The Pine-tree coast . benevolence indeed; this is truefame! k 11 ii;kv AND THE PISCATAQUA L9 From books to bombs the transition is Bomewhal violent, I admit, butinevitable here, only a shorl walk onward takes one across the bridge leadinginto the Navy Yard Faith, the place is as peaceful as a countrychurchyard! Pert little sparrows were chirruping about the big guns in theartillery park, just as if they knew them to be only so much old iron encumber-ing the ground, or had heard the official utterance so lately given out. that thisonce famous dockyard was little better than a ruin. Go
The Pine-tree coast . benevolence indeed; this is truefame! k 11 ii;kv AND THE PISCATAQUA L9 From books to bombs the transition is Bomewhal violent, I admit, butinevitable here, only a shorl walk onward takes one across the bridge leadinginto the Navy Yard Faith, the place is as peaceful as a countrychurchyard! Pert little sparrows were chirruping about the big guns in theartillery park, just as if they knew them to be only so much old iron encumber-ing the ground, or had heard the official utterance so lately given out. that thisonce famous dockyard was little better than a ruin. Going to ruin for want oftimely attention to its needs would have more aptly expressed, perhaps, itspresent condition. All the world loves a sailor. When did our own Yankee tars ever fail touphold the honor of the dear old gridiron. Not since it first floated from thetruck of yonder ship, now daubed over with unseemly ochre, and desecratedwith a roof of pine boards, thus converting it into a sort of Xoahs Ark, adapted i. OLD HOUSE OUTSIDE PORTSMOUTH. for the reception of some floating menagerie. In truth, one almost expects to seethe sign For Sale, or To Let hung out over her side ! Tell me. messmate,what ship is that, which Davy Crockett would have cleverly hit off as halfhorse and half alligator. That, sir, says my amiable conductor, with ashrug, is the frigate Coyistitution. What, that nondescript thing. —that Old Ironsides . *We went up over the dear old barkys side, where Hull received Dacressword; Bainbridge, Lamberts; and Stewart, not to be outdone, took a brace ofthem under his arm at once. Shade of Bellona . And must we then board thishistoric battle-ship through a landlubbers door, instead of by the gangway?Once more I read that inspiriting motto affixed over the cabin front, so familiarto every schoolboy in his teens, u Dont give up the ship ! then gave a glanceat the rough rafters overhead, in some doubt as to where I was standing, andgrewT hot and cold over the cro
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