Two fellows meet in Florida. One says: ’I went fishing last week and caught a herring that weighed 450 pounds. The other guy looks at him and says: ’I too was fishing last week, and I didn’t catch anything, but I pulled up the hook, and standing on the hook was a lantern from an old ship. God only knows how long it was lying in the
mud, because it was covered with seaweed and barnacles. I washed it the best I could and polished it, and on the bottom was a scripted engraving, ’Manufactured 1467’.
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