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JOHN PAUL JONES
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CHAPTER II
LAND HO!
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The crew of the good bark “Friendship” were an exceedingly jolly company of men, who drank their grog and spun their yarns in the cabin at night, and called “ship ahoy” and “heave ho” and any number of other incomprehensible things which the young apprentice could never understand. But the graceful ship seemed to obey her masters very well indeed for all the queer things they said about her, for she reared and lurched but still went gaily on her way, riding over the rolling
