Now form a straight line, toe the crack, and call your numbers in order, beginning with the starboard watch." The boys eagerly followed this direction, though some assistance was required from the instructors in repressing their superfluous enthusiasm.
"Very well," continued Mr.Lowington, when the students were formed in two lines.

"Every boy in the starboard watch whose number is divisible by four, step forward one pace.

Number three in the port watch, do the same.

Mr.Mapps, oblige me by seeing that every alternate boy in the line steps forward." "The line is formed, sir," replied the instructor, when he had carried out the direction of the principal.
"Each watch is now divided into two parts--the first and second parts, as they will be called.

Now, young gentlemen, the clothing will be distributed, and each student will put on his uniform at once." The four lines were then marched down into the steerage, each under the charge of an instructor, to a particular locality, where the head steward and his assistants had deposited the clothing for each watch and quarter watch.