Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 446
thing our hero did not know.Then all at once a happy thought came to this sea-dogs mind,And going out on board the Flame an anchor he did find,A small boats anchor of the kind that s known at sea as kedge—Three flukes, equipped with hoop and ring and sharpened on the edge. Safe-landed on the shore,… … The rope, and let the anchor hang, hooked up on his port side.But as the beast began to trot, the kedge began to hit;The puzzled creature turned his head and had a look at it. The thing he saw quite startled him; he jumped, put down his headAnd, with the bit between his teeth, as flies the arrow,…
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