When he found it, he stuffed it into the muzzle with shaking hands that seemed to be darting everywhere with the sheer force of terror, and fumbled for the ramrod.

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When Smidt was pulled into the boat, "His hands were shaking, " recalled 12-year-old Dan Higgins Jr.

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