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"I don't blame him," replied the one so addressed. "But he's all the more sure of winning over the Army this year." "I don't believe either of you youngsters know Darrin as well as I do," broke in a second classman.
Within a second after that eye-closer landed Darrin struck with his right, landing on the jaw bone under Treadwell's ear. Down in a heap sank the top classman. He was unconscious before his body struck the ground. Wheeler counted off the seconds. " ten!" Still Mr. Treadwell lay motionless. "Do your best for him, gentlemen," begged Referee Edgerton, turning to the first classman's seconds. "Mr.
It was not long ere a yearling sentry, with bayonet fixed and gun resting over his right shoulder, came pacing toward the first classman. Recognizing a cadet officer, the yearling sentry halted, holding his piece at "present arms." "Walk your post," Dick directed, after having returned the salute.
As the first classman read through the proposition that was torturing them he threw an emphasis upon certain words that opened their eyes better as to the meaning. "Now, it works out this way," continued the first classman, bending over the disk and drawing paper and pencil toward him. "In the first place." Freeman seemed to these youngsters like a born demonstrator.
Within five minutes he had made the "sticky fly paper" problem so plain to them all that they glanced from one to another in astonishment. "Why, it does seem easy," confessed Farley. "It sounds foolish, now," grinned Darrin. "I'm beginning to feel ashamed of myself." "Mr. "Then I'll drop in once in a while again," promised the first classman.
Do you care to shake hands?" "Help me to my feet," urged the first classman, who was sitting up. His seconds complied. Then Midshipman Treadwell held out his hand. "Here's my hand," he said rather thickly. "And I apologize, too, Mr. Darrin." "Then say no more about it, please," begged Dave, as their hands met in a strong clasp.
Beyond the lecture by the commandant of midshipmen, each of the trio was further punished by the imposition of ten demerits. In Frenching and in taking justice into his own hands Midshipman Totten was held to have erred. However, the nature of his grievance and the fact that he was only a new fourth classman were taken into consideration.
His fine presence, his gentle, courteous manners and kindly smile put them at once at ease with him. Among the cadets at this time were my eldest brother, Custis, who graduated first in his class in 1854, and my father's nephew, Fitz Lee, a third classman, besides other relatives and friends.
"Where?" inquired Dick innocently. "In the Hudson? I decline, sir, to obey an illegal order." Amid a good deal of laughter the returning cadets trudged across the road, over the railroad tracks and on up the steep slope that led to the administration building. Across the inner court of the administration building walked the second classman briskly, and on up the stairs. There was no more laughter.
I won't fight you, but I'll chastise you, and you can protect yourself if you know how." He made a bound forward, intent on hitting Darrin, who stood his ground unflinchingly. But Thompson seized the third classman by the shoulder and shoved him back. "Now, stop this, Ripley, and you freshmen, cut it out, too," warned the athletic first classman. "This is descending to a low level.