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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 469

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s in a lazy fashion all day, the fortsreplying at longer intervals. Occasionally theenemys shells would strike the water or burstquite near us, but usually the shots passed over andbeyond the vessels, falling among small houses, ofthe poorer class, in the town down by the water. The blockaders… … HE STOOD SOLID AS A ROCK, WITH FEET WIDE APART TO STEADY HIiMSELF AGAINSTTHE ROLLING OF THE BOAT. promptly got out of range and there remained.We were usually very quiet at night, but one dis-mal rainy morning there was a great commotionoutside, with much banging of guns. The re-ports sounded at…

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