Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An United States Midshipman Afloat
Through this scene of activity two boys walked briskly. Their clothing was new and in the latest style. It clung to their well set up figures, betraying the hand of the military tailor. Each carried a bright leather suit case to the top of which a cased sword was strapped.
Emerging from the tangle of buildings, the youths glanced about, and an exclamation of pleasure escaped them as a View of their nation's sea power met their eyes: ten huge battle-ships resplendent in their glassy white and contrasting buff paint lay tied up, filling every foot of the dock frontage.
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