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Updated: May 11, 2025
I noticed the tears stand in Anson's eyes as the coffin was lowered into the grave, the boy had been wounded close to him, and when we heard the hollow battle of the earth on the coffin, an unusual sound to a sailor, he shuddered.
Of course the twins were wild to go, too; but even if Dot had not had a cold, the walk would have been much too long for them. Aunt Polly promised to help them make molasses candy that afternoon, and that cheered them up somewhat. "Now if it snows between now and the time school is out, come home without going to Mrs. Anson's," said Mother Blossom, following Meg and Bobby to the door.
This duty, which, by bringing him immediately under the eyes of the naval commander-in-chief, placed him also on the highway to advancement, he owed to Admiral Keppel, then one of the leading flag officers of the British navy. His uncle, Philip Saumarez, and Keppel had shared the perils and sufferings of Anson's well-known expedition to the South Seas in 1740.
Anson's business in this visit was to solicit the Governor to grant us a supply of provisions, and to furnish us with such stores as were necessary to refit the ship.
In 1745 he saw the rebel Highlanders on their southward march: he was notable for his study of Anson's Voyages and of the Arabian Nights: "a fiery man, his stroke as ready as his word; of the toughness and springiness of steel; an honest but not an industrious man;" subsequently tenant of a small farm, in which capacity he does not seem to have managed his affairs with much effect; the family were subjected to severe privations, the mother having, on occasion, to heat the meal into cakes by straw taken from the sacks on which the children slept.
"She's sleepin'. Let her sleep. She'd shore be a sight better off if she was daid." "A-huh! So would all of this hyar outfit," was Anson's response. "Wal, Sna-ake, I shore reckon we'll all be thet there soon," drawled Wilson, in his familiar cool and irritating tone that said so much more than the content of the words. Anson did not address the Texas member of his party again.
"Times has changed, Snake," was the imperturbable reply. "Wal, won't you go?" demanded the leader, impatiently. "I shore won't." Wilson did not look or intimate in any way that he would not leave the girl in camp with one or any or all of Anson's gang, but the truth was as significant as if he had shouted it. The slow-thinking Moze gave Wilson a sinister look.
Her visitor stared. "When you were young? But how did they know when the thing hung fire as it did? When the whole edition was thrown back on his hands?" "The whole edition what edition?" It was Miss Anson's turn to stare. "Why, of his pamphlet the pamphlet the one thing that counts, that survives, that makes him what he is!
Captain Anson's conduct on this occasion greatly assisted him in his subsequent proceedings with the timid and treacherous Chinese. His great object was now to sail for England before the enemy should gain intelligence of the wealth carried in the Centurion.
In the case of Anson's threefold organisation, the relation is not far to seek, though it has become obscured by two maxims. The one is, that "the command of the sea depends upon battleships," and the other, that "cruisers are the eyes of the fleet." It is the inherent evil of maxims that they tend to get stretched beyond their original meaning.
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