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Rh poor 'divils of Dagoes,' as he called those who had been saved. The mate came and shook hands with the captain. The tears ran down Wardle's hairy face, and he could not speak. "I shall have another pair of binoculars over this," said Captain Amos Brown with quivering lips.

"You are a hero," bawled the mate as the wind roared again in a blinding squall with rain in it. The skipper flushed. "Oh, it's nothin' this," he said. "Now in the Bay of Bengal"

The wind took that story to loo'ard, and no one heard it. But they heard him wind up with 'gold-mounted binoculars.'

A year later he got a pair from the great French Republic. They were the first he ever got.