Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 380
t is well that there are some such pleasuresfor the young boys, for otherwise the hardshipsand discipline of the service would becomemost irksome. Every spring and summer the apprenticesare taken aboard some of the older vesselsof the navy and are sent abroad for a cruise,during which, under… … THE BUGLE COKPS AT PRACTICE. A chaplain in the navy is detailed regularly and loosing sail, of abandoning ship, and offor duty among the boys, and to look after aiming and firing the guns on board, anti-them in any way he may think most condu- quated though they may be. 368 APPRENTICES OF THE…
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