Granny and big dog
While there are no complete figures for the whole period of the war obtainable, it is not to be believed that quite so high a record was maintained, for dread of privateers soon drove British shipping into their harbors, whence they put forth, if at all, under the protection of naval convoys.The granny and big dog English captain then thought it his turn to interrogate, and asked the name of our ship.Fire spread with amazing rapidity, and, running down the after rigging, it soon communicated with her magazine, when her whole stern was blown off, and her valuable cargo emptied into the sea.The peas granny and big dog were about as digestible as grape shot and the butter had it not been for its adhesive properties to retain together the particles of biscuit that had been so riddled by the worms as to lose all their attraction of cohesion, we should not have considered it a desirable addition to our viands.Privateering, like all irregular service, was demoralizing, not alone to the men engaged in it, but to the youth of the country as well.Such was, indeed, the end of many of the most gallant of the Revolutionary privateersmen but squalid and cruel as was granny and big dog the fate of these unfortunates, it had no effect in deterring others from seeking fortune in the same calling.Vincent so effectively for five days that the inhabitants sent off a pitiful appeal to Admiral Durham to send a frigate to their relief.The two ships were so near to each other that we could distinguish the officers from the men and I particularly noticed the captain granny and big dog on the gangway, a noble looking man, having a large gold laced cocked hat on his head, and a speaking trumpet in his hand.Tom Cringle, after detailing with a lively description the capture of a Yankee privateer, says that she was assigned to him for his next command.The granny and big dog men rallied.
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