The Pine-tree coast . nevolence indeed; this is truefame! KITTERV AND THE PISCATAQUA. 19 From books to bombs the transition is somewhat violent, I admit, hutinevitable here. Only a short walk onward takes one across the bridge leadiu-into the Navy Yard grounds.^ Faith, the place is as peaceful as a counti-ychurchyard! 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
The Pine-tree coast . nevolence indeed; this is truefame! KITTERV AND THE PISCATAQUA. 19 From books to bombs the transition is somewhat violent, I admit, hutinevitable here. Only a short walk onward takes one across the bridge leadiu-into the Navy Yard grounds.^ Faith, the place is as peaceful as a counti-ychurchyard! 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, perha])s. itspresent condition. All the world loves a sailor. When did our own Yankee tars ever fail touphold the honor of the dear old gridiron ? Xot since it first floated from thetruck of yonder ship, now daulxd over with unseemly ochre, and desecratedwith a roof of pine Ijoards. thus converting it into a sort of jSToahs Ark, adapted. 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 Constitntio)!. 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 bi-ace olthem under his arm at once. Shade of Bellona I And nnist we then board thishistoiic 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, Dont give up the ship ! then gave a glanceat the rough rafters overhead, in some doubt as to where I was standing, andgrew hot and cold over the crow
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