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Afterwards, when I saw a sea-fight, I saw that just such a spirit filled the sailors, as they loaded and fired the guns. I pushed my way along the cliffs through the gorse, till I came to the patch where the coast-guards had lain. The grass was trampled and broken, beaten flat in places as though heavy bodies had fallen on it; there were marks of a struggle all over the patch.
"That's the way to do it," said William, approvingly. "We will fool them so completely that they will not want to hear of smugglers again for six months." "Let's go and get some breakfast," said George. "Never go to work on an empty stomach, you know." "Yes, come on," said Harry, taking each of the captive coast-guards by the arm; "we never feed our prisoners on half rations."
We had already changed our course, and were swinging round in a half-circle, preparatory to heading back down stream. The smashed remains of the two boats were bobbing about behind us, and in the midst of them I could make out the figures of the coast-guards, clinging affectionately to various bits of wreckage. Besides myself, there were three other men in the launch. Dr.
And while they were striving for precedence toward the middle, the coast-guards from either side marched upon them, according to their very best drill and in high discipline, to knock down almost any man with the pommel of the sword. But the smugglers also showed high discipline under the commanding voice of Captain Brown.
From the captain himself down to the lowest official, an incessant vigilance was kept up the result of which was that the fiscal department of the Spanish government was, perhaps, never so faithfully or economically served. There was one of these coast-guards who affected a complete scepticism in regard to smuggling he even went so far as to deny that it had ever existed!
River Andrew had never hurried in his life, and like all his fellows, he looked upon coast-guards as amateurs mindful, as all amateurs are, of their clothes. "A'm now going," he answered, rising laboriously from his chair. The coast-guard glanced at his feet clad in the bright green carpet-slippers, dear to seafaring men.
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