I hoped we might be able to capture the Teaser, but I did not expect it." "I suppose you expect to do it now." "Yes, I do; and I ought to be broken if I don't do it.

I am sorry to let all those men enter the rebel navy; and that is all that vexes me at the present moment." "Perhaps they can be picked up to-morrow, or later to-night," suggested Flint.

"From what I heard, I think she was to have a fighting crew of about forty men.

Of course they will try to join the steamer to-night or to-morrow; and why not let them do it ?" chuckled Flint.
"We will attend to this affair first, but I like the idea." They reached the Teaser in due time, and all hands went on board of her.
Captain Folkner, with a couple of men he had contrived to retain, with two firemen, was at work on his apparatus to float a vessel drawing ten feet in six feet of water or less.

Alongside he had a hundred or more of empty barrels which he was sinking under the sides by hauling them down with a line under the bottom of the vessel.