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One instant he was visible beating back the fire with a wet blanket, waving it above him jubilantly, like a substitute at the Army-Navy game when his side scores, and the next staggering from out of the furnace dragging an asphyxiated trooper by the collar, and shrieking, "Hospital-steward, hospital-steward! here's a man on fire. Put him out, and send him back to me, quick!"
"'Scuse me, massa!" said the slave, with a low salutation; "I can't 'tand it; I can't, indeed, massa!" and, so saying, he disappeared beyond the hatchway. He was the only person on board, except the hospital-steward and the invalids of the sick-bay, who was exempted from being present at the administering of the scourge.
"It was not until the next day, Monsieur," he went on, "that I knew anything. Then I was in the hospital. "'How did it go? I asked of the hospital-steward. "'Shut up, said the steward. "This made me angry. 'How did it go, polisson? I cried. 'Tell me, or I'll crush your bones. "Then the man was more civil. 'The Russians were driven back, he said, 'and a lot of them were captured.
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