A sailor boy with Dewey

“Where he always is, in his cabin, more than half intoxicated. I tell you, Dan, I would never have taken passage on the _Dart_ had I known what sort of a man Captain Kenny was....

At that instant Dawson, the mate, came up. He had been standing behind the mainmast and had heard every word uttered. His face showed plainly that he was greatly troubled.

Collecting my scattered senses as best I could, I arose and caught Dan by the arm. Soon we were mounting the companion-way stairs, two steps at a time. As we emerged into the op...

I was in a tremble of excitement, and for the moment forgot all about my own peril. Since coming to the far East, or West, as you will, I had become greatly attached to Dan Holb...

To Watt Brown’s vigorous questioning Captain Kenny returned not a word. Either he was still unconscious or he had recovered and come to the conclusion that he had best remain qu...

The sight that met our gaze was a small boat dancing far out beyond the breakers. It contained three men, and as it came in closer, through the opening by which we had entered,...

Tom Dawson’s discovery filled us with amazement and satisfaction: amazement because all of us had thought that the schooner lay at the bottom of the China Sea and satisfaction f...

But Dawson was mistaken, as we found out later. During the past the natives had known but little of pistols and guns, but now for several years they had seen them in the hands o...

“Can’t say as to that either--maybe killed ’em all off and stewed ’em in the pot,” and with a voluminous sigh the first mate of the _Dart_ turned over and fell into a light doze.

“We seem to be moving up a hill. Let us keep on until the top is gained. I am sure that will take us away from the village, and that is what we want.”

Morning dawned as mornings do in the tropics. There is no gradual coming on of daylight. The sun came up in all of its fiery splendor, and day was at hand, hot, oppressive, and...

I had a club which I had been using in knocking over game, and this I held ready for any emergency which might present itself. Slowly the three newcomers came closer, then stopp...

A good sleep during the night had rested me thoroughly; so, while the others sat around, talking or smoking “home-made” cigars, made out of some native tobacco which Matt Gory h...

“It’s a long story, lad. But where have you been these five or six days? You don’t mean to say you left our party on purpose? Or did those rascally natives capture you?”

I must confess that the sudden turn of affairs confused me. I had yet to learn the real blessings of “free speech,” as we understand it in the United States.

The main streets of Manila are but few in number. There are two devoted largely to business, and three or four that have some handsome residences and public buildings upon them....

It was Dan who spoke, as the _Cardigan_ steamed up to her wharf at the Chinese-English port for which she had been bound. The voyage had proved without incident, and we stepped...

That was but the single word I uttered as the sharp blade dangled before my eyes and burnt itself on my brain. I felt that I was about to die--that an unknown Chinese assassin w...

That night I slept but little. Strange as it may seem, I could not get Commodore Dewey’s face out of my mind. I thought of him continually, with his trim naval uniform and well-...

There was no room for us at the guns, so both Dan and I were placed, for convenience’ sake, among the sailors. But on such a steam vessel as the _Boston_ there is little or noth...

The clouds were as long as they were heavy, and it took them all of twenty minutes to drift over the face of the moon and let that orb shine out again. How impatiently officers...

In this tale of adventures in and around the Island of Luzon it is not my intention to play the part of a historian and go into all of the details of the battle of Manila Bay, o...

“I don’t know much about this part of the country,” said Dan, as we drew away from the American camp with great caution. “I wish we could pick up a native guide. He might save u...

“Ha! private citizens! Bah! You _Americanos_ are all out for a fight, like a wild bull! But we will show you, here in Luzon and at Cuba, too! When it is over the pigs will be so...

“Sure an’ Oi’ll go wid youse b’ys,” answered the son of Erin, with a grin. “Oi’m afther makin’ a soldier of forchune av meself,” and he made a mocking bow at which both Dan and...

“Th’ haythins!” muttered Matt Gory. “Just let me be afther gittin’ a-hould of thim! Oi’ll spile their looks so their own mothers won’t know thim!” and he shook his club determin...

By pure good luck my aim was true, and the seat of the chair struck the Spaniard’s hand such a smart blow that he gave a howl of pain, dropped stick and dagger, and fell back ou...

During the time which passed Dan and I attended to both Longley and Matt Gory’s wounds, and also did what we could for the two Spaniards. The dead man was placed in the cellar.

It was Dan who spoke, and he addressed me, while both of us and Matt Gory took it easy in front of a deserted house we had chanced upon on a side road some miles away from Manila.

We were compelled to pass the night in the trees, the Tagals encamping less than a hundred feet away, and the night proving so light that escape was out of the question.

There is no doubt but that Captain Kenny was taken completely by surprise. As a matter of fact he had expected to find nobody on board or near the _Dart_, knowing that all of th...

For fully five minutes the situation remained unchanged, and during that time we took the opportunity to reload the empty weapons and bring out several others that had been hidd...

“We can fly that flag of distress now,” I continued, and ran back for the article. Soon I was on my way to the top, where I placed the glorious Stars and Stripes with the Stars...