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Poverty - by James Platt

so, for within a quarter of an hour. 'of the commencement the two first French ships were dismasted, and by half-past nine six ships of the enemy had struck their colours. Nelson received a wound, which was at first thought fatal; probably he thought so himself. A langridge shot stripped he skin from his forehead, which, falling over his remaining eye, put him in darkness. The blood flowing freely was alarming at first, but was soon found not to be serious ; then he insisted on taking his turn under the doctor's hands. On being dressed and bandaged up, an alarm of the French admiral's ship L'Orient being on fire. Nelson hearing it, slipped out of the cock-pit, and came on deck. I was, with several others, standing under the poop gazing at the grand but awful sight, when the admiral passed us going into his cabin. He stopped to say, "You see, my men, what it is to be in an undisciplined ship." He was a disciplinarian, and took this opportunity of showing its value. Soon after she blew up with an awful explosion, portions of her timber falling all around. It is said she had on board half a million of specie, -the plunder of