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"Then let go!" ordered Milsom, moving the handle to "Half speed ahead!" "Lay aft, some hands, and stow the gangway ladder. Quartermaster, stand by to dip our ensign to the cruiser as we pass her; and when she has acknowledged it, haul it and the burgee down and stow them away in the flag locker!"
He noticed, as they sailed into the bay, a very handsome steam yacht lying at anchor, a sea-going craft flying the New York Yacht Club's burgee. On his return to the hotel Colin found his chief waiting for him, a little impatiently. "We're going to dinner on the Golden Falcon," he said, as soon as he saw the boy, "she belongs to a friend of mine.
I sought out the man most apt to know of any considerable vessels docking there, and made inquiry for any power yacht one hundred and twenty-five feet long, white and black ventilators, white hull with blue line, flying the burgee Belle Helène, or some such name. None could advise me for a time, and I looked in vain, as I had in every dock in six hundred miles, for the trim hull of my yacht.
I had long ago prepared a red swallow-tailed burgee, such as the pirate had dared me to exhibit, and I immediately gave orders to hoist it at our fore royal masthead. The flag had scarcely reached the truck when I saw a black flag flutter out over the other brigantine's rail and go soaring aloft to her gaff-end. Morillo had evidently recognised my challenge, and was prompt to answer it.
In answer without order from me, my bloodthirsty mate, L'Olonnois, brought out the black burgee of the Jolly Rover, bearing a skull and cross-bones. "Have a look at that!" he piped. "Shall we clear the stern-chaser, Black Bart?" "Hold on there, wait! I've got papers for you," called the officer, still hanging at our rail, for I had not yet ordered full speed.
Above the camp there floated one of a line of sausage balloons, and the cable to which it was attached stretched up taut from some point near the farmhouse behind. A triangular flag, like a burgee, flew straight out in the breeze from half-way up the cable, and the basket, looking absurdly small, hung down like a black dot below the balloon. Peace was the keynote of the whole situation.
And see that for an ensign! and the firm's flag and the highs look! the J. A. D. twisted up the same as on the handkerchiefs we strained the coffee through last week. And the burgee the letters on the burgee my cousin Alice worked them. And these stars see, on the ensign mummer and my cousin both worked them.
Her yards were all squared with the nicest precision, and the new cream-white canvas snugly furled upon them and the booms; the red ensign streamed from the gaff-end; and the burgee, or house flag a red star in a white diamond upon a blue field cut with a swallow tail in the present instance to indicate that her skipper was the commodore of the fleet fluttered at the main-royal-masthead.
When the northwest trades held steady and true, and while the tide was still at the flood, they would scorn the services of the tug that went out to meet them and come ramping into the bight, all their white sails set and the glory of the sun upon them; as they swept past, far below The Laird, they would dip his house-flag a burgee, scarlet-edged, with a fir tree embroidered in green on a field of white the symbol to the world that here was a McKaye ship.
And now, if you're all of the same mind, let's get started." "Hurrah; hoist the Pennant of the Silver Fox Patrol that your Sister Polly made us, Giraffe, and every fellow dip his hat to the colors of the gay Chippeway Belle!" and in answer to this request on the part of Davy Jones they did salute the raising of the neat little burgee that had a silver fox fashioned in silken hand-work upon it.
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