. A gallop among American scenery; or, Sketches of American scenes and military adventure . ^ upon their oars and be taken, thathe consented. Theres them as says the Niagara wouldnt come down,and theres them as savs she couldn t; all I know is, that when 62 OLD KENNEDY, THE QUARTER-MASTER our gallant young Commodore took the quarter-deck, shewalked down into the thickest of it quick enough—my eyes !how we did give it to em, blazing away from both sides atonce. We ran in between the Detroit and Charlotte, ourguns crammed to the muzzle, and delivered both of ourbroadsides into them at the same t
. A gallop among American scenery; or, Sketches of American scenes and military adventure . ^ upon their oars and be taken, thathe consented. Theres them as says the Niagara wouldnt come down,and theres them as savs she couldn t; all I know is, that when 62 OLD KENNEDY, THE QUARTER-MASTER our gallant young Commodore took the quarter-deck, shewalked down into the thickest of it quick enough—my eyes !how we did give it to em, blazing away from both sides atonce. We ran in between the Detroit and Charlotte, ourguns crammed to the muzzle, and delivered both of ourbroadsides into them at the same time, grape, cannister andall, raking the others as we passed, and the Niagara lads. showed it wasnt no fault of theirn that they hadnt comeearlier to their work. I never knowd guns sarved smarter,than they sarved theirn, till the end of the action, nor withbetter effect. We soon silenced the enemy, and run up thestars again on the Lawrence as she lay a complete wrack,shattered and cut up among them, for all the world like adead whale surrounded by shirks. They struck one after OLD KENNEDY, THE QUARTER-MASTER 63 another, much like you may have seen the flags of a fleetrun down after the evening gun; and as the firing ceased,and the heavy smoke-bank rolled off to leeward, shiver mytimbers ! but it was a sight for a Yankee tar to see, thestriped bunting slapping triumphantly in the breeze overthe British jacks at their gaffs. If theres any man, tho, as sa3s that their Commodorewasnt a man, every inch of him, aye ! and as good a seaman,too, as ever walked a caulked plank, theres one here, andhis name is Bill Kennedy, as will tell him that hes a know-nothing, and talks of
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