For then 100 or more British naval ships would have joined the Panama naval procession and any possible enemy would have seen that combined fleet clean across the Pacific.
Now this may all be a mere Christmas fancy--a mere yarn about what might have been--because we wouldn't have sent ships here in our old mood; the crew would have missed one Sunday School.

But it's _this kind_ of thing that does the trick.

But this means the practice of courtesy, and we haven't acquired the habit.

Two years or more ago the training ships from Annapolis with the cadets aboard anchored down the Thames and stayed several weeks and let the boys loose in England.

They go on such a voyage every two years to some country, you know.