Talk:The Eighteen-Twelver
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| Edition: | Extracted from Adventure magazine, October 1920, pp. 119—125. |
| Source: | https://archive.org/details/adventure-v-027-n-02-1920-10-18 |
| Contributor(s): | ragpicker |
| Notes: | Accompanying illustrations may be omitted |
| Proofreaders: | ragcleaner |
[From the Camp-Fire section of the magazine, p. 151.]
A WORD from Farnham Bishop concerning his story in this issue:
Berkley, California.
I hope you won't mind the heroine of this story. She's a ferry-boat!
Some of her type I know were used as gunboats in the Civil War, particularly in the early days of the blockade, when the Union needed hundreds of craft in a hurry. And about twenty years ago I read in a newspaper article that one of these embattled butter-tubs had captured a richly-laden British blockade-runner that approached and hailed her at sea, because no Englishman could imagine that anything that looked like that could possibly be a war-ship. Anybody that wants to bother the Navy Department about whether this really happened or not is at liberty to do so.—Farnham Bishop.