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Directly after dinner, the "Yankee's" first cutter and the second whaleboat were ordered away, manned and armed. A Colt machine gun was placed in the bow of the former, and each carried an extra squad of armed marines. When the expedition returned it had in tow five decked sloops, one of which contained a quantity of fresh fish.
"By the Virgin!" said one of the guerilleros, laughing, "he must have been a snake of good taste, to be caught toying around that dainty daughter of the old Spaniard! Now, if the Yankee's bullet ." We could hear no more, as the voices died away in the distance and under the sound of the water.
But Yankee's arms flashed out once, twice, thrice, and Pat Murphy fell back over his brother; two others staggered across and checked the oncoming rush, while Dannie Ross and big Mack Cameron had each beaten back their man, and the Glengarry line stood unbroken.
How much damage have I done your commissary department since I have been here?" "How much damage have you done which?" exclaimed Jeff. "How much do you want for the fodder I and my horse and that Yankee's horse have eaten?" repeated Rodney. "Oh; why didn't you say so?
The confining limitations of the Twentieth, that metropolitan center of some dozen buildings, including the sawmill and blacksmith shop, were too trying for Yankee's nervous system. "Yes, indeed," said Ranald, heartily. "We will be very glad to have you, and it will be the very best thing for father."
Murphy dashed at him, but Yankee's long arm shot out to meet him, and Murphy again found the floor. "Come on, boys," cried Pat Murphy, Dan's brother, and followed by half a dozen others, he flung himself at Yankee and the line of men standing up against the wall.
Our thoughts were with our comrade as we served the gun, and when word came a few moments later that he was doing fairly well, we could hardly repress a cheer. There was little time, however, for displaying emotion. We were right in the thick of the fight, and the "Yankee's" battery was being worked to the limit. It seemed as if the air fairly reeled with the noise and clamor of combat.
And perhaps the most exciting finish to any international race was the one in which the Yankee, who came up second, got 'first iron' by 'pitchpoling' clear over the intervening British boat, whose crew were nearly drowned by this 'slick' Yankee's flying warp.
In England, newspapers pay a very high tax; in America, they are perfectly free, and their transport by the mails is nearly so; and this is because our government, that is to say, the people, consider newspapers one of the necessaries of a Yankee's life. In the definition of a New-England man, you should always insert that he is "a go to meeting animal, and a newspaper reading animal!"
Now, I don't mind tellin' you, squire, lowering his voice to a whisper, 'that I've cleared a hundred per cent. on some sales in my time; an' the money hain't been idle since, you may b'lieve. Thar! that's sharp tradin', I guess? 'Yes, sir, very sharp indeed. Mr. Wynn's face by no means reflected the Yankee's smile.
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