You played them a rare trick, and might have got off, if it hadn't been for that lucky shot of ours.
"I see you were just getting out a stern chaser," and he pointed to the gun.

"It is well for you that you didn't fire it, as you can't be charged with armed resistance." "I wish I had fired it, for all that.

It might have been my luck to cripple you." "It would have made no difference if you had," the officer replied.
"The frigate would have overhauled you.

With this wind she would sail five feet to your four." The boat from the frigate now came alongside.
"How are you, Cotterel ?" the officer said, as he stepped on board.
"That was a lucky shot of yours; but I think it's lucky for the lugger that you hit her, for the captain was so savage, at that trick they played him, that I believe he would have sunk her when he came up to her again.

I heard him say to the first lieutenant, 'I won't give her a chance to play me such a trick again.'" "What orders have you brought ?" the other asked.
"We are outward bound, so you are to put a crew on board and take her into port; but, as we are very short of hands, we will relieve you of the prisoners." All on board the lugger were at once ordered into the frigate's boat, and were rowed off to the ship.