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level keel, but the motor commenced working
with its customary intensity and the whole fusilage
ocr>   quivered as usual when they were under ??linedeleted
fix>   quivered as usual when they were under
way.

All this had consumed mere fragments of a
minute and Perk had already drawn back his
hand to make ready for his first toss. It was his
intention to follow this up with a second bomb,
hurled in double-quick order, for a dual fire
would make the results more complete.

Jack left it completely to his comrade to decide
just when to let fly, relying on the lessons
Perk had taken along those lines in order to
make himself as near perfect as possible. If it so
chanced that their initial attack turned out to be
futile, it was always possible for the fighting airship
to swing around so as to permit a second
attempt.

Much would depend on just how those who
were struggling like mad wolves on the deck of
ocr>   the schooner to gain or retain,@possession of the
fix>   the schooner to gain or retain possession of the
spoils took the attack from the air. Jack rather
fancied they would be panic stricken at having
a grim spectre of the skies descend on them like
a plunging eagle and before they could possibly
recover sufficient energy to strike back, the monster
roc must have winged past, and the pungent
gas started to affect their eyes, rendering them
frantic with a threatened temporary blindness.

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