Identifier: aaroninwildwoods00harr (find matches)
Title: Aaron in the wildwoods
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908
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Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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rule by not firing herself. Still, as Charles knew
by this time, firing or standing fire is not the only
way of serving your country, and he longed for
the little Amiable to be present at a big battle, and
do her part with the other frigates.
In the meantime the French gave signs of being
very unwilling to come out, and there was the
captured Spanish gold to be taken to Malta. It
had been in the Royal Sovereign and Defiance, and
when Captain Durham of the Defiance asked what
he was to do with these troublesome casks, Lord
Nelson, who had no frigates to spare just then, re-
plied, " If the Spaniards come out, fire the dollars
at them, and pay them off in their own coin! But

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now that L'Aimiable had arrived, he divided the
money between her and the Amphion. They were
to sail together to Gibraltar, and from there
L'Aimiable was to go on with another frigate, the
Renommée, and take a convoy to Malta. You may
be sure that they lost no time, going or coming, but
when they reached Gibraltar, on the way back, they
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There lay four ships of the line

saw in the Bay a sight which told them all they
had missed. There lay four ships of the line, French
and Spanish, so battered that it seemed wonderful
they should ever have been brought there still
floating. Two of them were the Bahama and the
French Swiftsure, both of which had been attacked
in turn by the Bellerophon and Colossus two of
our hardest fighters, and the Swiftsure had also

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had a final broadside from the Orion. Another was
the San Juan Nepomuceno, who had stood up to
the Belleisle, and afterwards to the Mars and at
last had to strike her flag to the Dreadnought. The
most damaged of all was the San Ildefonso; her
enemies had been first the Polyphemus, then the
Defiance, and lastly the Thunderer; they had cut
her masts and rigging to pieces, killed and wounded
one third of her crew, and battered holes in her
sides that a coach-and-four could have driven
through. It was a thrilling sight; but it was almost
forgotten a moment afterwards when the harbour

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