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"You do not use your left hand, captain; I hope you were not wounded in the affair this morning off St. Andrew's Bay."

โป็ ก เกอร์ "All ready, Mr. Flint," reported the third lieutenant, when he had completed the repairs on the steering gear. "I am willing to believe that he is doing his duty to his country, and his grand mistake is in 108 believing that the fraction of it in rebellion is his country." "I decline to be regarded as the hero of the adventure, as you call it; and it was not so stupid as you suggest," replied Christy, with the greatest good-nature. "Dave, sir," replied he, evidently deeply impressed by the visitor for some reason not yet apparent to the captain. "And by taking the bull by the horns, instead of waiting till the captain of the Sphinx concluded to take his chances of being captured in getting to sea, we have made the Bronx available for duty at once in another quarter, where she can do better work than in chewing her cable off the bar of Barataria," said the wounded commander, thus satisfying his conscience that he had done his duty.