. King's handbook of Boston harbor. andy, O ! But they never found their match, Till the Yankees did them catch,For the Yankee tars for fighting are the dandy, O 1 Oh, the Guerriere so bold, On the foaming ocean rolled,Commanded by proud Dacres the grandee, OI With as choice a British crew As a rammer ever drew,They could beat the Frenchmen two to one so handy, O! KING S HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. 243 The British had laughed enough at a navy which they said was composedof half a dozen of fir frigates with bits of striped bunting tied to theirmast-heads; and so soon Capt. Hull was able (o annou
. King's handbook of Boston harbor. andy, O ! But they never found their match, Till the Yankees did them catch,For the Yankee tars for fighting are the dandy, O 1 Oh, the Guerriere so bold, On the foaming ocean rolled,Commanded by proud Dacres the grandee, OI With as choice a British crew As a rammer ever drew,They could beat the Frenchmen two to one so handy, O! KING S HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. 243 The British had laughed enough at a navy which they said was composedof half a dozen of fir frigates with bits of striped bunting tied to theirmast-heads; and so soon Capt. Hull was able (o announce the capture ofthe Guerriere, dating his despatch, Off Boston During a considerable part of theWarof 1812, guard-boats were stationedhere every night, with rockets, which they were to send up in the event ofthe approach of hostile ships. In case of such an alarm, the reserve forcesencamped at South Boston were to be hurried into the forts, with fieldartillery; and the frigates in the inner harbor were to bear down on the. L. View across Hull Bay, from Peddocks Island. channel. Fortunately the rockets were not needed, and the liveliest nightin Boston Harbor is still to come. The Navy Club of Harvard College commemorated a tradition that oneday during the War of 1812 the senior class was enjoying a sail in thelower harbor, when their little craft was pounced upon and captured bythe boats of one of the British blockaders. After a brief captivity, thepining lads were set free, and returned to Cambridge with their love ofadventure thrown far in abeyance. For thirty years or more thereafter,the Navy Club sailed down the harbor on every recurring Artillery-Election 244 KING S HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. day, but His Britannic Majestys mariners troubled them no more. TheLord High Admiral of Harvard was always the young gentleman who hadthe most friends in his class and the most enemies in the Faculty, and whohad been suspended at least once. Here the Indepettdence, 74, the fl
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