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Mills, my rivle in Halbany; Mr. Rodgers himself. "The above was wrote some weeks back. I HAVE given brekfst sins then, reglar Deshunys. I have ad Earls and Ycounts Barnits as many as I chose: and the pick of the Railway world, of which I form a member. Last Sunday was a grand Fate. I had the Eleet of my friends: the display was sumptious; the company reshershy.
I had the privilege also of reading the works of Mrs. Fletcher, Hester Ann Rodgers, and John Wesley. For the privilege of reading all these, I give God thanks. I put the experiences of which I read to a practical test, thus proving that what God had done for others, he would do for me also.
Good God! that a few short months should have so altered the tone of British sentiments! Is it true, or is it not, that our navy was accustomed to hold the Americans in utter contempt? Is it true, or is it not, that the Guerrière sailed up and down the American coast with her name painted in large characters on her sails in boyish defiance of Commodore Rodgers?
The convoy that Broke thus accompanied has been curiously confused with the one of which Rodgers believed himself in pursuit; and the British naval historian James chuckles obviously over the blunder of the Yankee commodore, who returned to Boston "just six days after the 'Thalia', having brought home her charge in safety, had anchored in the Downs."
In that year Captain Rodgers, who for four years had been on the lower Colorado, took the steamboat Esmeralda, ninety-seven feet long and drawing three and one-half feet of water, up as far as Callville, near the mouth of the Virgen, which was several miles beyond the highest point attained by Ives in his skiff, but little, if any, farther than Johnson had gone with his steamboat.
The boys had chosen the last of the ebb tide for the trip down Rodgers River, which gave them low water for their work on the clam bar and a flood tide to help them up Harney's River. They made a false start at the mouth of the river by taking a channel that ran too far to the east and led them a mile or two out of their course, before they discovered their mistake and returned.
Suddenly the glass door opened. The money-lender heard the handle move. "Eh, what is it, Rodgers?" he said, in a displeased tone. As he spoke he peered through the smoke. "What d'you want?" he exclaimed angrily. Then he rubbed his eyes and craned forward only to fall back again with a muttered curse. He had stared into the muzzle of a heavy six-shooter.
"I thought sure there was another case of it under the counter, boys," he explained. "But it happened to be catterdges." "You've sure got a case of happenedicitis," said Poky Rodgers, fency rider of the Largo Verde potrero . "Somebody ought to happen to give you a knock on the head with the butt end of a quirt.
Uncertainty as to Rodgers' position and intentions led Captain Broke, on July 29, to join a homeward-bound Jamaica fleet, under convoy of the frigate "Thalia", some two or three hundred miles to the southward and eastward of Halifax, and to accompany it with his division five hundred miles on its voyage.
Hastily he wrote a note on a piece of paper. "Send one of your men to my headquarters with that," he said, handing it to Woodward to read: RODGERS, Send new submarine telescope by bearer. You will find it in case No. 17, closet No. 3. "Right away," nodded Woodward, comprehending and calling a soldier whom he dispatched immediately with hurried instructions.
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