Chapter 101 A SEA-FIGHT

Would you hear of an old-time sea-fight?

Would you learn who won by the light of the moon and stars?

List to the yarn, as my grandmother's father the sailor told it to me.

'Our foe was no skulk in his ship, I tell you (said he),

His was the surly English pluck, and there is no tougher or truer, and never was, and never will be;

Along