Name: The Cruise of the Training Ship; Or, Clif Faraday's Pluck
Author: Upton Sinclair
ISBN: 978-3985317165

The Cruise of the Training Ship; Or, Clif Faraday's Pluck

By Upton Sinclair 6 Jun, 2022

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Excerpt.....“Handsomely there! Not so fast. One more pull and we’ve got——” “Ow-w! Wow-w-w!” “Blazes! Clap your hand over his mouth. Quick! The officer of the deck will be down in a jiffy.” ... Read more

Excerpt.....“Handsomely there! Not so fast. One more pull and we’ve got——”

“Ow-w! Wow-w-w!”

“Blazes! Clap your hand over his mouth. Quick! The officer of the deck will be down in a jiffy.”

“Murder! Let go, you little imp! Let go or I’ll——”

Thud! Smack!

“You will bite my finger, eh? Take that, you miserable plebe. I say, Crane, just hold his head while I beat a reveille on his mug.”

“Wait a bit until we get him served and spliced, Dodge. He’s kicking like a steering wheel in a nor’east gale. There, that’s it. Another turn about his arms and we’ll have the rat dead to rights. Now, Mr. Nanny Gote, how do you like it?”

The speaker, a tall, heavily-built youth in a naval cadet uniform, grinned complacently into the upturned face of a youngster lying stretched out upon the orlop deck of the Naval Academy practice ship Monongahela.

The victim, for such his uncomfortable position and bound arms proclaimed him to be, was much younger than his chief tormentor, and was, moreover, slight and rather delicate in appearance.

His white face indicated his alarm, and he looked up pleadingly at the group surrounding him. He could not speak, perforce, for a wad of spun oakum filled the cavity of his mouth, fastened there by a tarry length of rope.....

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