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Updated: May 15, 2025
"The chances are in our favor, however, for the men cannot handle their rifles to the best advantage while the Belle heaves in the sea," added the captain. "Don't stand up where they can see you, Christy, but get down on the deck with that lock-string in your hand.
He can't help putting his craft where the muzzle of this piece will cover it; and if we pull the lock-string at that instant, the shot will knock his steamer all to pieces, and spill the conspirators into the river." "If you hit her," suggested Paul. "You can't very well help hitting her. Just squint along that gun, and see where the shot will bring up."
Three other shots followed the first, one of the balls passing through the boards of the pilot-house, above the helmsman's head; and he saw a splinter fly from a stanchion forward. Captain Pecklar waited for the fourth shot, and he had evidently noticed how many men had muskets in their hands, then he sprang out from his hiding-place, sighted the gun, and pulled the lock-string.
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