For these reasons, and because I do not seem fit for anything else, I am going into the city to-morrow to enlist in whatever regiment I find forming." "Oh, my boy! my boy!" cried Mrs.Norris, flinging her arms around her son's neck, "do not go tomorrow.

Wait a little longer, but one week, until we can see what will happen.

After that I will not seek further to restrain you.

It is your mother who prays." "All right, mother dear, I will wait a few days to please you, though I cannot see what difference it will make." So the young man waited as patiently as might be a week longer, and before it was ended the whole country was ringing with the wonderful news of Admiral George Dewey's swift descent upon the Philippine Islands with the American Asiatic squadron.

With exulting heart every American listened to the thrilling story of how this modern Farragut stood on the bridge of the Olympia, and, with a fine contempt for the Spanish mines known to be thickly planted in the channel, led his ships into Manila Bay.