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Still um ah let me see. The admiwal and some of the officers, not forming part of the stormers, are going on shore, and they will doubtless use the cutter; and as they will stay until all is over, I think you may venture to join us, and if you get into twouble over the affair, I must do the best I can to make excuses for you." "Hurrah, Bob!" I exclaimed, as I rejoined my despondent friend.
The storming-party is to be made up of an equal number of soldiers and bluejackets," here the speaker was interrupted by an enthusiastic cheer from his audience, the repetition of which was checked by the skipper's uplifted hand "the storming-party," he continued, "is to be composed equally, I say, of soldiers and bluejackets, and the admiwal has authowized each captain to call for fifty volunteers keep steady, men; be silent and ah wait until I have quite finished, if you please.
"My lads, I have just weturned from a conference with the admiwal, at which every captain in the fleet was pwesent. And I am ah charged by Lord Hood to expwess to you all officers and men alike his thanks for your wecent exertions in waising the guns to the top of yonder wock.
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