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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 396

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night attacks, when all the shipssteam without lights. The attacking des-troyers have to get within a certain dis-tance of the big ships without being seen.Of course, the fleet is assigned other destroy-ers to guard it, so the game is hide-and-seekon a large scale, with regular rules, umpires, and… … FULL SPEED AHEAD! troyer in the darkness; while on the littlefellows, it is touch-and-go all the time.When a lucky boat does slip in close, shefires a red star, like a Roman candle, to showthe battle-ship that, according to the rules,she has been sunk. Daytime manoeuvres are not quite soexciting,…

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