Item - The Last Joke. A Thrilling Sea Sketch

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Online Full Text:	Stanford Digital Repository
Series:	New York Weekly — v. 20 no. 25 — page 7
Subject / Tag:	Sketch
Part of:	New York Weekly, v. XX, no. 25, May 11, 1865 (Issue)
Author:	Starbuck, Roger, 1837- (pseudonym used by Comstock, Augustus, 1837-)
Date:	May 11, 1865
First Sentence:	On the morning of the 25th day of June, 1861m the ship Commonwealth, of -, was rolling along under close-reefed topsails, a few leagues to windward of the coast of Patagonia;