Identifier: aaroninwildwoods00harr (find matches)
Title: Aaron in the wildwoods
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908
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Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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book overboard and watchedit sink out of sight; then he pitched after it allthe pistols and muskets he could find. Finally, whenhe was taken on board the Phoebe next morning,he recognised the pet pig of the Essex, and claimedit as private property. The mid. who was in posses-sion refused to give it up; but the others decidedthat he must fight for it. David won the fightand the pig; but that satisfaction did not preventhim from bursting into tears immediately afterwards,when Captain Hillyar asked him to breakfast in hisown cabin. How Sir Peter Parker would have lovedthe boy for that! So did Captain Hillyar: Nevermind, my little fellow, he said very kindly, it will 286 THE BOOK OF THE BLUE SEA be your turn next, perhaps. David replied that hehoped so, and ran away to hide his tears. Captain Hillyar himself had little cause for rejoic-ing. He had lost only ^ve killed and ten wounded,but among the dead was his first lieutenant, WilliamIngram, a fine young officer whom he deeply regretted.
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The others decided that he must fight for it But the victory cost him dearer than that; his dutyhad compelled him to take every advantage of anenemy whom he knew and admired, and to strikedown a hundred brave men who were in a hopelessand almost defenceless position. He wrote home inhis official letter that the defence of the Essex,taking into consideration our superiority of force, DAVID FARRAGUT 287 the very discouraging circumstance of her havinglost her main-topmast and being twice on fire, didhonour to her brave defenders, and most fully evincedthe courage of Captain Porter and those under hiscommand. Her colours were not struck until theloss in killed and wounded was so awfully great, andher shattered condition so seriously bad, as to renderfurther assistance unavailing. The Essex was added to the British Navy, and waslaid up to rot in the years of peace with hundredsof other famous ships. But David Farragut to theend of his life remembered her heroic fight, andcompared it, as y

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