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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: and the lieutenant himself were the only others upon deck.
Everywhere there were smears and sprinkles of blood. "Where's
Brookes?" the lieutenant called out.
"He's hurt in the arm, sir, and he's gone below," said the
boatswain.
Thereupon the lieutenant himself walked over to the forecastle
hatch, and, hailing the gunner, ordered him to get up another
ladder, so that the men could be run up on deck if the pirates
should undertake to come aboard. At that moment the boatswain at
the wheel called out that the villains were going to shoot again,
and the lieutenant, turning, saw the gunner aboard of the pirate
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