The chatterbox book of soldiers and sailors (1910)
Robinson, Anna, Weir, Harrison · Boston, D. Estes · leaf 200
^ sir, wasthe pilots reply. On and on swept the flames.The stern of the boat was wrapped in them. Butthe pilot stood at his wheel. And still he stoodthere choked by smoke and scorched by flame,when the boat was beached, and every man, woman,and child was saved. Then brave John Maynard,his heroic… … THE FLYING DUTCHMAN T KNOW the story of the Flying Dutchman-^ is true, said Mynheer Van Vleet, becauseI saw her once myself. We were rounding theCape of Good Hope, he went on, knockingthe ashes from his pipe. I was standing withthe captain by the lee rail. Two seamen werebeside us. The sea was as…
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