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A Gunner Aboard the """"Yankee""""

CHAPTER IX
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Shake it up." "They are in an almighty hurry," grumbled "Bill." "The forts won't move.
They'll be there to-morrow, I guess.

Well, as I was saying, the villagers concealed themselves behind convenient tombstones and waited to see what the lazy man would do when he woke up.

By and by day broke, and just as the sun gilded the windows of the old church the fellow who was buried up to his neck----" "Chase those mess chests below, bullies," called out the boatswain's mate, dropping down the ladder a few feet away.

"Lively there; the 'old man' wants to break a record.

When you have finished, hustle to the oil and paint lockers and help carry all inflammable material to the spar deck." For several minutes "Bill" worked away in silence.


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