SHIP AHOY! 



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sorry to say, offering any to the others, 

 some of whom are Imsy making buds, 

 out of Avhich in due time will eome 

 new ships' crews; while others again, 

 with long, streaming tentacles some- 

 times thirty feet long, are the moving 

 power, and, swimming along, carry 

 the tiny vessel through the water. 



And now, how does this crew fight? 

 Where are their muskets, their cut- 

 asses? Where are the ship's guns? 

 They don't seem to have any weapons 

 at all. ]S^o, the truth is, they have no 

 weapons, because they have no need 

 of any. They can fight a creature a 

 liundred times as big as themselves 

 and their ship put together, and come 



:-V^ 





off victorious, with flying colors. I will tell you a story which a 

 gentleman told me once, about his meeting a Portuguese man-of- 

 war; then you will understand all about it. 



