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"You put me on report for no other reason than that I had made you sing extracts from the 'Bazoo," charged the first class man. "That reason or thought never entered my head, sir." "I say it did!" "Then I am very sorry to have to reply that you are entirely in error." "You tell me that I am making a false statement?" demanded Midshipman Henley, more angrily.
The torn bits of the Gridley "Blade" were carefully disposed of, but Dave still shivered. Through a clipping agency, or in some other mysterious way, upper class men frequently get hold of the "Bazoo." Four days passed, and nothing happened out of the usual. On the evening of the fifth day, just after the release bell had rung, there was a brief knock at the door. Then that barrier flew open.
Brooks manifested a fondness for paragraph number one, to the air of "Yankee Doodle." Others dropped in on Dave, after release at 9.30, evenings, and called for other paragraph rendered in various ways. He was also overhauled, out of doors, in the brief recreation period after dinner, and made to do various stunts with the unfortunate paragraphs from the "Bazoo."
"Give it to 'em, Si," his comrades would Say, when he turned up his loud bazoo on the rations question. "They ought to get it ten times worse. When we come out we expected that some of us would get shot by the rebels, but we didn't calculate that we were going to be poisoned in camp by a lot of dirty, lazy potwrastlers."
"I guess I can take care of Wynn." "Well, here's hopin'. I'd like to crack out a winnin', this play. Sit tight, now, and listen to the meller trill o' my bazoo." The motor wizard remained at his post while Katz crept back to the after part of the boat. Then, suddenly, Katz opened up with a yell for "Hogan! Cap'n Hogan!" Hogan leaped to his feet, all energy and curiosity in a moment.
"Bully, say I, not meaning to be funny either," remarked Landy; "for I'd a heap sooner believe it was a bovine trying out his bazoo than a thunder-storm heading this way. It's bad enough to be in constant danger of getting ducked by falling overboard, without taking chances overhead in the bargain."
"Oh, he's in on the game." "Just another fake, I guess." In vain Hal strove to catch a clue from the confused voices. He had made a note of it for future inquiry, when some one called out: "Mac Ellis hasn't said anything yet." The others caught it up. "Speech from Mac!" "Don't let him out." "If you can't speak, sing a song." "Play a tune on the bazoo." "Hike him up there, somebody."
Several chaps volunteered to "pull me out o' that," but when they came close enough to see the muzzle of a revolver they fell back. At two o'clock in the morning they held a convention, and as the result one of them asked: "Stranger, can we buy you off?" "No, sir." "Is there any way on earth to stop that bazoo of yours?" "The four of you who came in last were grossly selfish.
To do him justice, he sang the best that he knew how, but that wasn't saying much for quality. Dave had a good voice for a leader of men, but a poor one for a singer. Somehow, he got through the ordeal. "Now, cast your eye on the paragraph marked as number two," directed Mr. Paulson. "Mister, the 'Bazoo' in your left hand.
"The quotation from the official report, sir, being correct as a copy, is bound to be true " "Official reports at the Naval Academy are always true," retorted Paulson severely. "Proceed, sir, to the comments which the ink-slinger of the 'Bazoo' has made concerning you. Mister, read the paragraph numbered 'one."
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