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

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. “Nanny� as he was called by his companions was a member of the plebe class at the United States Naval Academy. Those tormenting him were of the third or hazing class at the same institute. There were six in the group and they represented about the most vicious element in their class.