, 1910-10-15

with n wooden leg, boarded 1t just AS Gho
quarterlnaster TEL up yelling that the snip
was full OF powder and was going to blow up.
He tried to lump overheard, but The lieu
tenant seized BIN by the collar and. stump
inc along, nude BIN lead the way 10 the
magazine A fuse had been laid to an open
key of powder, aud the fire was sputterlng
within an inch of it when Lieutenant TondeI
plucked it out, smOthertd it between thumb
and f%oretnger, and threw it through the
nearest port hole. Thore were two hundred
barrels Of powder in the ship.
Tordenskiold had kept his word to the
King. Not as much rs IA ynwl of the Dyne-
kiln fleet was left to tho enemy. He had
sunk or burned thirteen aud captured thirty
one ships with his seven, and all the piled up
munitions of war were ia bis hands. hing
CLurle3 gave up the siege, marched his army
out Of Norway, and the country was saved.
The victory cost Tordenskjold but nineteen
killed aud fifty seven wounded On his own
ship six men were killed and twenty wound
ed.
OF infinite variety was this s~ea-tighter.
After q victory like this, one hears Of him IN
the next breath gratifying II passing whim Of
the King, who wanted to know what the
Swedish people thought of their Government
after Charles's long wars, that ure said to
hnvo cost their country II million men. Tor
denskiold overheard it, had himself rowed
across to Sweden, picked up there "a we'd
ding party, bridegroom, minister, gueStS,ah0
all, including the captain of the shore watch,
who was among them, and returned ia time
for the palace dinner with his catch. kluG
Frederick was entertaining Cznr Peter the
Great, who had been Boosting of the unhes-
itating loyalty Of his men, which his Danish
host could not match. lie now had the tables
turned upon him. 1t is recorded that the
King sent the party back with royal gifts
for tho bride. Ono would be glad to add
that Tordonskjold sent back too the silver
pitcher and the parlor clock his mon took
on their visit. But he didn't. They were
still in Copenhagen Il hundred years later,
and may be they are there yet. 1t was not
like his usual g"llantry toward the fair sex.
But perhaps he didn't know anything about
it.
Then we find him, after an unsuccessful
attack on Gotoborg that cost many lives,
sending in his adjutnnt to congratulate the
Swedish communicate Oh their gallant en-
counter" the duy before, and exchanging
presents with him III tOke n Of mutual regard.
And before one con turn tho pWge he IS
discovered sweeping down upon Marstrand,
taking town aud fleet anchored There, and
the castle itsolf with its whole garrison, oil
with two hundred mon, swelled by strata8em
into an army Of thousands. We are told
that On officer sent out from the castle to
parley, issuing forth from a generous dinner,
heheld the bosieging army drawn up IN
street aEtur street, always two hundred men
around every corner, rs he made his way
through the town, pilotod by Tordenskjold
himself, who was careful to take him the
longest way. while the men took the short
cut to the next block. The man returned
homo with tho message that the town was
full of them and that resistance was useless.
The russo smpcks of Peder Vessels boyish
fight with Il much bigger fellow who had
beaten him once by gripping has long
halr, and so getting hi, head in chancory.
But Peder had taken uo1ice. NGXt time he
came to the encounter with hun cut short
and his whole head smeared with soft soup,
and that time he won.
The most extraordinary of all his adyen-
lures befell when, after the attack on Strom-
stad, he was hasteuing home to Copenhagen.
Crossing the Kattegnt in Il little smack that
carried but two three pound guns, he was
chased and oyertaken by aSwedish trigate of
sixteen guns and II crew of sixty men. Tordon-