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paint an' feath-ahs off 'eh to be pleasant, Walker Their flank es had succeeded in

reaching the decks--well, we ht have beaten theo"

"Mebbe you-aight, cap'n 'Best look at a bull ov-ah a fence,' as

they say in the Canny Toon Eh, but I'll have a fine tale to tell when

next I meet my butties on the Quay-side Did ye ev-ah see such faces

as yon, all daubed wi' black an' white! Talk about Chirgwin--"

Courtenay s: the

death of the Chilean fireh spirits The Kansas

bore tokens in plenty of the battle Many bullets and arrows had

struck the ship; the canvas was torn in several places; a nuhts were broken, and the open decks fore and aft, as well as

the spar deck, were littered with stones He picked up some of these

missiles, man's earliest and latest projectile They were round and

heavy; a few bore the red streaks of oxidized iron; soh the action of water had made them

"smooth stones out of the brook" He showed one to Tolleood deal of out-of-the-way knowledge, and the

latter instantly pronounced the specimen to be almost pure copper

veined with silver