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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
August
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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e Trt;sea ror snuaaering as i waiicea Across the body of a Jead soldier. I hastened down the fore ladder to the lower deck and feit really relieved to flnd somebody alive; from thence I reached the fore cockpit, where I waa obliged to wait a few minutes for my cargo and after this pause I feit something like regret, if not fear, as I remounted the ladder on my return. Thia, however, entirely subsided when I saw the sun shlning and the old blue ensign flying as lofty as ever. I never feit the genuine sense of glory so completely as at that moment and if I had seen any one attempt to haul that ensign down I couli have run aft and shot him dead in as determined a manner as the celebrated Paul Jones. I took off my nat by an involuntary motion and gave three cheers as I jumped onto the quarterdeck. Col. Hutchinson welcomed me at my quarters as if I had been on a hazardous enterprise and had returned in triumph. Mr. Yelland also expressed great satisfaction at seeing me in such high spirits and so active.

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Register