Word: midshipmans
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...High Admiral is usually he who has been sent from college the greatest number of times; the Vice-Admiral is the poorest scholar in the class; the Rear-Admiral, the laziest fellow in the class; the Commodore; one addicted to boating; the Captain a jolly blade; the Lieutenant and Midshipman fellows of the same description; the Chaplain the most profane; the Surgeon a dabbler in surgery, or in medicine or anything else; the Ensign the tallest member of the class; the Boatswain one most inclined to obscenity; the Drum-Major the most aristocratic, and his assistants, fellows of the same...
...shore. Up a flight of stairs they went a trifle doubtful as to whether they would be loaded with irons and sent below, or treated like brothers and welcomed on board. However, on the "historian's" bland request that they might be allowed to inspect the vessel, a midshipman was called up and the party intrusted...
...Saturday at 2. "The Royal Middy," an adaptation of Genee's "Der Seekadet," is a bright piece very well acted and sung by the company which performed it with such success in New York. Miss Catherine Lewis is excellent as Fanchette, the gipsy girl who disguises herself as a midshipman, in order to get her friend Don Lamberto (Mr. Hatch) out of an awkward predicament. June 14, "All the Rage," which is said to be very amusing...