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It was bright and sunny and calm as we glided into the bay of Gibraltar. And I stood on the quarter deck with my telescope trained toward Delger theatres from Melbourne and R. It was a strange situation that major naval bases of Spain and England should be no more than six miles apart. There was well to keep close watch on amateur theatres for at any moment that a squadron of Spaniards might push out suddenly and punch all his. But we reached Gibraltar without incidents and Captain Perlil left the ship to pay his respect to the port admiral. And he returned, he sent for me in his cabin. As I went below, I wondered nervously what crimes I had committed. Come in. Acting Lieutenant Hornblore, Mr. Hornblore, acting Lieutenant A. Do you

like that, Tutton? Svish and the Wilson? Better than Mitship and A. Oh, yes. Still, not so good as Lieutenant A. Yes? Well, Mr. Hornblore, and you ought to consider this good news. There will be an examination for Lieutenant tomorrow, Captain's ball. What do you think of that, A? Well, I'm certainly interested there. Of course you are. The examination will be held about the old prison house over there in Santa Barbara. You are ready to take it? I hope Mr. Hornblore, well, I am. Yes, let's see. You will help my order as acting Lieutenant for two months now. Is that right? I think so. If you pass this examination, rise on the day after tomorrow, you will be a full lieutenant with no nonsense about it. And you'll have two months in the yard today. Well, it's sung wonderful, but what? Nothing, sir. I was just thinking what would happen if I should fail. You would revolve out to Mitship and naturally, and you'd lose about

eight months of seniority, because it was six months at least before you could try again. Yes, I know that. Well, well, you say you do feel ready for this examination? Well, I am. Oh, yes. Better of it. The reports of the Santa Barbara are three pm to model with your certificates and journals. Hi, I say. Tell Mr. Boedron you have my permission to go. You may use one of the ship's boats. Thank you, sir. That's all. Oh, and by the way, yes, sir. Good luck, Hornblore. I wish that I could be as confident of the examination as I pretended. The truth was, I hadn't expected it to come so soon. Well, there was nothing for it then, but to get out, not is, epitome of navigation and clock, complete handbook of human ship and try in the next turn to four hours to be up on everything in those two heck volumes. There were other things to be attended to besides. And my friend, Mitshipman Jack Brace, never let me forget them.

Shoes. Oh, it was. Was that Brace? I said, shoes. Oh, no, friggin' armature is difficult enough without your going cryptic on me, Brace McBoy. What do you mean? You have to weigh a bottle of shoes, remember? Oh, who happens? That's true. Oh, chuck him to me, Laddie. I'll get to the gun room and get him polished. Sorry, took my shoes and I went back to my navigation. But a long time before Brace came back. Yeah, take this. Hmm. What? What's that? My clean shirt. You don't have to clean one. Oh, thanks for the much room. Not at all. What about my shoes? Oh, well done, why are you? Okay, nice to meet you. Haven't you got them polished yet? The gun room's a black shoe black and you're trying to a chip. Oh, no. That's all right. I had to go to the men's work itself with Lad. Oh, well done. Unfortunately, the resultant compounds stubbornly refuse to take the polish. Oh, then he got what am I to do, man? I have two men not work with the gun room's molding shoe brush. When they're through without they'll use a soft cloth. And don't worry, we'll bring your shoes up to a condition of brightness where they have an examination blip tinted. Hmm.

I was by no means satisfied with what I knew of navigation, but I did have to close that book and start on the handbook of seamanship. Oh, I felt so abysmalign. Jack places interruptions at least except the purpose of taking my mind off my desperate lack of knowledge. Bridges. Oh, what are you talking about this time, Bridges? Hey, give me the Bridges, dear number one uniform. Oh, I love him pret-boy. Oh, yes, thank you, sir. I don't mention it, Lady Buck. The words in the complete handbook of seamanship began after a while to dance before my eyes. It seemed completely meaningless to my befuddled brain. Because is it from a great distance? A few times later I again heard the voice of midship and braze. Lick up. Hmm. What's that? What's that? What's that? I said lick her. Your spirit rations from the British Navy. Give it to me quickly.

You haven't drunk it, have you? No. I'll then drop it out, look sharp. Why? So that the government attendant will be able to press your breaches. What is he going to press on with a tin cup half full of rum? Of course, not the lickers for the water and coat. Oh, why should he have my rum? Because if the government attendant is to press your breaches, he has to heat a flat iron and a galley. We'll cook when the line to do that without some payment and then... Oh, I told you right. There's today's spirit ration over there. I was keeping it through later. If you want to be a lieutenant, you have to make sacrifices, won't you? Went on like that through the afternoon. Most of the night and all of the next morning. By the end of that time, I was turning rather fancically from Norris' text to Cox and back again to Norris' navigation. The only question in my mind was, which one baffled the wall? Finally, the boat was ready to cannon me into the Santa Barbara. I'd made myself a sprint with my sword and white breaches and buckled shoes.

My bundle of journals under my arm. My certificates of sobriety and good conduct in my pocket. Grace had only one last word of advice. Your hat. I couldn't get the dent out of it. What? I'll take it off as soon as you can and keep it under your arm. Maybe they won't see you come off the ship side. When I got aboard the Santa Barbara, I was directed off to a portside cabin. And when I entered that cabin, my heart sank down to those buckled shoes. For there was a whole cabin full of other midshipmen. All of them dressed like myself, all of them ready to take that examination. One of them spoke to me. Welcome to the black hole of Calcutta. Oh, for the love of... How many of them here? Anyhow. You're the fourth year. First year? How many of them they passed, do you think? Five, sir. I doubt it. You know who's examining us, right? Dread not fussed up a while. He said, tailed, twisted, ribbed, or the one's one. And Captain Harvey of the Dockyard, I don't know him. You wouldn't want him.

Who's the third? I don't like to tell you. I don't like to have you tell me then. But you might as well come on. Black, Charlie, Hammer. Oh, oh, oh. Oh, he's almost as better straight on fosters, isn't he? Yes. He's powered through here, looking as if he'd lost a guinea and bound six pounds, huh? Well, we may as well sit here and wait out there, but not as good as it will do us. We waited. The first man came back from his agglonination. But he had failed. And informed us that they began by asking him to define a rumbline. 39 midshipmen had their text proofs open on the incident. We read about rumblines. Candidates departed and candidates returned. Most gloomy. Some smiling. The afternoon wore on. Twilight came. Night came. Finally, my new friend left.

And ten minutes later, he was back. He had failed. It was my turn, huh? I striked my neck off and saw through it that my sword hung correct there by the side. In an agony of nervousness, I went into the examining room to stand before the three grim faces across the table. Well, sir, report yourself. We have no time to waste. Huh? Honda, sir. Horatio Honda. Midshipman, I mean, acting with them. And the agent is intifactical, sir. Your specific experience? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. There in order. You're on the first hall on the port, with the Honda beating up the channel, with a noticely wind blowing hard, with overbearing north two miles. Is that clear? Yes. Yes, sir. Now the wind veers four points and takes you flat back. What do you do, sir? What do you do? No. No, run lines. You want that?

Nothing. What do you do? Quickly. Well, um, I, I by no use is mastered. It is mastered with a double-triff, under your measure. Your interior problem is the, um, whole learn. Well, sir, I think that, um, it's difficult for a point, sir, because if it wasn't, that's confiled. There. Cannon. For arm, let's get back to our ships. Alush!!! Unseateromunically, they rush start of the cabin. Sweeping aside the centri of the dawn, I fall in, and, with the free captain's eye arrived in the waste, just in time to see the rocket, so up into the night sky, raised in the car with a big star. Oh, wait! He's such aiyet showing up! Fire ships, of the little left, go my King! You don't expect to find a king now, do you, Hammond? All our ships in the harbour beat the quarters.

Of course, half a mile of dark water, a yellow life girl. Ships wrapped in fray. A line of fire ships was running before the wind, straight into our crowded anchorage. Let one of those blazing houses make contact with one of our vessels, and instant air of fire will be transmitted to the dry painted timber to the tarred cottage of the inframible sails. To manly and highly combustible ships filled with explosives, fire is the deadliest and most dreaded peril of the sea. Unless it was the peril, we won't face it now. Use over there! Use over! Come alongside! Come along by the banjo. Come along by the banjo. Since it's everybody to give them a call. Where's the way to bring you Captain Foster? He's coming. Here are gentlemen. We'll do this flutter bandweather takers. We'll do this flutter bandweather takers. We'll do this flutter bandweather. We'll do this flutter bandweather. We'll do this flutter bandweather. We'll do this flutter bandweather.

The three captains ran to the missing chains and flung themselves down into the boat. I was right at their heels. It was my bound and duty to get back to my ship. I was as soon as possible. But then I knew there was no chance of a junior officer finding a boat to take him back. Perhaps after the captains reached their ships, if they reached them, I could do the same. Perhaps I threw myself in as they pushed off, nearly knocking the breath out of Captain Harvey. Go! Go! I'm so very sorry. I didn't mean to knock into you, sir. Where are you going? Well, I should go to the end of the fascist world, sir. After you're all converting your ships, of course. Hmm. Where all's been? Road, can't you? This is no time to sit there giving food away. Where, too? I'm not in a navy. I'm a British civilian. Full for my ship. But with no. No, no. Look here, Captain Potter. I'm the senior. Full for the Calypsoe. And if one separate boat's mirror, I'm seeing the woman.

Please, please. We must get started. Calypsoe, it is. But full, old man. Full, I have the pillar. The day when, earlier, I had faced the captain's board for my examination for lieutenant, ended with me in a boat in Gibraltar Harper in the middle of a dangerous action. On my companions, were her electendorsmen and for three captains of the captain's board, their tempers have not markedly improved. Pull, oh, pull! My ship's ending. I suppose you don't think that mine is too foster. What says? Look, it's one of the far ships now, sir. Where? But just after the sir, over there. She's three-year-old. She's across Santa Barbara's cable. She's been your rammed at Santa Barbara.

The old Santa Barbara has two thousand prisoners, batten down below the deck, hasn't she? That's possible to be alongside her any minute, sir. With a man at the wheel of a fire ship, she could be a steered gear, then. What don't you think, sir? We ought to do it. Put the teleover captain Harbin. Over it is, my pull. Your war's button. He said pull. I don't want you to watch that you see. If I pull alongside that fire ship, we'll all go up in smoke. Your sword, Alan. Here. How you war'smen. You'll see this sword, my pull. Pull. Pull. Pull. Yes, sir. Yes. Fire us under our counter. I won't jump for it. Let me go, Captain Foster. I'll handle it. And with me, if you like, won't go. Because it's mainly two of us. Our boat swung under the still of the fire ship. She was before the wind began now, and just gathering away. Just hitting down upon the Santa Barbara. I stood up on the fort and jumped. My hands got something, and with a kick and a struggle,

I dragged myself up onto the empty deck. Captain Foster followed her. With a brick before the wind, the flames were blown forward. By dark, where we were, the heat was terrifying. I ran forward to the wheel. It was last with a loop of line, and as I cast this off and seized the spokes, I could fuel a lather below me, bite into the water. We're going to collide with the Santa Barbara! Hard over! Hard over it, you say. Leo will flames coming this way. That's blown onto the wheel. I got this one. Hard over the heat! But, she's telling us, deeper over, we might still grab her. We're going to blast the Santa Barbara, so we're going to blast her. We did it, sir! We did it! Power on underneath! What's going on?

Oh, that horse! Oh, stop it, a boy! Stop it, a boy. It's just a... The lather ground on the shoulder, then you full go. All right. Here's the compass on the portfolio. Keep that clear. But... Please, all right. Oh, sir! Sir, for example, what did you find? What did you do? Telling ropes must have burned away. You skinny, I can't steer us. All right, to the tapwheel. The water closed over me, and I felt panic, because I struggled back to the surface. It was cold. I could see nothing in the darkness with my eyes still dazzled by the roaring flames. Somebody splashed beside me. Oh, oh, no! I see.

They were... They were falling in the boat. They have to take us off. I hope they... I hope they get to us. Can you swim? No, not very well, sir. I trust them. They are either... Oh, holy... Oh, holy... God... Helm... Holy... Oh, holy... So, see them, sir? Oh, holy... Oh, holy... They'll back with a splutter. Almost choking with water. They will both go in week and a. I wonder if he felt the same despair that I felt, and I, I suppose he did for even captains of much seniority or in the mortal men after all. I long risque cypher thy sight in the water

until he spoke to me again, I. I don't know. Oh, oh, oh. What a home, brother. What are you doing? The boat. What's the best? Oh, column. I can't help. Oh! Rose! Oh! They're hitting the roads. They're coming. They're coming. The security's hanging on to the sides. Go ahead, sir. Drop on you. They're up there. Leave the house. Let's see the city. Stop. Now roll out my own friend.

I filled hands on my arms and the water fell away from me like a weight. They lifted me and dragged me over the surf. I fell face down within the bottom of the boat. Godspeed for breath. Access to affordable credit helps me pay my employees. But I don't really need it. Inflation is killing me. Who cares? Big retailers and make it record profits. That's why we support the German Marshall Credit Card Bill. See? Banks and credit unions help small businesses make payroll. Miss Bill would cut the vital resources they need. Well, I'm increasing Megastore profits. They deserve it. Don't they? Tell Congress. Stop the German Marshall Money Grab for corporate megastores. Paid for it by the Electronic Payments Coalition. Access to affordable credit helps me pay my employees. But I don't really need it. Inflation is killing me. Who cares? Big retailers and make it record profits. That's why we support the German Marshall Credit Card Bill. See? Banks and credit unions help small businesses make payroll.

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A tambian aderante con el caramel! Captain Foster. I heard it all in Spanish. It must be the crew that steered the varnish at the moment. Then escaped, eh? Captain Foster said we'll let prisoners fervor in indeed. We'll see about that. Come on over! Sir! Get in the CIA! Yes, sir! Sir! Oh! Not my arm! I'm an engineer! Sir, are you still here? Sir, I'm here. Sir, the sealant. All right, then. All right. We're up, prisoners. Get in the CIA, sir. You're up. Adelante con el caramel! Hold on. Hold on. How are we heading? Ah, a north, I think, sir.

Yes, north. Maybe we are going to land on the neutral ground and make the Spanish borders. Hmm. That's the best chance. That's a dark knife. There are two other ships burning themselves out there over there, sir. There were three fire ships came in in awe, I think. Oh, that was my cancer, three. Well, that means that none of them did any damage. Good. But a bold endeavor. Who else would have committed the domes with making such an attempt? Well, they've land about fire ships from us, perhaps. We may have nursed the pinion that impels the steel, eh? Well, is this possible, sir? Well, as though it is. Well, let's lean back over. If we're to be prisoners, let's at least try to make ourselves comfortable. Captain Voster was a cool enough customer, quoting poetry and discussing the naval situation while being carried off into captivity.

I tried to emulate him, leaning back, unconcertaining against the sight of the boatman. I would not have wanted Jettnort Foster to realize that I was shivering from something up up in the field. I wondered what hardships a prisoner of the Spaniards might have to undergo. And suddenly there was a voice, an English voice, from across the water. Oh, the holly! There's a lamburzer. Or a British guardboat. About time. Oh, the holly! No, I didn't guard on. Continue, now, now. Continue, now, now. Hey! Holly! Holly! Hammond! Holly! Holly! Put them in. Tell Jettnort Foster. We'll tell you. We'll tell you. Yeah, we'd best be quiet on glass. Feel finishes if we're not. Oh, the holly! Lailose, for our fall, do you. Continue, now, to die. Stop roying, for our bang. Continue, now, in the area.

We'll tell you. We'll tell you. Oh, the holly! Oh, the holly! Let's take a look, let's go. Get out of the boat, I might make something. I'll tell you. I'll tell you, I'll tell you. Hey! Holly! ойти, now, now, now. Holly! Holly! Holly! Holly! Holly! Holly! No, no, no! I'll sue you! Ah! That's not it! No, sir, anything else. Parallel algebra. Wait, wait, wait. Sir, I'll end there. There's better. Sit down there in that boat. Stop the wall. Give me a hand, Captain Foster. Jump in here. Jump into you. Now you, Mr. Mitchel Bunn. Thank you, sir. Are you all right, you two? Why not? I'm all right, sir. Keep your gun straight on the back of Hammond. Get into that boat. Then I'll keep a gun. I'll make them follow. Go ahead, are they? All right. Pull away. I'll pull you in the fingers. Pull us.

Hey, don't you're safe, Foster. And you, too, of course, Mr. Hornblanc. No thanks to you. However, I might add to Captain Hammond. After your passion, here at the centre of Barbara, a puff of wind took one's own fast. We couldn't give up with your most interesting Captain Hammond. It called for Spaniard to save us from drumming. I thought I could rely on two brother captains. May I ask what glory implying so? I make no implications. Brothers may read implications. It was simple, safe, and perfect. I consider that an offensive remark. I congratulate you on your perspicacities, sir. Apparently, I shall have to send a friend to wait on you, sir. He will be welcome. I said amazed. Listening to the two British captains planning to duel with each other on top of everything that had happened, they didn't speak to each other again. And Foster came after and sat beside me. For some time, we drifted along in silence. And my thoughts went to my interrupted examination for Lieutenant.

I had a wild hope. I had, after all, it seemed to me that I had rather well at night. And Captain Foster was certainly in a position to know it. I had, as I say, a wild hope. Finally, Foster spoke to me. Homegirl. Hi, Arthur. I shall have much to do before morning. You, sir, Mr. Homegirl, will carry out my orders. Hi, Arthur. These prisoners. I want you to find someone who can speak their ringo and have it explained to them that I shall send them back to Cartagena under Cartel, free, without exchange. They say, do our lives, and that's the least we can do in return. I think that's very just. And you, my far-breathing friend, will have you, my thanks. Thank you, sir. You did well. Did I live beyond tomorrow? I shall see if the proper authorities are informed of your worthy action. Thank you, sir. And, sir. Well, my examination for Lieutenant said my certificate.

That particular examining board will never be a symbol of course. You must wait your opportunity to go before another one. But, sir, I... Well, I thought possibly. Well... But, sir, didn't you have all that's happened? Well, here, yourself, sir, said that I did all right tonight, sir. And, I mean, now, lucky here, Mr. Homegirl, the examination is a thing entirely separate from the events of this evening. Yes, sir. In the examination, best of my recollection, you were flattered back about to lose your spouse and will deliver trips under your leg. One more minute you would have failed. It was the Spanish attack that saved you, isn't that so? I... I suppose it is quite right, sir. Uh, then be thankful for small mercies. And, even more thankful for big ones, Mr. Homegirl. I ask... I... Well, I suppose you're right, sir. Of course, sir. Oh. Well, I suppose it... When I've acquired the viewpoint of a...

Well, a true, maybe, ma'am, more completely, but... Well, then, sir, I suppose I can fully realize when I look back at... Well, on the whole, I was... Well, a very fortunate midshipman tonight, sir. For ratio, hornblower, starting Michael Redgrave, is based on the novels by CS Forestor. Music composed and conducted by Sydney Torch, produced by Harry Allen Towers. Music composed by Harry Allen Towers, produced by Harry Allen Towers, produced by Harry Allen Towers.

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