Tom Slade with the Colors
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Tom Slade with the Colors
                                            
                            By Percy Keese Fitzhugh
                            
                                29 Oct, 2020                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Brief Extract: Six feet water in the hold, sir! That would not have been a pleasant announcement to the captain of the 'Aurora' at any time, but its unpleasantness was vastly increased by the fact that it greeted him near the termination of what had 
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                                                Brief Extract: Six feet water in the hold, sir! That would not have been a pleasant announcement to the captain of the 'Aurora' at any time, but its unpleasantness was vastly increased by the fact that it greeted him near the termination of what had been, up to that point of time, an exceedingly prosperous voyage. Are you sure, Davis? asked the captain; try again. He gave the order under the influence of that feeling which is styled hoping against hope, and himself accompanied the ship's carpenter to see it obeyed. Six feet two inches was the result of this investigation. The vessel, a large English brig, had sprung a leak and was rolling heavily in a somewhat rough sea off the east coast of Africa. Less