Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 124
something at fault withthe very first piece ! What is it? And the cadetslooking on crane their necks eagerly to see. Oh,it is only a hair caught on the sight,— not enoughfor the cadet to be cut on. But the next gunfares worse. The adjutant runs his finger alongthe edge of the stock, and then holds… … THE CANDIDATE FOR COLOR-MAN RECEIVING THE LAST TOUCHES FROM HIS CLASSMATES. his fate,—luck, he calls it,— leaves the line, cut on colors, and returns to his guard. Now the adjutant comes to one with whom hecan find nothing wrong. It is Craw, and the Acompany lookers-on become jubilant at the pros-…
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