StNicholas [serial] . Copyright, 1907, by Enrique PRACTICE ON THE OLYMPIA. After the victory over the Alabama, twenty ofthe Kearsarge crew in solemn covenant sworethey would never desert the navy while UncleSam had a plank afloat, and to render the vowbinding they each consented to be tattooed in amanner that would unfit them for any other sta-tion in life. Purdy is the only member of thegang I have seen. I understand there are five orsix of them still on the sea. These men are not only living relics of a greatbattle; they are animated encyclopedia of the 410 THREE YEARS BEHIND T
StNicholas [serial] . Copyright, 1907, by Enrique PRACTICE ON THE OLYMPIA. After the victory over the Alabama, twenty ofthe Kearsarge crew in solemn covenant sworethey would never desert the navy while UncleSam had a plank afloat, and to render the vowbinding they each consented to be tattooed in amanner that would unfit them for any other sta-tion in life. Purdy is the only member of thegang I have seen. I understand there are five orsix of them still on the sea. These men are not only living relics of a greatbattle; they are animated encyclopedia of the 410 THREE YEARS BEHIND THE GUNS [Mar., navy, looking with small favor on modern war-fare, jumping at an opportunity to refer to thegood old times when they had iron men and reign to my own fancy, and in its flight I recog-nized in the black-ringed gull upon the foretruckthe reincarnation of the boatswain of the Kear-sarge, and in the whis-. Copyriglu, 1907, by Enrique MullcGUN-DRILL ON THE OLYMFIA. wooden ships, leaving the inference that we arewooden men on iron ships. There are two of ourveterans quietly filling the niches that Time hascarved for them; but it is only necessary forsome jolly young tar to say: To-day is the nine-teenth of June; directly the dead embers of dis-sension kindle into a flame amidst whose crack-ling may be heard the hissing sound of rebel,white flag, and traitor,—an unfailing pre-lude to a rough-and-tumble, hand-to-hand fightthat might continue to the bitter end were it notthat the tormentors who start the fray alwaysstep in and separate them. The next day theyare as good friends as ever. I well recall that it was Purdy who first openedmy eyes to. a full understanding of the distress ofthe Ancient Mariner. It is his firm belief (and he is not alone in it)that in every bird of the sea there dwells the im-mortal soul of a sailor. Whenever I see the old man silently watchingthe sea-fowls as the
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