Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 418
rd at which it is being built.The cost is, roughly speaking, about five or sixmillion dollars. Torpedo-boats and torpedo-boat destroyersare small, unarmored craft; often the steelhull is only about one half-inch in thickness,but they travel as fast as many railway trains;some thirty or thirty-five… … THE PROW OF A GALLEY OF 1594. fire that is sure to deluge them. Kipling, inhis graphic style, gives a fine description of thedeadly work of these little fiends: Now! while their silly smoke hangs thick,Now, ere their wits they find —Strike! and strike hard! —The blow went home ;—■Our galled whale…
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