Ensign Merrill — page 13: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

om ‘sHoREr 01 (PANY. Sean Coe oe, aa Peru aca a sans"? en : P ge: cot of oe ns ve i ing te all es of the Bary nae’ our part, as you know, we carry over A score, including in be ay he chartered bottoms. ’’ . a He paused as if to allow those eet ample time to Ps ‘r - grasp the magnitude of wealth possessed by the firm of aa Bevins & Rollins. His partner, the general, leaned aes in his chair, and smiled the complacent smile of prosperity, an expression reflected by all of the well- ie. to-do eToup. | »+**Now, for many years we have beena conn, he Jong suffering under a most annoying scourge,’ con- tinued the speaker, warming to his subject. Rising to | his feet, he impressively elevated one arm, and added: a “Need I name it?” ee **Pirates!’’? squeaked a little old man near the win- P7 dow, M. Benoit, a French merchant. At the word, the _ faces of all clouded over, and they repeated the expres- pou sion with bitter emphasis. Grasping a handful of _ documents from a convenient pigeon-hole, General Rol- '_ lins waved them in the air, and shouted. i ** Yes, pirates; teavan’ miserable yellow-skinned scoundrels that lie in wait for our inoffensive ships among the islands off the coast, and loot them. Here is the ease of the Emma Boyd, and the Ocean Foam, and the Betsy Bevins, and the—and the—’’ The old —_, man choked and sat down abruptly. od ‘Then there was that affair of only last month, when L our sailing vessel Stork was captured and Darnell aft being robbed,’’ spoke up a gentleman named Stubbs, representative of an Kinglish firm. Welaid en - before the Minister here, and also notified the Chin government, but what good did it do? The nee: | ‘Trenton, of the American Navy, and our man- -Of-We Diadem searched for them a couple of week cs , an éy ) ’ se then had to return here on account of native t tro ont} 1b, ro 4; OF ES Oa aa | | “ comicbooks. com |