The Battle of Black Dog

'I will sit down, if you please, and talk square, like old shipmates,' he said. He bade me go and leave the door wide open. 'If it comes to swinging, swing all, say I.' Then there was a tremendous explosion of oats and other noises. The next instant I saw a black dog in full flight, and the captain hotly pursuing,. Both with drawn cutlasses, and the former streaming blood from the left shoulder. Just at the door the captain aimed at the fugitive one last tremendous cut which would certainly have split into the chine had it not been intercepted by our big signboard of Admiral Benbo. That blow was the last of the battle

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