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subjects manifold for another hour, when 

 the Captain, suddenly dropping his field 

 glass with the remark, " Thet 'ere boy be 

 wavin' his cap teh come in," made off in 

 the dingy, poling with all his might 

 toward the battery. 



"The water is the eldest daughter of the creation, 

 the element upon which the Spirit of God did first 

 move." 



ISAAK WALTON. 



