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- Boat Bailer, 1808-1809 - Rain and seepage can endanger small wooden boats on the water -- a bailer like this helped keep them afloat. Reputedly, John Denson, nicknamed Johnny Trout by his friend Daniel Webster, made this bailer in the early 1800s. Trout and Webster occasionally fished together, and Webster, according to stories passed down, sometimes used this bailer.
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Boat Bailer, 1808-1809
Rain and seepage can endanger small wooden boats on the water -- a bailer like this helped keep them afloat. Reputedly, John Denson, nicknamed Johnny Trout by his friend Daniel Webster, made this bailer in the early 1800s. Trout and Webster occasionally fished together, and Webster, according to stories passed down, sometimes used this bailer.