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and generally succeeds, by his rapid and pertinent questions, in putting people into such utter confusion of ideas that negatives and affirmatives are bundled out indiscriminately, if indeed the mouth can be induced to open itself at all, or to frame any speech. However, in one department, at least, he got as good as he gave. Whilst visiting the magazine he suddenly gave the order,
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The gunner's mate in charge of the magazine, whom we will call
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Topper, immediately closed the hatch and stood on guard over it. Turning around, the admiral said
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I want to go into the magazine; but observing that
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Topper still stood motionless, he again repeated the order.
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You can't, sir, was the rejoinder,
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Oh! very well, replied the admiral,