sed himself, having already dined.

"Then I know what you will eat--a Neapolitan ice."

The door opened, and the Governor entered, looking as though he was
nearly roasted; and in a moment Mr. Barrington had explained to him how
Dave had tried to have him released.

"I'm many times obliged to you, David," said the Governor, shaking
Dave's hand, and making him feel very proud.

The Governor was too near broiled himself to feel like eating lunch, but
the ices appearing, he helped Mr. Barrington and Dave to eat them.

When the ices were eaten, the Governor wished to give Dave the five
dollars, as promised, but he was very, very sure he ought not to take
it. In a few days, however, there came to Captain Burt's house a package
of books, marked "Master David Burt," and within was a note with the
compliments of the Governor.

[Begun in HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE No. 37, July 13.]

THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN NAVY.

BY BENSON J. LOSSING.

CHAPTER X.

The navy, especially the portion composed of the gun-boat and
mortar-boat squadrons, performed most arduous and valuable services in
connection with the armies on the inland waters of the great basin of
the Mississippi. Soon after the capture of New Orleans, Farragut, with
Porter's mortar-boats, and transports with troops, ascended the
Mississippi to Vicksburg, and after that national vessels continued to
patrol the waters of the great river.

[Illustration: SINKING OF THE "ALABAMA" BY THE "KEARSARGE."]

At that time cruisers built in British ports for the use of the
Confederates in preying upon American commerce were active on the seas.
The most conspicuous of these was the _Alabama_, which for eighteen
months illuminated the ocean with burning American vessels which her
commander (Semmes) had plundered and set on fire. In the summer of 1864
the _Kearsarge_ (Captain Winslow) fought her, off the coast of France,
and sent her to the bottom of the sea. Our government held the British
responsible for her outrages, and by the decision of an international
commission they were compelled to pay the Americans $15,500,000 in gold
for damages.

National gun and mortar boats carried on a wonderful amphibious warfare
among the bayous and in the tributaries of the Mississippi in 1863. In
their exploits Commodore D. D. Porter was most conspicuous. The
blockading squadron were very vigilant--so vigilant and active that
during the war they captured or destroyed British blockade-run