"What steamer is that ?" The answer reached us in disjointed sentences, but we heard enough to set us laughing.

Tommy smacked his hand upon the breech of the gun and chuckled: "It's one of those everlasting press boats.

The sea is full of 'em." "What in the deuce did they run for, I wonder ?" exclaimed Kennedy.
"Afraid of us, I suppose.

It's ticklish times around here, and I don't blame them.

Press boats are not made to fight, you know." "That idea doesn't carry out their motto," drawled "Dye." "How's that ?" asked Flagg, innocently.
"Why, they claim that the pen is mightier than the sword, don't they ?" After the laugh had subsided, "Morrie," one of the Rochester detail, who acted as a shellman in the crew of Number Eight, said seriously: "I am a great admirer of the press representatives down here, fellows.
They are capable, good writers, and there is not a branch of the whole outfit that has been more faithful to duty.