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The Wrangler, Commander Burgoyne, came off Marioupol, Sea of Azov, where some boats, fishing-stations, and haystacks were discovered across a small lake. On this, Commander Burgoyne despatched Mr Odevaine, mate, and Mr Kellaway, boatswain, to destroy them.
Commander Burgoyne and the other officers of the ship were witnesses of the devoted conduct of Mr Kellaway, but were unable to render them assistance. While Lieutenant Day was in command of the Recruit he performed several very gallant acts, but none surpassed the following:
Mr Kellaway, believing that his commanding officer was wounded, though at the risk of his life, ran back to his rescue. While lifting him up they were surrounded by the Russians, and though the gallant boatswain made a stout resistance, they were both made prisoners and carried off.
His West is the West I learned to love." G.P. Putnam's Sons New York London The Ivory Fan By Adrian Heard When Lily Kellaway makes the observation, "It is better to be a slave to a man, which is natural, than to a woman, which is intolerable," she recites the text upon which the author of The Ivory Fan has built up a novel that is at once humorous in its cynicism and cynical in its humor.
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