But the other fellows would find some other way of using that home-paper write-up as a club for pounding us every now and then.

Mr.Pollock, believe me, cadet is mighty lucky whose home paper doesn't say anything about him." "What is the matter ?" asked the editor gravely.

"Are the other cadets jealous ?" "No; it isn't that," Prescott answered.

"That sort of thing is done, at West Point, to keep from getting the 'big head.' Probably your memory goes back easily to the Spanish War days.

You will remember that Mr.Hobson, of the Navy, sank the Merrimac in the harbor at Santiago, so that the Spanish ships, when they got out, had to come out in single file.