United States Naval Academy - Lucky Bag Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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est to make the lady ' s favor at tlie German a waffle-iron or a 111 ticket to the (h-an.l Opera in Washington, turned l,.,,.-e his it vocahulai-y on the rodni in general • ' When 1 was having the June Hall lists taken around last year raw hve reluctant plunks front the pockets of all you hloated l-hiilders. I turned them over for a couple of days to George .Mui-ray. Ah 1 ' (ju catch my drift, do }-ou, George? ell, when I traipsed d wii ti see how he had come out. and to figure up the total receipts. 1 found that George had heen shirking his jusf duties scandalously, and had only ailded twenty John Henrys to the list. As I was ahout to take the lists away, a little sore, George had a hrain-throli. ' ( )h, 1 say, just wait a minute: there ' s the name of a man who ' s a friend of mine. 1 can get him. ' You ' re a good kid, George, hut you sure haven ' t got a husiness head. .Ml this time the Editor hail heen tearing his hair at a great rate, and now had a hig pile of notes het(ire him on the tahle. Someone rose with a yawn, and said it was about time to turn in, and as if to echo the sentiment the notes of Tattoo drifted up from the rotunda. Haddy, George. hihnn - and lien Clay put their heads together and started One more river to cross. Ever}dne chimed in, and as the liunch limke up and dispersed up and down the cor- ridor, the scattered refrain was wafted back to cheer the weary Editor on to a two-hour seance before he could turn in, his conscientious scruples satisfied. THE END

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at the oU- Ritz, my lionif is in P.dsloii, and T want a very nice walking-stick— a cane, you know. 1 want tlii cane, .-n,.! want it HgiU away! lintel Ritz, K-i-t-z ! ' I tohl y.m T was going to get that in on you, Geofge. My saying ' Xo thank you, ' when you aske l me to have another skag, remarked Irish, taking an inh.ale on ;i fresh cigarette, reminds me that some .Mi.lshipmeii I know are getting awl ' ullv ahseiit-minded. I linck was out in town the other day, and just as he was passing around State Circle, met . lr. I ' cnner and his wife, and in (|nile an .ilMiand way, came up to a sahUe, and s;ud M-irst Cirade, Sir. ' Xo, Mr. I ' enuer didn ' t say ' Very good. ' Well, that isn ' t as had. as Dick ' s going out in town the other day when the uniform was overcoats, and forgetting to jnit on his hlouse, s:iid Monk Read. It certainly is lucky that his head is glued on, lor he sin ' e has kept 1 lnd,ly Inisy thinking for two. i ' lill Simcius was tickled at this, and with a wary glance at Dick to see if he was unrolling his good right arm. t lil this one: Last year, when the minstrel show came otif, Buhher was one of the ushers. . s usiial, the . las(|ueraders were playing to a full house, and ladies were coming in faster than the ushers cnuld handle them. Buhlier rushed up to a seat that was filled with earl arrivals aiuoiig tlie midshipmen, and talking faster than he could think, as he usnally does, asked them to clear out and give the ladies their seats. Some of them did, Init Dick, wdio was sitting on the furthest end from L ' .ubl)cr, turned a deaf ear and looked blissfully the other wav. ' i ' hat night, when they had both returned to their room, Bubber, who had been bubbling over with wrath, looked rejiroach fully at Dick and said, ' I didn ' t spec tlum dem ' anks to get up, Dick, biU 1 suttinly sjiected you h ' But Dick was sound asleep. Speaking of fool stunts, said the Swede, wdien they had stopped twitting Dick, do any of you people remember that famous stateiuent that I ' .ishop Mc- (Juarrie put in to Mr. Steele nne da ? It went some- thing like this: ' Sir, I respectfully state in regard to the I ' eport No towel on rack, that I was absent fri m .h-iU ..n that date.— ' ery respectfully, Joiix Doi :, Mid- slnpm;in. Secmd Class. ( ;. W. is still looking for the m:m that jnit it in. isn ' t he. jack ()? ' The Bishop, who was reading a mag.-izine with Smitty, looked uji, and smiled sheepishly. About this time. They, who had been over in the c.rner holding ;m excited debate with himself and anvone else who would listen as to whether it wonl.l

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