Judge — October 4, 1902 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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_—____2——— FIGURING IT UP. The captain strode the quarter-deck; The crews were at the guns fag—Say, they tell me he's real|put.on black?” The powder flames leaped fiercely out, | efine’ as Bickers— Like as the lightning runs. Mame —* Dat's what! Afar the fortress rose, all grim, poured And bellowed in reply, Till smoke and fire and’ thunder sound Shook both the sea and sky. And the captain took His little book, And figured away, while his fingers shook: "2 into 10 goes 16 times, And the square of 12 is 79 is the cube of 6, And my deck is wet with gore. 53 is the G. C. D And 7 plus 2 is s— 4 And my ship is shot to a battered hulk, And I haven't a man alive!’ The other captain in the fort, Stood sadly on parade; The gatlings, siege, and other guns A fearsome racket made. They boomed across the troubled waves, Against the swooping ships, And as their echoes thrilled the The captain bit his lips. 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