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A tall Portuguese, with a movement of rage, snatched it up and darted to the gun: the Yankee rifle cracked, but a moment too late. Bang! went the pirate's bow-chaser, and crashed into the Agra's side, and passed nearly through her. *Being disabled, the schooner's head had come round to windward, though she was drifting to leeward. "Ye missed him! Ye missed him!" cried the rival theorist joyfully.
One of the favourite pranks of the sailors was to place him near the break of the forecastle, with a handspike, taken from the bow-chaser gun, in his paws. It was quite as much as he could carry, and far more than he could use as a missile against the royals; but he was soon instructed in a method of employing it, which always grievously annoyed the enemy.
He then put his helm up, and fired his other bow-chaser, and sent the shot hissing and skipping on the water past the ship. This prologue made the novices wince. Bayliss wanted to reply with a carronade; but Dodd forbade him sternly, saying, "If we keep him aloof we are done for."
A clap of thunder, followed by a monstrous hissing overhead, awoke Kit from dreams of blackberrying with Gwen in the dew-white dawn. He started up. "What's that?" he cried, seeking his mind. "The privateer barking good-bye, sir," came old Piper's voice from across the room. "She's stood in with the tide, and had a slap with her bow-chaser. Now she's going about."
Then he hoisted the English ensign over the French, and immediately the stranger yawed and fired a bow-chaser. "You'd think it well to mystify them a little, sir," observed Paul. "We should do that if we hoisted the French flag over the English." This was done, and for some time no other shot was fired. Still the stranger seemed to be not altogether satisfied.
The cutter returned it with a bow-chaser, and to some purpose, it seemed, by the cries and shrieks which followed. "Give it them again!" shouted Tompion. "If they do get away, they shall have cause to remember us. Fire, my men, fire!"
The crew cheered with glee when they found that their efforts were not without good effect, and that the frigate at last was overhauling the chase. At length she got near enough to fire a bow-chaser. The shot took effect, and cut away several of her braces. This allowed the sails to fly wildly in the air.
The schooner now rapidly came up with the merchant vessel, for such there seemed no doubt was the character of the chase. Whether or not she would fight seemed a question. As they drew nearer, a considerable number of men were seen on deck, and she gave no signs of yielding. As soon as the Frenchman's bow-chaser could be brought to bear, a shot was fired, but no reply was given.
Flora's her cousin, through Steve, and if she ever marries Captain Irby she'll be Hilary's cousin, and " There, suddenly and once for all, the theme was dropped. Some man's quick word broke in. Fort Morgan had veiled itself in the smoke of its own broadside. Now came its thunder and the answering flame and roar of the Brooklyn's bow-chaser. The battle had begun.
Down came the Yankee colours from her gaff, and in its stead the white ensign of the Confederacy fluttered gaily in the breeze, while a blank shot from the Alabama's lee bow-chaser summoned the chase to surrender. Surrendering, however, seemed to be the last thing in the chase's thoughts.
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