A Rough Old Captain, in a storm when the terrified passengers persuaded him to petition to Heaven for a cessation of the tempest, preferred the following brief request: "O, Lord! I haven't been in the habit of calling upon thee often; and if you'll shift the wind from son 'west to a little more son' I won't trouble you again. "
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