ve, except at school, and I
never had no time to go there. Do you see that battery at Needham Point?
Well, in the hurricane of '82, them same guns were whirled away by the
wind, right over to this point here on the opposite side, the sentries
in their sentry-boxes after them. Some of the soldiers who faced the
wind had their teeth blown down their throats like broken 'baccy-pipes,
others had their heads turned round like dog vanes, 'cause they waited
for orders to the '_right about face_,' and the whole air was full of
young _niggers_ blowing about like peelings of _ingons_."

"You don't suppose I believe all this, Swinburne?"

"That's as may be, Mr Simple, but I've told the story so often, that I
believe it myself."

"What ship were you in?"

"In the _Blanche_, Captain Faulkner, who was as fine a fellow as poor
Captain Savage, whom we buried yesterday; there could not be a finer
than either of them. I was at the taking of the Pique, and carried him
down below after he had received his mortal wound. We did a pretty thing
out here when we took Fort Royal by a coup-de-_main_, which means,
boarding from the _main_-yard of the frigate, and dropping from it into
the fort. But what's that under the moon?--there's a sail in the
offing."

Swinburne fetched the glass and directed it to the spot. "One, two,
three, four. It's the admiral, sir, and the squadron hove-to for the
night. One's a line-of-battle ship, I'll swear." I examined the vessels,
and agreeing with Swinburne, reported them to Mr Falcon. My watch was
then over, and as soon as I was released I went to my hammock.

END OF VOL. I.

TURNBULL AND SPEARS, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH.

PETER SIMPLE

AND

THE THREE CUTTERS

BY

CAPTAIN MARRYAT

VOL. II.

LONDON

J.M. DENT AND CO.

BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN AND CO.

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Contents

VOLUME II

PETER SIMPLE

CHAPTER XXXI 1

CHAPTER XXXII 12

CHAPTER XXXIII 24

CHAPTER XXXIV 38

CHAPTER XXXV 45

CHAPTER XXXVI 53

CHAPTER XXXVII 59

CHAPTER XXXVIII