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Submitted by stevenl on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 11:43am.

According to James McCurdy's By Juan de Fuca Straits, you shouldn't have been surprised if you were in Port Townsend in 1890 and saw a stranger with towel around his neck and shaving lather on his face come flying down Water Street. It seems that the town barber, Sebastian by name, was an eccentric who had an unpleasant habit of holding his shiny razor above a customer's Adam's apple and solemnly inquiring:

"Are you prepared to meet your God?"

Sebastian continued this religious exhortation until one day he promised the town he would walk on water. When he failed, his spirit was broken. He stayed around town for a few days more and then quietly dropped out of sight forever.

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