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Of course everybody was wishing for a frost, that they might have skating. "Oh, how delightful it will be!" exclaimed the midshipman. "I have not put on a pair of skates for the last five years. I have seen ice enough and to spare in the shape of icebergs, and floes, and fields of ice, but that is not the sort of ice suitable for skating.
"I should be very happy, aunt; but Brighton is almost by Beachey Head; and if I could get so far, I could not expect to be welcome in such a smart place as that poor scrubby midshipman as I am." Mrs.
Bob took it, and Tom Long closed up, being as much interested as the midshipman. "I say, Tom Long," the latter said, with a laugh, "which of us two will get the first taste of that brown insect's sting?" "You, Bob," said Tom Long, coolly. "It would let out a little of your confounded impudence."
"What on earth made you bring him to me?" "Because I thought you needed each other." "Well, perhaps we did," laughed Midshipman Darrin. "At any rate I've been hammering at Farl all the time that he wasn't hammering at me. I certainly feel better, and I hope that he does." "You both needed the same thing," declared Dan, grinning even more broadly as he picked up his hair brushes.
Let 'em sell the stock and take him down, said the old man, pointing feebly to the wooden Midshipman, 'and let us both be broken up together. 'And what d'ye mean to do with Wal'r?'said the Captain. 'There, there! Sit ye down, Gills, sit ye down, and let me think o' this. If I warn't a man on a small annuity, that was large enough till to-day, I hadn't need to think of it.
Again, on the 16th, the naval brigade guns were engaged in the attack on Secundra Bagh, when Lieutenant Salmon, RN, was severely wounded, and Martin Abbot Daniel, midshipman, was killed by a round shot in the head. In writing to his father, Captain Peel says: "It was in front of the Shah Najeef, and in command of an eight-inch howitzer, that your noble son was killed.
In this dashing little brig, I Ralph Chester held the exalted and responsible post of midshipman; my appointment, on the morning in question, being exactly one week old. I had only joined the ship, however, three days before, and in the interval had been made the victim of almost every practical joke which the ingenuity of my fellow-mids could devise.
He was not aware that even a first lieutenant could not obtain a berth for a midshipman. "Very sorry to lose you, Hanson," said Lieutenant Pack; "you, I daresay will be glad to get afloat again, as there is a better chance of promotion than you would have on shore. We never know what may turn up.
Ferris looked at Quimby's seconds. They shook their head. "I award the fight to Mister Dalzell," declared Midshipman Ferris. "Oh, give it to Mr. Quimby, if you don't mind, sir," begged Dan. "He got the game, and might as well have the name along with it." "Mister, don't be touge all the time," cried Mr. Ferris sharply. "I don't mean to be, sir," replied Dan quite meekly.
Next to Commander Cook in authority in the Endeavour were her two lieutenants Zachary Hicks and John Gore; her senior mate was Charles Clerke, who accompanied Cook in each of his subsequent voyages, and succeeded to the command of the third expedition on the death of his beloved captain. He had previously served as midshipman under Lord Byron in his first voyage round the world.
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