the boathouse they found P

" said he. "My, but wasn't it mean of old Crabtree

loop again," said Jack, and

tain," answered Pepper. "Perhaps we

't do a

We've got ten min

rtment, just off the main classroom. They found th

t can I do for you?" he sai

, sir," they answered, and then

ned with close attention, and q

ill, there may be nothing of importance in it. If y

Jack, and then he and h

e in getting out on the parade ground. It was a beautiful day i

one of the old army officers present, and then the cadets o

n charge of Company A, to which Jack, Pepper, and Andy b

n, Captain Putnam came forth and mo

he command of Captain Wilson and Lieutenants Plummer and Montgomery, who have drilled you thoroughly in the arts and duties of the soldier. These in

hout. "Three cheers

his assistants!" was the added cry, a

l find hung up in the general library and in the gymnasium. Of these names the first eight are eligible for the rank of major of the battalion, and all are eligible for the rank of captain, or first or

her shout, as the c

moment later. "Carry arms! Present arms! S

round twice, and then into the mess-hall, where each cadet took his place at one or another of the long din

r. "I saw Peleg Snuggers tacking it up in the gym as I came away

on it, too, Joe,

ious cadet, hailing from Philadelphia. "And Andy Snow

ce of Josiah Crabtree. "If I hear any more of

was rarely that he had any tro

sty enough to make pie of," w

ill have silence!" And he looked around the board so

ak. The former scowled darkly at Jack and Andy, whi

rrence in the school yard, and watching his chance, he leaned back in his

ad been done, but then he made a side tu

me with a pin?" he

boys on both sides of him w

ck?" questioned George St

h! oh! Something is down my back!" And the sneak

the matter," said the teacher, and still twisting

ou know anyth

, s

; what could b

ence, and then the sneak came b

, too," he said. "Somebody must h

ds joined. Pepper winked at Jack, Andy

to the library of Putnam Hall and to the gymnasium

es next, Jack is third, Henry Lee fourth, myself fifth, Dave

or," came from a cadet named Dale Blackmore

eturned Jack. "That means

f the football team," an

ding the merits of the different candidates. As among men, and especiall

be major," said Jack. "He

dier than you are, J

pper. "Jack ought to be major,

me from a cadet who had just strolled in. "Someb

u mean with mone

ebody t

Why, who in this school would

d of rocks all right enoug

me from Pepper, and he motio

s really offering money for votes?"

an piece of business. Why, in politics that i

it's seldom a b

om a small cadet they learned he was down by

hore, they reached the bath-houses without being seen. As it was past the bathing season, the houses

ed their ears, in the voice of Dan Baxter. "Besides, you know well

o blow one's own hor

from a big boy named Gus Coulter. He, too, was a bully, and,

you five do

give it

ise to do all you ca

ey," answered Gus Coulter. "I'd jus

?" put in Mumps, who was prese

, Mumps," said the bully.

on this?" came fro

Nick, if you'll vote for me and

worth as much as Gus Coulte

ted I'll give you

Dan. As Gus says, I'd just as s

whispered Andy Snow. "Baxter can

ake his money," whispered Pepper

ded a rough voice behind them, and a ca

use. "Humph! Pepper Ditmore and Andy Snow! So you've been spy