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Three cheers for US.! given with a will. Stands firm will giving him 10 inches pounds each shot.
Third Shot blow out Cap tube - not discovered till loaded & attempting to fire her. Many [[insertion]] unsuccessful [[/insertion]] attempts to get her off. Smith very persevering Charley Keeney [[strikethrough]] h [[/strikethrough]] assisting him.
At breakfast [[insertion]] of 24 men [[/insertion]] in grand, pleasing jokes 
  I entered in the Cabin - I Asked Smith how they got G.S. off. Busily engaged in [[strikethrough]] his [[/strikethrough]] stowing away 'the indispensable' in his abdominal pantry, with earnestness he replied - '[[underlined]] 'Why Sir, Stevvy sawed it off [[/underlined]].' Every one perceived the excellent [[underlined]] wit [[/underlined]] in the answer tho' not intended in  that light which we took it.
Stevvy had really taken the ruptured gun & sawed off [[strikethrough]] by a? [[/strikethrough]] the fragments from the breach [[insertion]] with a steel saw [[/insertion]]. Smith's [[strikethrough]] h[[/strikethrough]] answer was to what he understood to be the [[strikethrough]] answer [[/strikethrough]] question: How the fragments were taken off from the breach - when in
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truth I [[insertion]] intended to be understood: [[/insertion]] [[strikethrough]] meant [[/strikethrough]] 'How did you [[underlined]] fire off [[/underlined]] the charge at which you, Smith, & Charley were so long at [[work]]?
  "Stevvy sawed it off"! was the foundation of many a side-splitting laugh to [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] our numerous company during the day.
How many a sportsman has been put to their wits end; How to [[insertion]] get [[/insertion]] [[strikethrough]] fire [[/strikethrough]] off [[strikethrough]] their [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] his [[/insertion]] fractious gun. Many a time have I been engaged in firing off guns; both of large & small Caliber, when from some inexplainable cause the charge would now & then refuse to ignite. But a remedy for this species of annoyance has now been discovered, within [[insertion]] 4 hours sail of [[/insertion]] the Arctic Circle! Stevvy & Smith are [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] deserving to [[insertion]] be [[/insertion]] honored & remembered by every son if for the [[insertion]] discovery of this [[/insertion]] sure remedy of a [[strikethrough]] loaded [[/strikethrough]] gun that cannot be [[underlined]] got off [[/underlined]] any other way - SAW it off!'