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We make out the frigate to be the Terpsichore, and the sloop, I know by her new royals, is the Ringdove. The first ship, Captain Cuffe, brags of being able to travel faster than anything within the Straits!" "I'll bet a month's pay the Few-Folly walks away from her on a bowline, ten knots to her nine. If she can do that with the Proserpine, she'll at least do that with Mistress Terpsichore.
I don't see why he cannot use a Neapolitan frigate for this job, too; they are good for nothing else." "I rather think, Captain Cuffe, he will swing on board his own lugger, should we succeed in catching her," answered the lieutenant. "By George, you're right, Griffin; and that's another inducement for looking out sharp for the Few-Folly.
"That is an extraordinary question, Mr. Clinch! I wish the signal you made from yonder headland explained, sir. Did you not signal the ship, to say that you saw the le Few-Folly down here, at the southward?" "Well, sir, I'm glad there was no mistake in the matter," answered Clinch, in a confident and a relieved manner. "I was afraid at first, Captain Cuffe, my signal had not been understood."
"You forget, Captain Cuffe, that his lordship has sent a light cruiser already up that way, and le Feu-Follet would hardly dare to show herself near one of our regular fellows " "Umph! I don't know that, Mr. Griffin; I don't exactly know that. The Proserpine is a 'regular fellow, after a fashion, at least; and the Few-Folly has dared to show herself to her.
But we are not the less to commend those who did what was certainly their duty." "Am I to understand, Lord Nelson, that the Proserpine is not to destroy the Few-Folly at every hazard, should we again have the luck to fall in with her?" "By no means, sir. Our orders are to burn, sink, and destroy. Such is England's policy in this desperate war; and it must be carried out.
"Of that there can be no manner of doubt. I saw the two vessels foul of each other with my night-glass and seemingly both were on fire as plainly as I ever saw Vesuvius in a dark night." "And yet this Few-Folly has escaped! Poor Griffin has run a desperate risk for little purpose." "He has, indeed, my lord."
The men never behaved better; and down to the moment when we last cheered I was as sure of le Feu-Follet as I ever was of my own promotion." "Aye, they needn't call her le Few-Folly any longer the Great Folly being a better name. What the devil did you cheer for at all, sir? did you ever know a Frenchman cheer in your life?
We are sent alone; and if this Few-Folly get in between Ischia and Procida, it will be easier to unearth the fox than to drive her out single-handed. As for any more boat service against her, I suppose you've all had enough of that?"
Should it turn out as I trust it may, that we've got le Few-Folly in-shore of us, all we'll have to do will be to close in upon her and drive her up higher and higher into the Bay. She will naturally run into shallow water; when we must anchor off, man the boats, send them north and south of her, and let them board her under cover of our fire.
"Well, sir," commenced Cuffe, as soon as his lieutenant came into the after-cabin, without offering him a seat "here we are; and out yonder two or three leagues at sea is the d d Few-Folly!" for so most of the seamen of the English service pronounced "Feu-Follet."
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