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as the day of the launch. The neighborhood poured out—old ship captains came from far and near,—the school-marm and her flock of boys and girls. It was a sight—grand, impressive, to look at the great ship that had been building so many months, now awaiting, in her dress of black and green, the incoming tide, when, the last block knocked from under, she would slide into the Mystic. I remember while awaiting the high tide at a launch at Foster's yard that the Great American Traveller, Daniel Pratt, located himself, with the aid of the boys, on a post at the river-end of the yard and began one of his rhapsodies on that famous ship-canal from Medford to Chelsea, wherein great vessels should float to the sea,—that about in the middle of his remarks the launch took place and the water displaced rushed inward over the yard, leaving Daniel on the post surrounded, his audience being fleeter of foot having escaped inland. The flood soon subsided, and folding up his manuscript, which he a