ILLUSTRATIONS
[My boy wanted to do the divin', but 'twas me that went down]
[He brings out the blue-book and shows the boson]
[Sam made a couple of tremendous swipes, and then down went the Aurora's captain and one of his crew]
[By and by he caught an answering call]
[After a long look I saw that he did not resume his narrative. By that I knew that the stranger was troubling him]
[There she was, the Dancing Bess, holding a taut bowline to the eastward. And there were the two frigates, but they might as well have been chasing a star]
["Don't call me a mutineer, captain—I've disobeyed no order"]
[He said he hoped they'd meet again next day and bowed himself out]
[pg 1]