The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-22
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Yet, lor'! we never dreamt as how the Chinese
meant fight;
There's mostwise more of bark, you know, in
them there chaps than bite.
Leastways we thought if it came to blows,
they have to pay the bill,
For we didn't see no troops about, and the
forts lay wonderful still
But Yankee frigate below the bar had heard
and seen bit,
And their adm raj s cox EN- said to me, You'll
ind you're chewin grit.
That self-same adm 'raI-Tattnall-f ag-orficer
they called i'm,
Was rum'un, so they all agreed, when things
went wrong and CALLED m;
Yet he was an excellent ordcer-rough,
prhaps, but bluff and hearty,
And very PARTICULAR friends with Adm raj
Hope and the British party
Though l did hear tell that, in eighteen
twelve, in the old American war,
He fought as a mid agin us, and no one hated
Us more.
His cox'en, who told me that, explained-and
it may be true, pose
That a family quarle. amt the same as row
with outside foes;
Young brothers will fail to loggerheads, and
night to their hearts content;
And, in course it's Lad enough to see, but
their ain no lastln rent:
And, from what / saw IN Chimney, 1 tell you,
shan't complain if never have better
friend than Yank.
Well, the Chinese beggars promised as they'd
do as we desired,
And open the way; but they didn't stir, and
our Adm raj he got tired:
And at last says he, We must force the forts,
and Dlrstthe eomts all three.
And ear the road TO 11entsin, that our En-
voy may go free. "
So he took his gunDoats across the lar, and
passed the word of warnin:
BE T, ady to morrow, the twenty fifth, at
half past four in The mornin'."
The first boom was of iron piles; the second,
of heavy spars;
The third, of tim Der oaulks, oss-lashed, and
tied with iron bars.
The Chesapeake skipper, Captain Willes,
that night, with GOAT or two
Crept up in the dark and nearly cut the Sec
But the Chinee rascaIs. bless your heart,
were not to be done that way,
And they made the who-e thing good again by
dawn the folIoWln day.
was then A. B. in the Plover, which hoisted
the blue at the miZen.
When the Adm raj came with his staff to our
little packet from his n.
The 'Possum was sent to the first boom, and
moored to il close as could be:
There was likewise the starting and Janus
the Cormorant keStr5l aud Lee,
Not forgettin the Bantrer and Nimrod, and
lower down, nearly ABREAST
The Baughty and orrester, formin' kind OF
reserve 10 the rest.
The channel was narrow and awlz ard, and
the stream ran strong in our faces,
And it wasn't no easy matter TO get our
proper places:
The Sterling stuck in the mud on the left,
the bant rer stuck en- the right,
And the others had many nasty shave OF
get.in no share IN the hight;
But Oy two clock in the afternoon, we were
most OF us near to our stations,
And The 'Possum, ~ Adm raj orders, began
TO commence operations.
she had made hawser fast 10 one Of them
spiked iron piles.
And she tuQged aud rugged at the thing, and
she blew of steam meanwhtles:
| II set me laughin' TO see her, for couldn't
help thinkln', in truth
II was lust like little dentist along OF a
stubt orn tooth.
But the pile came out, at last, and gave the
'Possum room.
And she and the Plover together moved up
the second boom.
never saw a loyelier day: the sun was hot
and the sky -
was as dark and deep a kind OF blue as the
Adm rails nag In the fly;
And when " Q neared the second boom. ana All
lay calm and still. -
n began TO seem n the Chlnee braves we're
wautiu' In pluck or VIII.
nut bless YOU sir we did them wrong Tor
suddenly every gun
In the iOrts blaxed down on our little Craft
there we're thirty ave II one