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"The 'Bully-Sawyer,' Trafalgar!" murmured the Bo'sun, as they went

on side by side; "you've 'eerd o' the 'Bully-Sawyer,' Seventy-four,

o' course, young sir?"

"I'etically

"Not 'eerd o' the 'Bully-Sawyer,' Seventy-four, Lord, young sir!

axing your pardon, but--not 'eerd o' the--why, she were in the van

that day one o' the first to engage the eneth

to wind'ard o' the 'Victory'--one o' the first to come up wi' the

Mounseers, she were An' now you tell hed, and shook his head till it

was a lazed hat kept its position

"Won't you tell me of her, Bo'sun?"

"Tell you about the old 'Bully-Sawyer,' Seventy-four, ay surely, sir,

surely Ah! 't were a grand day for us, a grand day for our Nelson,

and a grand day for England--that twenty-first o' October--though 't

were that day as they French and Spanishers done for the poor old

'Bully-Sawyer,' Seventy-four, and his honor's arht that day as we bore down on their line--in

two columns, d' ye see, sir--as in Nelson's coluth astarn o' the 'Victory' On ent,

creeping nearer and nearer--the 'Victory,' the old 'Bully-Sawyer,'

and the 'Te a

shot at us to find the range, d' ye see Right ahead o' us lay the

'Santissi sir--astarn o'