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  2. BRITISH PLUCK AND RESOURCEFULNESS.

    A lieutenant of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve was in command of a motor-launch attending a flotilla of minesweepers, when a drifting mine was sighted in a heavy sea. Attempts to sink it by gunfire failed, whereupon the plucky cffficer lowered a boat, and, lapwing as close as he dared, jumped overboard and swam to the mine with a line, which he passed through the ringbolt on the top, risking contact with the dangerous horns. The mine was ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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