Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 14, 2025
The first volume in this series will be entitled: "Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis; Or, Two Plebes at the Naval Academy." Nor did Tom Reade and Harry Hazelton fail of some very extraordinary adventures in their chosen career of engineering. Their career led them into some of the wild spots of the earth. It will all be told in the Young Engineer series.
Dan had started into the room, and Dave was about to follow, when he heard an unusually loud thud at the further end of the deck. "Danny boy, the plebes must be getting it hard to-night." "I'd like to see the fun," muttered Dalzell, his eyes snapping with mischief. "But it doesn't seem to be any of our business. Hazing work is left in charge of the youngster crowd."
"Our skirts are clear, anyway," remarked Dick Prescott consolingly. "We told him all we knew. If he doesn't act upon it, it's his rifle, not ours, that gets fouled." Dodge not only believed the hoax to be impossible, with him on number three, but he was incautious enough to talk about it freely among the plebes during the day.
So the "plebes" soon dropped their air of conscious superiority and presently began to treat him as an equal; a change which he reported to his father with evident satisfaction.
We are not to be treated like plebes, especially by any members of our own class who may be dressed in a little brief authority. Sit down, won't you, Stubbs?" "No, thank you, Jordan. I must be on my way soon." "But I want to get you and a half a dozen other representative first classmen together," wheedled Jordan. "I think we should all talk this over as a strictly class matter.
Barney was shrewd and ready-witted, while Hans, for all of his speech and his blundering ways, was much brighter than he appeared. Still being plebes, Merriwell and Hodge had been assigned to the "cock-loft" of the third division, which meant the top floor on the north side of the barracks the sunless side.
In the course of the next hour the youngsters told these new midshipmen much about the life at the Naval Academy that it would otherwise have taken the two plebes long to have found out for themselves. They were initiated into much of the slang language that the older midshipmen use when conversing together. Many somewhat obscure points in the regulations were made clear to them.
For a youngster to be "spoons on" a new fourth classman means for the former to treat the latter very nearly as though he were a human being. "Now, you green dandelions may go," suggested Mr. Trotter, turning to the four "visiting" plebes. As soon as this had come about Trotter turned to Dave Darrin.
When the meal was over, while many of the upper class men remained outside in the warm June air, the plebes were ordered to go to their rooms and start in making themselves familiar with the thousand-and-more regulations. "Thank goodness they give us some time for light reading," muttered Dan Dalzell, as he stalked into his room, hung up his uniform cap and sank into a chair. "Whew!
"My trip has convinced me that I'd sooner tote the water bucket at West Point than own a steam yacht and an automobile anywhere else." Greg's fellow plebes gave a yell of approval, and even some of the upper class men nodded approvingly, if somewhat haughtily. Hard work went on; for these were anxious days for the plebes. Would some of them be dropped at the end of this first year?
Word Of The Day
Others Looking