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"THE OLD GUNNER STRAIGHTENED HIMSELF UP, SURVEYING BOTH SIMON AND ME." 30

"'I AM NOT ASKING YOU LADS TO TELL TALES OUT OF SCHOOL,' THE CAPTAIN SAID." 46

"SUDDENLY I SAW, RISING OUT FROM THE FORECASTLE HATCHWAY, A WHITE MASS." 62

"'WE DON'T COUNT ON GIVING A DOUBLE PORTION TO ANY ONE OF YOU THIS NOON.'" 87

"WHAT A CHEER WENT UP FROM OUR MEN." 131

"WE DIVIDED OURSELVES INTO TWO WATCHES." 135

"IN ANOTHER INSTANT THE BOARDING PIKE WOULD HAVE FOUND ITS WAY THROUGH MY BODY." 140

THE ARMED SHIP AMERICA; OR, WHEN WE SAILED FROM SALEM.

AN OPPORTUNITY.

It is not my intention to claim that Simon Ropes, son of that famous mariner, Captain Joseph Ropes, or myself, Nathan Crowninshield, nephew and cousin of the well-known Salem firm of ship-owners, the Messrs. George Crowninshield and Sons, bore any important part in the war between the United States and Great Britain which was begun in the year 1812; but that we two lads did all which might be expected from youngsters of our age is a fact that can be proven by more than one sailing-master or seaman hailing from the Massachusetts coast.

Then Simon, who was the elder, had just turned fifteen years, and I was three months his junior.


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