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Updated: May 15, 2025
"Why, my hearties, I did not do quite as much as my gun. But I flatter myself it was that gun that brought clown the Turkish Admiral's main-mast; and the stump left wasn't long enough to make a wooden leg for Lord Nelson." "How? but I thought, by the way you pull a lock-string on board here, and look along the sight, that you can steer a shot about right hey, Jack?"
The seaman stands immediately in rear of the gun, with eye along the sight directing its train, now right, now left, now well, and with taut lock-string in hand in readiness to pull the moment the object is on, and on the alert to jump clear of the recoil.
The Phantom and Christabel were not far behind the Sea Foam, while the rest were scattered along all the way over to Turtle Head. "Ready there!" shouted Donald, as the Skylark came nearly in range of the Penobscot and the chimney. "All ready," replied Sam Rodman. The gun forward had been loaded, and a seaman stood at the lock-string, to salute the first boat in.
Laud has picked up two live weights, and wants another man," replied Sam Rodman. "We won't wait for him." But Laud got into line in season. One of the seamen of the Penobscot stood at the lock-string of the gun forward, ready to fire when the chairman of the judges gave the word. "Have your watch ready, Frank," said Donald. "All ready," answered Norwood. "Fire!" shouted Donald.
Beardsley showed that he was one of them by the hard words he used when he came down from aloft and sent a lookout up to take his place, and Tierney, after shaking his fist at the Yankee, shut one eye, glanced along the rail with the other, as he had glanced through the sights of the howitzer he once commanded, and then jerked back his right hand as if he were pulling a lock-string.
The captain of the next gun, dropping his lock-string, which he had just pulled, turned over the heap of bodies to see who they were; when, perceiving an old messmate, who had sailed with him in many cruises, he burst into tears, and, taking the corpse up in his arms, and going with it to the side, held it over the water a moment, and eying it, cried, "Oh God! Tom!"
He could see without the aid of a glass that it was a boat and nothing else; and more than that, the schooner had by this time drawn so near her that he could make out two suspicious objects in her bow one he was sure was a howitzer, and the other looked very like the upright, motionless figure of a blue-jacket, awaiting the order from the officer in command to pull the lock-string.
It won't do to fire off a shotted gun like that baby without knowing pretty well what you are shooting at." "That is a long argument, Paul; and I have not the remotest idea of doing any such thing as you describe. I am going to know what we are firing at before we pull the lock-string," replied Christy, rather impatiently. "But we have no time to dig up mare's nests.
Better than any soldier, he could make the proper allowance for the motion of the steamer in the sea, which was becoming heavier. "Fire!" shouted he, with more voice than he was supposed to have in the feeble condition of his lungs. The gunner had loaded the piece himself, and it made a tremendous report when Christy pulled the lock-string.
Boxie was stationed at the lock-string, and held it in his hand, ready to speed the great shot on its errand of destruction; but he hoped the midshipman would depress the muzzle of the gun before he was called upon to pull the string.
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