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Hornblower's First Command

Horatio Hornblower · April 3, 1953 · 19 min · 2,555 words

The transcript of “Hornblower's First Command”, an episode of Horatio Hornblower first broadcast April 3, 1953. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Horatio Hornblower plays Horatio Hornblower free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Call all hands, feet to quarters. I just have it better. One broad side in Florida to please, Captain Bush. Point of the target. Then stop, Freddy. I'll rise all right. Presenting Michael Redgrave as C.S. Barristers in Domino Manopathy for racial horn blower.

So of course, for somehow in following a French retreat from Greek, I had picked up one of those illnesses which scared armies on land.

and I had quite a part of it, in fact. Then my old friend Captain Bush had brought me home aboard the Nonsertch, home to small beach where the days passed quietly, serenely, wonderful days. But I began to want to see a little bush again.

So not long after New Year's day, we coaxed him down from London for a winter weekend with us. It was old times again. Well, it's important what you say. We're getting to the left at Angratzy.

You know, one night up in the Gulf of Riga, you seemed amused by a yarn of mine from my midship Monday's bush. I never told you did. I brought my first independent command of what it led to in the way of self knowledge.

You know, extremely young men or other sad to come and played aren't they as one grows older. That terrible resolve that everything must turn out right. That monstrous earnestness. Oh, oh, oh, oh. I hadn't been so long aboard the Inter-Faticable, and the Captain put a new.

I'd just come there as a Gucci midshipman, you know from the Justinian. And to have reached a fricut of the lion had me quite dazzled just then. We were on patrol in the Bay of Biscuit, and we'd fallen on conroyal French merchant ships most opportunely.

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