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Updated: May 16, 2025
'If I was to take th' job, he says, 'I'd be tortured day an' night, he says, 'be th' fear iv assassination, he says. 'Think, he says, 'iv some arnychist shootin' thirteen-inch shells at me, he says, 'an' maybe, he says, 'dentin' me, he says. 'No, he says, 'I have a good job where I am, he says.
"Fire! fire!" shouts Moultrie, as the men-of-war come within point-blank shot. The low palmetto cob house begins to thunder with its heavy guns. A bomb vessel casts anchor about a mile from the fort. Puff! bang! a thirteen-inch shell rises in the air with a fine curve and falls into the fort. It bursts and hurls up cart loads of sand, but hurts nobody.
Then came an explosion that sounded like a thirteen-inch gun being set off close to their ears. They were stunned by the shock and frightened half out of their wits by the unknown terror. An instant later it was as if the sky was raining gravel, stones and sand. "You can get up now," Jack heard Mr. Post saying.
In a fight lasting thirty minutes, these guns would throw forty-one and a half tons of metal, of which forty-four thousand pounds would be the share of the thirteen-inch guns, thirty thousand pounds the share of the eight-inch, six thousand pounds of the six-inch, and thirty-six hundred pounds of the others.
Even as Sivad fitted the first arrow to the string, and Stern was about to apply the torch, a rattling crash from above caused all to cringe and leap aside. Down, leaping, ricochetting, thundering, hurtled a great boulder, spurning the cliff-face with a tremendous uproar. It struck the parapet like a thirteen-inch shell, smashed out two yards of wall, and vanished in the depths.
A schooner darted out the other day from Marblehead, and captured the brig Nancy and a rich cargo which I could ill afford to lose, two thousand muskets, one hundred thousand flints, thirty thousand cannon-balls, and thirty tons of musket-balls, and a thirteen-inch mortar. I understand Mr. Washington is greatly elated by the capture, as well he may be."
The red ammunition flag was flying at the foremast head, and all thoughts must be given up of the good times ashore. The starboard watch then went on liberty ashore and the port watch tackled the ammunition. From noon till after ten, we were kept busy storing thirteen-inch shells for the biggest guns in the navy.
Likewise, the Treasury portfolio was as a thirteen-inch gun within pointblank range of the stock market. Senator Hanway took a week to consider; he conferred with Senators Gruff and Price and Loot and lastly with Mr. Harley.
Four of the enemy's squadron had struck their colors, two were on the beach, broken and burning, two had sunk to the bottom of the sea, two were in abject flight. Three battle-ships were hammering them with thirteen-inch guns. The battle was won. "It's all over," Channing said. His tone questioned his own words.
Cora was not the kind of person to try a popgun on an enemy when she had a thirteen-inch gun at her disposal; so he reasoned; and in the gush of his relief and happiness, responded: "You're a little too cocky lately, Cora-lee: I wish you were my daughter just about five minutes!" Cora looked upon him fondly. "What would you do to me," she inquired with a terrible sweetness "darling little boy?"
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