SALUTING A FLAG.

Dunstan Times, Issue 629, 8 May 1874, Page 2

SALUTING A FLAG.

/ — o —- Most people me too ready, savs . contemporary, 10 take offence • a few irovve . e, - , err in the oppose directionISot long since. writes a correspondent at It 10 Janeiro, an iee-ship from Loston on ered the 1 bay commanded by ap.American. Pert Santa Cm* not recognizing his house f] ito . l ui ii of | him and ordered him to “heave to" Lut the worthy skipp. r niei . olv -wounced lhe name of the vessel. so .. blank shot was fired to induce him to stop. But he_ called lor his revolver, and p .Hiring it skyward fired six successive shots. Then a solid shou from tne lort skipped across Ins bow and another better aimed, passed through his foresail. The fort and two shore batteries opened t-e upon him, and several of his Ibdit Sjiii-iwere cut away. But ),e held on Ins course r« juicing, loading and firing Ins revolver Fn.ally he reached quarantine, and, came to anchor just as Ins flying jibboom. went by the board _ II f; was thou so near the odier shipping that the forts dare (ire on him no longer, ami the police boat the Custom House boat, and the health boat all boarded him together with the captain of the port who with move vigor llian polheness, wanted to know why he did not heave to? ' Heave to 1” ejaculated the astonishcd skipper; “ was that what you wanted ? I thought you was salutin’ the A nun-lean flag !”