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MAGGIE STONE TAKES MUCH UPON HERSELF Shortly before midnight, Tom Bent went quietly about the task of waking both watches and the Beothics. The three boats from Fort Beatrix were manned, with the muf…
WHILE THE SPARS ARE SCRAPED It is difficult to imagine the feelings of the skippers and crews of the good ship Plover and Mary and Joyce , when the gray light of dawn disclosed the fact that the Hea…
THE FIRST STAGE OF THE HOMEWARD VOYAGE IS BRAVELY ACCOMPLISHED At nine o'clock of the morning of the twenty-second day of June, the bow of the Heart of the West was towed around and pointed dow…
IN THE MERRY CITY The Heart of the West was boarded by a lieutenant of infantry, inside the Narrows, and was quickly piloted to a berth on the north side of the great harbour, where her anchors were…
PIERRE D'ANTONS SIGNALS HIS OLD COMRADES, AND AGAIN PUTS TO SEA The wilderness, that grim thing of naked rock, brown barren, gray marsh, and black wood, which had claimed the mad baronet so sure…
THE BRIDEGROOM ATTENDS TO OTHER MATTERS THAN LOVE The dainty bride leaned on her husband's arm, and together they looked back and waved farewell. Flags answered them from the battery above the c…
OVER THE SIDE With a fearful grinding of timbers and rattling of spars, the merchantman's larboard bow scraped along the enemy's side. Boarding-irons were thrown across from the forecastle-…
THE MOTHER Dame Kingswell, the widow of that good merchant of Bristol whom Queen Elizabeth had knighted in her latter days, sat in her chamber and looked down upon a pleasant garden beneath the windo…
