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"We have a pilot aboard!" sang out someone on deck. "A lightning sort of pilot to ram her nose on the Galloper!" growled the old skipper. "Do you want any assistance?" "Stand by for a bit and we'll see." So the Esperanza went to leeward of the shoal and hove-to. Presently the stranger signalled, "Come on board of us." Then Joe said, "That fellow's in a frap before his time, skipper.
But he declared that I buttoned it up while facing him, and so I'm on my way to place myself on report for an offense that I didn't commit." "Clairy just sent me to the O.C. to frap the pap for having my shoes unlaced," remarked Dave, his face flushing darkly. "I don't know. I can't see his game clearly. But he's certainly hunting trouble." "Then "
"I was making believe to march straight by the fellow's desk," resumed Dan, "when Clairy brought me up sharply. Told me to frap the pap for strolling with my hands in my pockets. I didn't do anything like that." In another hour indignation was running riot in that division.
"You're jest as good as some as makes a frap about bein' good. I think, sir, you put's on some of that light-come-go-away kind of a game." "Never mind; we'll only hope we'll have no more cases like that exactly. I don't know how we should have managed if there had been such another last week." "That was a strongish sea, and we're sure of more."
There was a slow pause. "Can you get to our boat, Archelaus?" asked the Commandant. The two sergeants heard his voice drag on the question. They could not see his face. "She's afloat, sir," answered Sergeant Archelaus. "Find the frap then, and pull her in." "Is it our boat you're meaning, sir?" asked Archelaus, hesitating. "Certainly."
Excuse me, sir, have you done what they call found Christ? I'm not much in that line myself, but don't you think maybe an odd word wouldn't be some help like in this frap? I'm passin' away, and I don't want to leave anything out." Lewis slipped up on deck and signed for Larmor. "Our man wants to pray. Don't you think we may all meet? You can do nothing more than let the vessel drift.
To obviate this, and further, to compass the bending of the bow, the which had, at first, been a source of puzzlement to me as to how it was to be accomplished, I had determined to make twelve separate bows, and these I intended to fasten at the end of the stock one above the other, so that they were all in one plane vertically, and because of this conception, I should be able to bend the bows one at a time, and slip each string over the catch-notch, and afterwards frap the twelve strings together in the middle part so that they would be but one string to the butt of the arrow.
I am under orders to see that there is no talking in the section when marching." "Not even a solitary, teeny little word, eh?" "Not if I can stop it," replied Dave. "And what if you can't stop it?" "Then I am obliged to direct the offender to put himself on the report." "Great Scott! Would you tell your chum to frap the pap for a little thing like that, and take demerits unto himself?"
"And that perhaps you've saved us from bilging?" added Midshipman Hayes. "I'm such a greenhorn about the Navy, sir, that I am afraid I don't follow you in the least, sir," Darrin replied quietly. Then they explained to him that the "pap" is the conduct report, and that "to frap" is to hit. To "frap the pap" means to "get stuck on" the conduct report for a breach of discipline.
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