Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 41
ged panther she came at us asthough to lash sides and fight us hand to handwith battle-axes, as in the olden Spanish wars. Our ship had made its turn and the port bat-teries were manned, when an order came to trainthe big guns on the forts. We were aching for onemore at the Reina, but our first… … , ^m* COMMODORE DEWEY. fever was on us. Again I turned and countedeleven twice—when the breech-block opened, andwhen it closed—again the white veil shut out thepicture. When it lifted our gun was out of training, andI had leisure to look out. I noticed that the ad-mirals flag was gone from the…
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