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Give me time," he pleaded. "Mars' Ross Mars' Ross! Head 'em off!" sounded a yell, and Babe, the house-boy, came around the porch in pursuit of two half-grown chickens. "Help him, Rossie," prompted Aunt Missouri, sharply. "You boys can stay to supper and have some of the chicken if you help catch them."
Despite the efficiency and numbers of American privateers, it was not British commerce, but American, that was destroyed by the war. From Newport the "Rossie" took a turn through another lucrative field of privateering enterprise, the Caribbean Sea.
Rossie Bent who worked downstairs in the bank, who had come home with two fingers missing and all of the girls had fallen at his feet and Tom had had to salute him. But there was nothing missing about Tom except his wits and his grip on himself, sometimes. But no one noticed this particularly, unless it was Mr.
He commissioned a Baltimore schooner, the "Rossie," at the outbreak of the war; partly, apparently, in order to show a good example of patriotic energy, but doubtless also through the promptings of a love of adventure, not extinguished by advancing years. The double motive kept him an active, useful, and distinguished public servant throughout the war.
A caller, Ross dared not use his voice to shout nor his legs to run toward them. "Why don't you go and talk to the girls, Rossie?" Aunt Missouri asked, in the kindness of her heart. "Don't be noisy it's Sunday, you know and don't get to playing anything that'll dirty up your good clothes." Ross pressed his lips hard together; his heart swelled with the rage of the misunderstood.
Wife's in Elizabethtown now, visiting." We asked about the west roads and went on our way. Long before daylight we were climbing the steep road at Rossie to the inn of the Travellers' Rest a tavern famous in its time, that stood half up the hill, with a store, a smithy, and a few houses grouped about it, We came up at a silent walk on a road cushioned with sawdust.
On August 30 the "Rossie," having run down the Nova Scotia coast and passed by George's Bank and Nantucket, went into Newport, Rhode Island. It is noticeable that before and after those ten days of success, although she saw no English vessels, except ships of war cruising on the outer approaches of their commerce, she was continually meeting and speaking American vessels returning home.
"It gives a man lots of confidence to know he's good-looking," he remarked, taking all the room in front of the mirror. Ross, at the wash-stand soaking his hair to get the curl out of it, grumbled some unintelligible response. The two boys went down the stairs with tremulous hearts. "Why, you've put on another clean shirt, Rossie!" Mrs. Pryor called from her chair mothers' eyes can see so far!
While the "Rossie" was on her way to the West Indies, there sailed from Salem a large privateer called the "America," the equipment and operations of which illustrated precisely the business conception which attached to these enterprises in the minds of competent business men.
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