Just think! We have been under fire five times, and only one man has been injured.

Why," he continued, and his hearers nodded assent, "I used to have the most awful visions--thought I saw the men lying round our gun in heaps, while fresh ones jumped to take the places of the fallen." "And they would," said messenger "Hop," who happened to be passing on his way aft to deliver an order.
The "Yankee" had seen some spirited fighting, though most of her crew had anticipated nothing more exciting than patrol duty.
Moreover, it was almost certain that we had not seen the end of active service.

At present, however, the crew settled down once more to the monotony of ship life in port--which is about equivalent to garrison duty for a soldier..