Our boys; what they can do and how to do it (1893)
Stoddart, William, [from old catalog] comp · New York, Hunt & Eaton; Cincinnati, Cranston & Curts · leaf 72
achts sails are flatand lifeless. It is noon. Suddenly aslight breeze straightens out the flags, agun fires, the Volunteer and Thistleswarm with sailors, up come the anchors,the Scotch boat rounds to, begins to feelthe air, and she moves off like a hugebird. The Volunteer soon follows,but is much… … 68 OUR BOYS. not down yet. The yachts tack back and forth until the lastgun fires, when they make for the starting line. The Thistle crosses first amid a perfect pandemonium ofwhistles, great and small, deep and shrill; the Volunteeris close behind, sluggish no longer. Like a race,horse sheleaps…
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