Heavy shot crashed through their sides, and Dick expected every instant to see some one of them sunk by a huge exploding shell.
"They can't win! They can't win!" he exclaimed.

"They'd better draw off before they're sunk!" "So they had," said Warner sadly.

"Boats are at a disadvantage fighting batteries.

The old darky was right when he preferred a train wreck to a boat wreck, 'ef the train's smashed, thar you are on the solid ground, but ef the boat blows up, whar is you ?' That's sense.

The boats are retiring! It's sad, but it's sense.