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What signifies it if they do, brother, replied my uncle Toby, so long as we know 'tis for the good of the nation? Generous souls! God prosper you both, and your mortar-pieces too! quoth my father to himself. All is quiet and hush, cried my father, at least above stairs I hear not one foot stirring. Prithee Trim, who's in the kitchen?
She seemed to me a very comely woman: but I hope to see more of her on May-day. 28th. Castle at Half-way Tree, they tell me of stone-shot of thirty-six inches diameter, which they shot out of mortar-pieces. 29th. Sir G. Carteret tells me my Lord Arlington hath done like a gentleman by him in all things.
Eustatius, Saba, and perhaps Curaçao, and on the homeward voyage visit the French settlements on Hispaniola and Tortuga. "All this is prepared," he wrote, "by the honest privateer, at the old rate of no purchase no pay, and it will cost the king nothing considerable, some powder and mortar-pieces."
May it please your honour, cried Trim, they are two mortar-pieces for a siege next summer, which I have been making out of a pair of jack-boots, which Obadiah told me your honour had left off wearing.
These had with them eleven thousand and two hundred cannons, double cannons, long pieces of artillery called basilisks, and smaller sized ones known by the name of spirols, besides the mortar-pieces and grenadoes. Of pioneers they had seven-and-forty thousand, all victualled and paid for six months and four days of advance.
The old soldier and the Puritan instantly plunged into a deep and learned disquisition upon the merits of wall-pieces, drakes, demi-culverins, sakers, minions, mortar-pieces, falcons, and pattereroes, concerning all which pieces of ordnance Saxon had strong opinions to offer, fortified by many personal hazards and experiences.
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