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"If the Conoh it," said

Captain Candage, "we'll be here to give her three cheers when it's over

And if she goes doe'll be on deck to flap her a fare-ye-well"

In that spirit they snugged everything on board the schooner and

prepared to defy the storht, with a howl of blast

and a fusillade of sleet like bird-shot It sta

sea and

with only a forestays'l that was iced to the hardness of boiler plate

But though the vast surges flung their ed and danced on her ninity Her men did not sleep; they thawed theain Each seemed to be animated by personal and

vital interest

"You can't buy crews like this one ages," observed Captain

Candage, icicled beard close to Mayo's ear "I reckon it was about as my

Polly said--you cast bread on the waters when you took their part on Hue

and Cry"

The young les of their

craft, waved a reed In that riot