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Turner with one blow of his ax, and after Nat had struck Mrs. Newsome over the head with his sword, Will turned and killed her also. By this time the company amounted to fifteen. Nine went mounted to the home of Mrs. Whitehead and six others went along a byway to the home of Henry Bryant.

The previous experiments had clearly demonstrated that a Whitehead, when projected against a vessel at close range, and consequently with a maximum of motive force, could not get through the ordinary wire netting before expending its explosive energy in the air, and that the spars by which the nets are boomed out from the ship's side could be reduced to 25 ft. in length without danger to the hull.

In the course of the fight the Shah launched a Whitehead torpedo against the ironclad, but it failed to strike her. The British ships were ably handled, and received no serious damage in the encounter; and after a three hours' engagement the Huascar steamed away and made for a Peruvian port.

For they had expected to fight, and fight hard for every point, and they were totally unprepared for the unexplainable collapse of the opposing team. From the very start, the ball was theirs. It took time for them to recover from the shock before they could use their advantage. Before the end of the first half, Whitehead had put in four substitutes. "What can be the matter?"

Miss King gave her a hand glass before replying. Lois sat up in bed and looked at herself. Both sides of her face were swollen. "Mumps!" she exclaimed. "Oh, what a sight I am," she added, laughing. Polly and Betty came up to inquire for her, after breakfast, and heard the news. "Mumps!" they both said at once. And Polly cried. "Why, Betty, that's what was wrong with the Whitehead team."

In its original form, the torpedo was motionless in the water, either anchored to the ground, or floating on the surface, and was in fact what now is called a "mine." But forty-eight years ago an Englishman named Whitehead invented the automobile, auto-steering, torpedo, which still bears his name.

A heavy boom followed, and I had the extreme gratification of knowing that the little Kasanumi's first Whitehead had got home. The explosion was quickly followed by several others; and in the midst of them a sudden transformation took place.

Since the last experiments were carried out against her, however, measures have been taken to make her as far as possible the counterpart, so far as under water arrangements and coal protection are concerned, of a modern ship of war. At the last attack, the Whitehead was directed against the after part of the hull on the port side in wake of the boilers.

It is the belief of the author, however, that the time is close at hand when aeroplanes and dirigibles of large size will be capable of offensive operations of the highest order, including the launching of automobile torpedoes of the Whitehead type. Skill. The question of skill bears a relation to the question of the material power directed by it that is very vital, but very elusive.

"We were not even within signal distance, and came along by accident. Listen, all of you. When an American war-craft sinks or destroys a larger enemy, there is a bounty due her crew of two hundred dollars for every man on board the enemy. That is law, isn't it?" They nodded. "If a submarine boat can be a war-craft, so may a Whitehead torpedo, and certainly is one, being built for war.

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