The chatterbox book of soldiers and sailors (1910)
Robinson, Anna, Weir, Harrison · Boston, D. Estes · leaf 178
he Admiral accepted the challenge, butrefused to fight with swords. Youre a famousswordsman, he said, and Im not. I know afairer way. The duel was arranged for the nextday. When the swordsman went to the Admiral,he found him seated on a powder barrel, a lightedfuse in his hand. Sit down, man, on… … WHEN THE IDA CAPSIZED ^ I ^HEY laughed at me when I started from-^ the float in my catboat, there was so Httlewind. I drifted down Dorchester Bay into theharbor until I was about a mile off Deer Island.It was so warm and still I must have fallenasleep. Anyway there was suddenly a rushingsound, and…
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