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Rh their side, as they had but to upset the frail crafts of the Spanish in order to create the  most utter rout in the ranks of the enemy.

From the window the children watched the strange spectacle, the room being frequently  illuminated by the glare from the cannons. So near were they, that even the shouts and cries reached them distinctly, and once was  borne to them across the waters, the “Song  of the Beggars” uplifted in a swelling chorus  of triumphant voices:

Then the fleet swept on, and though the sound of shouting and cannonading diminished but little, the battle passed out of the  range of the children’s vision.

When morning dawned over the waste of gray waters, it revealed a weird and