Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the Right Thing in the Right Way

by William Pittenger

53. AMUSING BLUNDER

One of the passengers on board the ill-fated "Metis" at the time of the disaster was an exceedingly nervous man, who, while floating in the water, imagined how his friends would acquaint his wife of his fate. Saved at last, he rushed to the telegraph office and sent this message: "Dear P——, I am saved. Break it gently to my wife."