Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 33
s to sup-plying the deficiency. For some days this goes on. Carts are contin-ually arriving from the different stores in the yardwith rope, canvas, and the thousand and one lastarticles required. At last the ship is ready to re-ceive her powder and shell, to have her compassesadjusted, and to run a… … THE ROYAL YACHT, VICTORIA AND ALBERT. nearly everybody wishing to secure as much timeas possible for his pipe. When the dinner-houris over, out go the pipes and all the men (orhands, as they are termed) are told off tovarious duties; but to-day the bugle sounds toexercise at general quarters, which…
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