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Would you kindly mind turnin' to the precise page indicated an' givin' me a resume of 'is tattics?" said Mr. Pyecroft, drinking deeply. "I'd like to know 'ow it looked from 'is side o' the deck." "How will this do?" I said. "'Once clear of the land, like Voltaire's Habakkuk " "One o' their new commerce-destroyers, I suppose," Mr. Pyecroft interjected.
'Wherefore, he says, 'will you have the extreme goodness to reduce speed as requisite for keepin' a proper distance behind this providential tramp till further orders? Now, that's what I call tattics. "The other manoeuvres developed next day, strictly in accordance with the plans as laid down in the wardroom, where they sat long an' steady.
"I may have omitted to inform you that our Number One took a general row round the situation while the small-arm party was at work, an' o' course he supplied the outlines; but the details we coloured in by ourselves. These were our tattics to baffle Antonio. It occurs to the Carpenter to 'ave the steam-cutter down for repairs. 'E gets 'is cheero-party together, an' down she comes.
"Those are the Red Fleet destroyer flotilla, which is too frail to panic about among the full-blooded cruisers inside Portland breakwater, and several millimetres too excited over the approachin' war to keep a look- out inshore. Hence our tattics!" We wailed through our siren a long, malignant, hyena-like howl and a voice hailed us as we went astern tumultuously.
"The essence o' strategy bein' forethought, the essence o' tattics is surprise. Per'aps you didn't know that? My forethought 'avin' secured the initial advantage in attack, it remained for the old man to ladle out the surprise-packets. 'Eavens! What surprises!
I knew what our bafflin' tattics was goin' to be, but even I was mildly surprised when this gay fantasia of Brazee drummers halted under the poop, because of an 'ammick in charge of our Navigator, an' a small but 'ighly efficient landin'-party. "''Ard astern both screws! says the Navigator.
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