A Qualified Pilot
0 h9 Y% N: H$ P' V7 G* Y& `. | The captain of a small ship had to go along a rocky coast, but he was unfamiliar with it, so he tried to find a qualified pilot to guide him. He went ashore in one of the small ports, and a local fisherman pretended that he was a pilot because he needed some money. The captain took him on board and asked him where to steer the ship.
. @. k8 ?6 m" R5 | \ After half an hour the captain began to suspect that the fisherman did not really know what he was doing and where he was going.6 g6 S T& }" \6 h9 \
“Are you sure you are a qualified pilot?” he asked.! q# B- a$ ^# m
“Oh, yes,” answered the fisherman. “I know every rock on this part of the coast.”
/ M" C6 k" R/ P# m" n Suddenly there was a terrible crash from under the ship. At once the fisherman added, “And that’s one of them.” |