He did a good deal of serious thinking throughout the day, and saw and felt his wrongdoing.

He became an attentive, obedient pupil, and years after, when grown to manhood, he warmly thanked Mr.Pangborn for having punished him with such severity, frankly adding: "I believe if you hadn't done so I should have ended my career in the penitentiary." Dr.Dewey wished to give George a career in the army, and he sent him to Norwich University, a military training school, in order to fit him for the Military Academy at West Point.

George's tastes, however, were for the navy, and after much pleading with his father he brought him to his way of thinking.

The utmost that Dr.Dewey could do was to secure the appointment of his son as alternate, who, as may be understood, secures the appointment only in the event of the principal failing to pass the entrance examination.

In this case the principal would have passed without trouble, and, to quote an ordinary expression, George Dewey would have been "left," had not the mother of the other boy interposed at the critical moment.