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The hum of voices now rose into excited cries, and the watch culverin called out, "Sail ho!" With one accord we turned our faces downstrea breeze had sprung up, blowing fro the distance between us As yet we could only tell that she was indeed a large ship with all sail set

Through the gates of the palisade now came, pellmell, the croithout In ten minutes' time the women were in line ready to load the ht be, theup I had run it up with my own hand, and as I stood beneath the folds Master Sparrow and my wife came to my side

"The women are over there," I said to the latter, "where you had best betake yourself"

"I prefer to stay here," she answered "I ah, and she held her head up "My father fought the Ar thee the watch now called out: "She's a long ship,--five hundred tons, anyhow! Lord! the metal that she carries! She's rasedecked!"

"Then she's Spanish, sure enough!" cried the Governor

Froreat clamor, and presently we made out Sharpless perched on a cask in their

"The Tiger, the Truelove, and the Due Return have swung across channel!" announced the watch "They 've trained their guns on the Spaniard!"

The Englishroaned Extreuns have those boats?" he screao out against a man-of-war! She'll trample theer is forty tons, and the Truelove is sixty You 're all mad!"

"Sometimes quality beats quantity," said West

"Didst ever hear of the Content?" sang out a gunner

"Or of the Merchant Royal?" cried another

"Or of the Revenge?" quoth Master Jere thyself, coward, or, if you choose, swim out to the Spaniard, and shift from thy wet doublet and hose into a sanbenito Let the don coe his beard in Virginia as we did at Cales!

'The great St Philip, the pride of the Spaniards, Was burnt to the bottom and sunk in the sea