Identifier: stnicholasserial31dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ork was growing more and more ravenous for things not salty.The Eagle almost preferred bagging a pig to a marine. Therefore, as a bait, aboard the Yankee were taken a live sheep, and a live calf,and some other barn-yard dainties, and stowed in the hold — to be afterward placed on deck so as to be in plain sight at the right moment. With the sheep baa-mg and the calf maa-ing, with ten armed men in the cabin, twenty-seven forward in the hold, and three, apparently unarmed, with Sailing-Master Percival, all clad in common fishermans garb, on deck, early in the morning of Monday, the 5th, the Yankee left the cove and stood up along the coast as if 817 LIVE STOCK FOR THE COMMODORE. (July, innocently bound on a fishing cruise to the Besides, word had been passed around that this Banks of Newfoundland or Nova Scotia. At the sametime the people of New York City Jubilee was to be celebrated in a special way. Shortly afternoon the Yankee,with her load visible and invisible,was off Sandy Hook. The posi-
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THE POICTIERS FIRED A FEW INEFFECTUAL SHOTS. THE POSITION OF THE CHANNEL MADE IT NECESSARY FOR THE YANKEE TO PASS CLOSE TO THE FORMIDABLE POICTIERS. were collecting on the Battery; for doubt- tion of the channel made it necessary for herless the Columbian Jubilee did not let folks to pass close to the formidable Poictiers, who,sleep any later than does our Fourth of July, with only a few of her sails set, was leisurely 1904. LIVE STOCK FOR THE COMMODORE. 819 moving out to sea. The warship, having no quarrel with an unarmed and disreputable-looking fishing-smack, permitted her to proceed unmolested. The Yankee headed toward the Long Island shore, where it was thought the Eagle might be cruising. Finally the officious Eagle spied her. Sail in sight, sir. About two points off our weather bow, sir, reported little Midshipman Price, aboard the Britisher, to Masters MateMorris. Looks like a Yankee smack, murmured that officer as he scanned her through his glass.He felt his temper rising. What does

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