The Yankee Champion — page 46: what you’re looking at

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(HE YANKEE CHAMPION. §+~——~—~OY “Dreamed part of it, and guessed the other part. We Yankees are great for guessing.”’ The Englishman bit his lips and looked offended. “What do you intend to do with the brig?” he at length asked. ‘‘Mean to put a few Yankee improvements on her, and then use her for a chopping-knife.”’ “Hh? What?’ “Use her to chop up your king’s transports and store-ships with, | mean.’’ “How will you have her run, Captain Nixon?”’ asked Baker, coming up at this moment. Walter left the side of the crestfallen Englishman and went to the wheel, and after calculating a mo- - ment, he said: “You may get the courses on *her, Mr. Baker, and we’ll stand on this tack until we can make a straight leg into the port. See that all the rigging is ready and clear for running.’’ The wind still held from the northward and west- ward, and the brig was not long in making.a point from whence she could easily stand into the harbor, and long before daylight her anchors were dropped in the mud of the Merrimac River, her sails snugly furled, and all made ready for warping her up to one of the wharves in the morning. » When at length the bright sun arose, sending its beams to glance at the frost and glittering icicles, the few people who were stirring were not a little startled at seeing the English brig at anchor off the town, butin amoment more they noticed that the proud flag of England was only at, half-mast, and above it, gallantly waving in the breeze, floated the flage of the colonies, with its pure white field, its pine Comicbooks (Ge) mn