Chapter 99 HERVé RIEL

On the sea and at the Hogue, sixteen hundred ninety-two,

Did the English fight the French,-woe to France!

And, the thirty-first of May, helter-skelter thro' the blue,

Like a crowd of frightened porpoises a shoal of sharks pursue,

Came crowding ship on ship to St. Malo on the Rance,

With the English fleet in view.

'Twas the squadro