(4) The drilling of guns crews for the merchant ships.

Himself the son of a clergyman, Alexander Carlyle had a good school-drilling in Prestonpans, where he was born.

When they heard them cackle, they paused in their drilling for ore, and one of them called to the birds: "Where are you going?

So, right after I got this drilling through the leg, you remember, I wrote a letter?" "Sure."

At sixteen's stage of cruel hazing into man's estate Edwin Ross, whose voice, all in a breath, could slip up from the quality of rock in the drilling to the more brittle octave of early-morning milk-bottles, wore a nine shoe and a thirteen collar.

[Illustration: A LIFE-SAVING CREW DRILLING WITH BEACH APPARATUS Hauling in a breeches-buoy and a passenger.]