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McCutcheon had but just resumed his seat when the newly finished rear wall of the mess-hall crashed into the room. Where had been rocks and cement was a gaping void, and a view of a garden white with snow. While we were rescuing the song writer from the débris McCutcheon regarded the fallen wall thoughtfully.
So both armies fell back toward Salonika on a line between Kilindir and Doiran railroad-station, and all the places we visited a week before were occupied by the enemy. At Gravec a Bulgarian is pointing at the wicked ones who are being driven into the flames and saying: "The Allies," and at Strumnitza station in the mess-hall Bulgar officers are framing John McCutcheon's sketches.
"Yes, missie, lamb. I knows I knows. Cynthy, she done got it made to de very top-notch pint," answered Jerome, hurrying away upon noiseless feet and in all his immaculate whiteness from the crown of his white woolly head to his duck uniform, for the Severndale servants wore the uniforms of the mess-hall rather than the usual household livery. Neil Stewart could not abide "cit's rigs."
But Quin began to laugh, and in spite of herself she laughed back; and, while the two were childishly struggling for the possession of the door-handle, Captain Phipps all unnoticed passed out of the mess-hall, gave a few instructions to his waiting orderly, and disappeared in the darkness.
Tell the head waiter I sent you in." "Yes, sir," said Jack, and he and Fred hurried off to the mess-hall. The waiter was inclined to grumble a little at having to serve them at such a late hour, but, nevertheless, he got them plenty to eat, and they pitched in as only hungry boys can. On the following morning came word from Cedarville that Mr.
On the lower floor of the main building were the classrooms, the mess-hall, and the offices, and upstairs were the dormitories.
Crabtree?" asked The Imp, as meekly as he could. "You know well enough!" cried the teacher. "Come!" And he led Pepper out of the mess-hall. His grip on the youth's arm was so firm that it hurt not a little. "Mr. Crabtree, you are hurting my arm." "I don't care if I am!" snapped the teacher. "You come along!" And he fairly dragged Pepper along the hall. "Where to?" "You'll soon see."
The other professors had a mess in a room adjoining the mess-hall. A few more cadets joined in the course of the winter, so that we had in all, during the first term, seventy-three cadets, of whom fifty-nine passed the examination on the 30th of July, 1860.
"Now, what are those fellows up to?" mused Joe, as he walked slowly to the mess-hall. "No good, I'll venture." He sat down and commenced to eat. Then, of a sudden, he uttered an exclamation. "I've got it! That's it!" "What is it, Nelson?" asked George Strong. "Oh er nothing," stammered the cadet. But when the teacher was not looking, he leaned over towards Jack.
Up as one man sprang the startled battalion. Had Holt gone mad? Had Frazier a fit? For answer came cheers from those nearest the door, cheers that spread like wildfire from table to table, and all in a second every young soldier was swinging a napkin and shouting like mad some leaping on chairs, some even mounting the tables, a scene such as the mess-hall never witnessed before.
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