The Boy Who Sailed With Blake

Preface

HE following story is not one of reckless adventure, nor one in which fighting and bloodshed are introdnced to fan a spurious spirit of heroism. It is the reproduction of a page of history, and a most important one, when good men held not their lives dear to uphold and defend that which was dearer than life — civil and religions liberty.

The example of Blake is held up to the boys of to-day, not because he fought and conquered, but because he was a conscientious, God-fearing man, and his conscience told him that the best interests of his country demanded resistance to the Stuart rule. Such a man as Blake was a hero everywhere, and needed not a quarter-deck to display his heroism.

Chapter X. Chapter XL

ONCE MORE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN . . . .138

CHAPTER XIT.

THE CAPTIVES RESCUED — BLAKE's EXPLOITS AND DEATH 150

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

"not while we have men to fight!" . . Frontispiece

"halloa, Toaxo masters, who are YOU ?" Facing page 38

ADMIRAL BLAKE'S SQUADRON , 86

" A COUNTLESS NUMBER OF SWARTHY FIGURES

CAME LEAPING DOWN ON OUR DECK." , . „ 118 c<

HALLOA, YOUNG MASTERS, WHO ARE YOU?" — Page 43.

" NOT WHILE WE HAVE MEN TO FIGHT !"

Frontispiece.

ADMIRAL BLAKE'S SQUADRON.

A COUNTLESS NUMBER OF SWARTHY FIGURES CAME LEAPING DOWN ON OUR DECK." — Page 1 10.