"British, ships, always. carry axes ike that," replied that lone passenger. "It'S an old historic custom they have, specially, this line." fow come!
Well, you see this Is the Prince Line, and the three feathers which you see on the funnel and the axe all have to do with the name,"
'"Whadda yer mean?"
"it was during one, of the wars with the French some hundreds of years ago,"
"Yeah, TI know, You Limles were always fighting the French."
Well, in one of the fights the King of Bohomin took part. His crest was three ostrich feathers, and the motto Ich Dien.'"
"What's that_mean?"
"It means 'My deal'!
"They played cards in them days dia they?"
"yes. And this King of Bohemia, who was blind, was killed with an axe, and the then Prince of Wales took the feathers for his crest, "Yeah! Jest like you Limies, Aghting a blind man and then stealing his feathers."
He walked off and left the lone passenger with the Impression that something had misfired, somewhere, A Rilooe Island Red hen acts as guardian to four Manx kittens when their mother is away, and even when she is not, at Manor Farm, Botley, Hampshire, the home of Mrs,
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