faggot-piles

Updated: July 12, 2026

True, the band played as a matter of duty, but as the midshipmen marched down Maryland Avenue in brigade formation they passed many a heap of faggots and many a tar-barrel that had been placed there by the boys of the town to kindle into bonfires with which to welcome the returning victors. But to-night the faggot-piles and the tar-barrels lay unlighted.

H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock - Dave Darrin's Third Year at Annapolis: Leaders of the Second Class Midshipmen