The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 149
rd at which it is being built.The cost is, roughly speaking, about five or sixmillion dollars. Torpedo-boats and torpedo-boat destroyersare small, unarmored craft; often the steelhull is only about one half-inch in thickness,but they travel as fast as many railway trains;some thirty or thirty-five… … THE PROW OF A GALLEY OF I594. fire that is sure to deluge them. Kipling, inhis graphic style, gives a fine description of thedeadly work of these little fiends: Now! while their silly smoke hangs thick,Now, ere their wits they find—Strike! and strike hard! —The blow went home;—Our galled whale is…
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