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Updated: May 14, 2025
You're Maggie." "Yes," replied the girl. "Don't you recollect in the mission-school? Don't you recollect you married me and Larry? That's two years ago." She almost laughed out with pleasure. "And where's Larry?" "Why, don't you recollect? He's on the sloop-o'-war Preble." Then she added more gravely: "I aint seen him in twenty months. But I know he's all right.
At any rate, I know that it was with a distinct feeling of relief that I covered the last few yards that brought me out of the city of Mazatlan and into the open country. In theory, of course, the captain of the sloop-o'-war Jamestown could not have sent a squad of men after me with instructions to bring me back off foreign soil dead or alive, but in practice that is just what he would have done.
I was constantly on the lookout for work of some kind, but had no luck until one day as I was passing up Kearney street I saw a sign in one of the store windows calling for volunteers for the Sloop-o'-War Jamestown. After reading the notice a couple of times I decided to enlist, did so, was sent to Mare Island Navy Yard and from there boarded the Jamestown.
An awful spectacle Destruction of the ship Reason to be thankful A father's love How they took a Spanish sloop-o'-war The ruse and how it succeeded Between two fires Good and bad captains Roger quits the navy Becomes mate of a merchantman and retires on his laurels His marriage and settlement Our picnic breaks up.
"Can you make out her flag?" was inquired, almost anxiously. The man on the lookout plied his telescope a full half-minute before he responded: "Stars and Stripes, sir. Sloop-o'-war, sir. She's changin' her course, and she's makin' for us, I reckon." "Let her head!" growled the captain. "This bark'll bear more sail. Hoist away there, men. Let her have it!
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