And then we've got to remember, Dick, that there was never a navy like ours.

It goes everywhere and it does everything.

Why, if Admiral Farragut should tell one of those gunboats to steam across the Mississippi bottoms it would turn its saucy nose, steer right out of the water into the mud, and blow up with all hands aboard before it quit trying." "You two fellows talk too much," said Pennington.

"You won't let President Lincoln and Grant and Halleck manage the war, but you want to run it yourselves." "I don't want to run anything just now, Frank," rejoined Dick.

"What I'm thinking about most is rest and something to eat.