A soft odor of chicken scratch, mash, and manure always permeated the air when you approached. Attached to the chicken coop was a smokehouse that contained several smoked ham shoulders hanging from hooks.

He was ready to demonstrate it last month when his test pilot, Marshall S. (Maury) Boggs, who had made innumerable blind landings, crashed to death in broad daylight on a joyhop in California.

Though the rebels had utterly failed in their purposes, having accomplished nothing but the temporary disabling of two lightly armed vessels, and had retreated before the approach of the only formidable vessel there, they formally, and with a mendacity equalled only by some of their own efforts in that direction, proclaimed that they had driven out of sight, for a time, the entire hostile fleet, and that the blockade of the port of Charleston was raised.

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