The Admiral paid no attention to the big rock and the alleged torpedoes, but steamed up the bay near the city where the Spaniards were sleeping.

He was hunting the fleet he was ordered to remove, and found it very early in the morning.

Still the thunder of his guns seems to thrill and electrify the air over the bay, and shake the city; and the echoes to ring around the world, there is no question--not so much because the Americans won a naval victory without a parallel, as that Dewey improved the occasion, showing that he put brains into his business.

They say--that is, some people seem to want to say it and so do--that Dewey is a strange sort of man; as was said of Wolfe and Nelson, who died when they won immortality.

Dewey lives and is covered with glory.