Holy Joe

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Red, Woolly, Punk and a saturnine-faced Texan whose addiction to unique expletives of an unconventional nature had secured for him the sobriquet of "Holy Joe."

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“Holy Joe!” exclaimed the hobo looking up with sudden interest, “say, how long ago did he leave?”

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"Holy Joe" was the name given the Chaplain.

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And it doesn't become you to call the parson a Holy Joe.

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My general reputation up to this moment in the ship was that of a simple-minded Irish lad, who was a religious fanatic, a sort of sky pilot or "Holy Joe."

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