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Rh chasers. "They're but at long bowls yet," cried Kennedy in great exultation, "but they will be closer bye and bye.D—n him, he's starting his cargo! I see the good Nantz pitching overboard, keg after keg!–that's a dd ungenteel thing of Mr Hatteraick, as I shall let him know bye and bye.—Now, now! they've got the wind of him!—that's it, that's it!—hark to him! hark to him!—now, my dogs! now, my dogs!—hark to Ranger, hark!"

"I think," said the old gardener to one of the maids, "the gauger's fie;" by which word the common people express those violent spirits which they think a presage of death.

Meantime the chase continued. The lugger, being pilotted with great ability, and using every nautical shift to make her escape, had now reached, and was about to double, the head-land which formed the extreme point of land on the left side of the bay, when a ball having hit the yard in the slings, the main-sail