Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 306
shells toward the sky and drops them far out in thebay. In the machine shops one class is busy atthe lathes, turning out working models of marineengines ; or hard at work with hammers and rivet-ing tools, putting patches on an old boiler that,owing to the large number of these additions, haslittle… … can see groups banging away with muskets andrevolvers at the battered targets, or turnirfg thecranks of Catling and Hotchkiss guns which pourforth a shower of bullets; while down by the sea-wall a thundering mortar hurls its screeching occupied by the plebes, who are there initiatedinto the…
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