. Twelve naval captains, being a record of certain Americans who made themselves immortal . and the inge could twist the never before seer? to Paul Jones, ing on the bowsp something Dificoul the bowsprit was s right. And serted, Dale says goUy-boat after if it were possible ti spelling, he was e( life, his manners handsome, and he w man. Paul Jones ready and willing to duty; and this willin distinguishing characteVistic When he was twelveVearsthe merchant servicean uncle of liis, a sea-cacareer of hard knocks; a;blue water ever had more and simplicity with which hes of the alphabet into formst
. Twelve naval captains, being a record of certain Americans who made themselves immortal . and the inge could twist the never before seer? to Paul Jones, ing on the bowsp something Dificoul the bowsprit was s right. And serted, Dale says goUy-boat after if it were possible ti spelling, he was e( life, his manners handsome, and he w man. Paul Jones ready and willing to duty; and this willin distinguishing characteVistic When he was twelveVearsthe merchant servicean uncle of liis, a sea-cacareer of hard knocks; a;blue water ever had more and simplicity with which hes of the alphabet into formstruly comical. In a lettering some work he was do-e boulsprit wasBut no doubtI, and got out allvoluntairs de-it to send theand peitainly got them,in spite of hise courtesies ofhis person was,nd capable sea-ays found Daleost hazardoushJs duty was theole life.! enteredage withegan hismen twho sailfalling. down the hold of his ship, and breaking Inost ofhis bones except those of his Imck and necj.; thenfollowed experiences of being mecked-werboardand battling in the sea an hour before being 29 TWELVE NAVAL CAPTAINS picked up; of being struck by ligbtning and re-maining unconscious for hours. From the timehe joined the navy of the colonies, he never wasin action without being either wounded or cap-tured and sometimes both. Three times was hebadly wounded, five times was he taken pris-oner; yet he managed to be in active serviceduring a great part of the war, and at last diedpeacefully in his bed, at a good old age. Almost as soon as war was declared, Dale, thena fine young fellow of nineteen, enlisted in thefeeble naval forces of the colonies ; and the veryfirst time he smelled powder, in 1776, he wascaptured by the British and taken to he was put on board a prison ship, wherehe found among the officers an old friend of his,a young Virginian, Bridges Gutteridge. Gut-teridge
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