Download or read book The Lucky Bag, 1910, Vol. 17 (Classic Reprint) written by United States Naval Academy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Lucky Bag, 1910, Vol. 17 In the meantime the rest of the class were entering and being quartered in Bancroft Hall, spending their days wrestling with the manual or the drag-ropes of a three-inch field piece, under the watchful eye of the savvy section of the first class, who, instead of going on their regular cruise, had been kept in Annapolis to graduate in September. This was nice for the first class, but it cut us out of our share of any real plebe summer, and we deeply felt the loss. It was while the second bunch was still incomplete that we had our first acquaintance is a class with sorrow. Kennedy Benham Kilduff, though he had hardly been a member of us for a week, had already won the liking and admiration of every man who came in contact with him and his death cast a gloom over every one. Two weeks later the Standish brought Kin jiro Matsukata, who had been making the cruise on the Severn, back to the hospital for treat ment. He was operated on immediately, but it was unavailing and the plucky little fellow passed away with a smile on his lips, a stranger in a strange land. These two sad events in so short a time served to Show us that we were a class and could feel and act as such, in spite of our extreme. Youth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.