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ADMIRAL LEE, when only a post captain, being on board his ship one very
rainy and stormy night, the officer of the watch came down to his cabin
and cried, Sir, the sheet-anchor is coming home.--Indeed, says the
captain, I think the sheet-anchor is perfectly in the right of it. I
don't know what would stay out such a stormy night as this.
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