The chatterbox book of soldiers and sailors (1910)
Robinson, Anna, Weir, Harrison · Boston, D. Estes · leaf 194
t vessel before the battle of Trafalgar, to seethat all was in readiness, he came upon a sailorkneeling with clasped hands beside one of thecannon. So you are afraid, are you, man? sneeredthe lieutenant. Afraid? said the sailor, laugh-ing, Iwas just praying that the French cannonballs may be… … THE RESCUE DONALD and Duncan were the twin sonsof a Scotch sea-captain. One clay theywere drifting about the bay in their catboat whenthey came upon a yacht which, for some reason,had been abandoned by her crew. The boyshailed her several times, but had no response.Finally they boarded her and…
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