" "Good, Darry!" cried several midshipmen.

"Don't you know that you didn't?" inquired one of the midshipmen laconically.

commanded Hepson, almost at a white heat of resentment, "Among midshipmen and gentlemen there can be no thought of what you term 'dirty work.'

At last he called up the commandant of midshipmen, stated the case and asked if he might grant the permission.

Immediately after the meal the three midshipmen reported their departure into Annapolis.

"Because, sir, it is contrary to the spirit of the brigade of midshipmen to carry tales against each other.

I wonder why you will go on formulating your own canons of honor, even when such beliefs sometimes result in the dismissal of midshipmen from the service.

" The three midshipmen, not being questioned, remained silent.

"I shall have to pass this matter on to the commandant of midshipmen," decided the O.C. "Mr. Totten, you will go to your quarters and remain there, until further orders, save only for meal formations.

The commandant of midshipmen sent for Mr. Totten.

"Now, as to our other three midshipmen," pursued the superintendent, "at most they only rushed in to see fair play.

The midshipmen simply couldn't keep their minds from wandering to the gridiron.

While hundreds of midshipmen felt desperately blue on the homeward journey, Dalzell had already nearly forgotten his disappointment.

" It was a night of unusually light attendance on the part of the fair sex, with a rather larger attendance than usual of midshipmen, for which reason Dave found many other midshipmen outside, strolling up and down.

Dave told the story, briefly, adding: "Under the midshipmen's code, the blow had to be struck when the lie was passed.

Waving his arms wildly in the heat of his anger, Midshipman Jetson hurried from the room, midshipmen moving aside to favor his swift exit.

Utter indignation seized some of the midshipmen.

The class seethed with interest in the affair, but with many of the midshipmen there was a belief that here was a case where slow and thoughtful consideration would be best for all concerned.

On the other hand, Jetson, surely you do not consider yourself right in refusing an apology for a remark in which you thoughtlessly cast an unjust reflection upon the whole body of midshipmen.

The balance of the afternoon belonged to the midshipmen, though most of them found it necessary to give the time to study.

Seating himself on the bar, he sat looking about at the few other midshipmen who were exercising at that hour.

Some, meanwhile, preferred a steeple- chase with water-jumps, after the fashion of the midshipmen on a certain second visit to the lake.

Out of the scrub, when we were there, flew off two or three night- jars, very like our English species, save that they had white in the wings; and on the second visit, one of the midshipmen, true to the English boy's birds'-nesting instinct, found one of their eggs, white-spotted, in a grass nest.

It can be scraped up, moulded into any shape you will; wound in a string (as was done by one of the midshipmen) round a stick, and carried off: but nothing is left on the hand save clean gray mud and water.

The simple and novel means adopted for raising the ship attracted considerable attention among the officers of the fleet, and by way of stimulating the studies of the junior officers in this branch of their duties, a prize was offered for the best essay on the subject, to be competed for by the midshipmen of the various ships.