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"Aw, go blast your jets, you space-brained jerks!" snorted Winters. He turned back toward the hatch, but there was noticeably less swagger to his walk. The three cadets smiled at each other and followed him into the main body of the ship. While the Polaris was the command ship of the fleet, the nerve center of the entire operation, it was still hardly more than a prison ship for the cadets.
Arnott's Elements of Physics. Bonaparte frequently visited the school of infantry at St. Cyr, reviewed the cadets, and gave them cold collations in the park. But he had never visited the school of cavalry since its establishment, of which we were very jealous, and did all in our power to attract him.
When the battalion marched back from supper, and was dismissed, the young men turned to for their evening of leisure and pleasure. Over at Cullum Hall there was to be a hop for the evening. Not all cadets, however, attend hops at any time. Not long after supper many of the cadets began to dress carefully. "Going to the hop, old ramrod?" inquired Mr.
"I'll shingle you!" roared William Philander Tubbs, and rushed away to escape his tormentors. In the end he found another shoe, but it was not the one he wanted, for that had been rolled up in the blankets by Tom and was not returned until Putnam Hall was reached. Drums and fifes enlivened the way as the cadets started for the military academy.
"I wish it were possible to avoid having liquor, my son; but it is the custom of society and if we give a party it must be in the way it is done by other people." This did not satisfy the boy, who had been for some time associated with the Cadets of Temperance, and he answered, but with modesty and great respect of, manner, "If other people do wrong, mother what then?"
Learning, in Lynchburg, that Hunter's army was near Staunton, I continued with the cadets, riding one of their artillery horses, but was too much exhausted to proceed far, and stopped for the night on the way. Here I learned from refugees that Hunter was advancing toward Lexington. As the whole country seemed now to be overrun by the Federals, to avoid them was very difficult.
There he will explain the uses of the diving controls, the compressed air apparatus, and other details usually worked from the cabin." Down below came the cadets, in orderly fashion, without either haste or lagging. Having warmed up to his subject, Jack Benson lectured earnestly, even if not with fine skill. At last he paused.
Despite the heat and the hard work of the forenoon -these cadets had been up, as they we every day in summer, since five in the morning -spirits ran high at the midday meal, and chaffing talk and laughter ran from table to table. The meal over, the battalion marched back to camp. There were a few minutes yet before the afternoon drills. A few minutes of leisure?
There were many out-of-town visitors from every direction. We're going to three or four thousand people here to see the game," murmured Greg to Dick, in the undertone that cadets know so well how to use in ranks without being detected in conversing. "Think so?" inquired Prescott. "I'm sure of it."
Potter made fun of the cadets, and called them "white meat," and "little things that got in the way"; but when I asked a straight question he had to confess that he had been one himself only six years ago. "I was twenty-two when I graduated," he said. "One of the youngest men in my class." Which was the same as telling me that he is twenty-eight now. Ten years older than I am!
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