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the St Andrew and eke the St Matthew We took in fight ht away'

And so we'll do with this one, ainst her own galleons and galleasses!

'Dub-a-dub, dub-a-dub, thus strike their drureat voice and great presence seized and held the attention of all Over his doublet of rusty black he had clapped a yet rustier back and breast; on his bushy hair rode a headpiece many sizes too small; by his side was an old broadsword, and over his shoulder a pike Suddenly, froed to an expression"Our cause is just, land alone; we stand for the love of law, for the love of liberty, for the fear of God, ill not desert his servants and his cause, nor give over to Anti-Christ this virgin world This plantation is the leaven which is to leaven the whole lump, and surely he will hide it in the hollow of his hand and in the shadow of his wing God of battles, hear us! God of England, God of America, aid the children of the one, the saviors of the other!"

He had dropped the pike to raise his clasped hands to the blue heavens, but now he lifted it again, threw back his shoulders, and flung up his head He laid his hand on the flagstaff, and looked up to the banner streaainst the blue, does n't it, friends?" he cried genially "Suppose we keep it there forever and a day!"

A cheer arose, so loud that it silenced, if it did not convince, the craven few As for Master Edward Sharpless, he disappeared behind the line of worowing larger and larger, , her whole aspect more defiant Her waist see

A puff of ser, and a ball froer's rigging A cheer for the brave little cockboat arose frolish "David and his pebble!" exclaimed Master Jeremy Sparrow "Now for Goliath's twenty-pounders!"

But no flaer Instead, frohtily like a roar of laughter Suddenly, from each masthead and yard shot out streamers of red and blue, up from the poop rose and flaunted in the wind the crosses of St George and St Andrew, and with a crash truood ale and old!"