry dead-dead water from the Cape to Liverpool.' |
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The Christening 'Now then, Miss Goldmore! just below the rail!' Small Boy in Background: 'My eye Mickey! if the gal ain't agoin' to fire the rum-bottle at the cove with mustarshers!' |
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Nautical and Nauseating Mr. Lee: 'Nice breeze!' Graves:'Ay, ay, Sir! she begins to feel it now!' Voice from the Lee Rail: 'So do I, by Jove.' |
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A New York Lady Edified Young Lady from New York: 'Well, Captain Graves, I can't see now, how that little card makes teh rudder turn.' |
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Taking a Tender in Tow 'Yes, do you say yes, dearest? then I'm --- now then, what the devil are you after?' 'Fore-peak-halliards, please, Sir!' |
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Melancholy Termination of this Season's Boating Wedding Guest: 'Well, old Skip! this puts your pipe out! He can't go a wife and a yacht too, you know!' Ancient: Mariner: 'You be derned, young 'and spike! can't they live abroad!' |