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Reproduction of the original: Dave Darrin's First Year At Annapolis by H. Irving Hancock

"Dave, I'm getting nervous!" "Is that the best way you can find to enjoy yourself?" demanded the taller boy. "But I am, Dave-dreadfully nervous!" insisted Dan Dalzell positively. "Well, you'll have to conceal it, then. The doctors at the United States Naval Academy won't pass any nervous wrecks," laughed Dave Darrin. "Don't you understand?" demanded Dan, in a hurt voice. "The nearer we get to Annapolis the more nervous I'm getting." "You'd better drop off, then," hinted Dave ironically, "and take the next car back to Odenton and Baltimore. What earthly good would a Naval officer be who was going to get nervous as soon as he came in sight of an enemy?" "But I wouldn't get nervous in the sight the enemy," flared up Dan Dalzell. "Then why get nervous about the folks down at the Naval Academy? They all intend to be your friends!" "I guess that is true," Dan went on. "Of course, back in April, we went before the Civil Service Commission and took our academic examinations. We passed, and haven't got that to go up against again."

Harrie Irving Hancock was an American chemist and writer, mainly remembered as an author of children's literature and juveniles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and as having written a fictional depiction of a German invasion of the USA.

Reproduction of the original: Dave Darrin's Second Year At Annapolis by H. Irving Hancock

TWO ADMIRAL'S IN THE BUD "Dave, I'm getting nervous!" "Is that the best way you can find to enjoy yourself?" demanded the taller boy. "But I am, Dave-dreadfully nervous!" insisted Dan Dalzell positively. "Well, you'll have to conceal it, then. The doctors at the United States Naval Academy won't pass any nervous wrecks," laughed Dave Darrin. "Don't you understand?" demanded Dan, in a hurt voice. "The nearer we get to Annapolis the more nervous I'm getting." "You'd better drop off, then," hinted Dave ironically, "and take the next car back to Odenton and Baltimore. What earthly good would a Naval officer be who was going to get nervous as soon as he came in sight of an enemy?" "But I wouldn't get nervous in the sight the enemy," flared up Dan Dalzell. "Then why get nervous about the folks down at the Naval Academy? They all intend to be your friends!" "I guess that is true," Dan went on. "Of course, back in April, we went before the Civil Service Commission and took our academic examinations. We passed, and haven't got that to go up against again." "We passed the home medical examiner, too," retorted Dave. "In fact, you might say that we passed the sawbones with honors.

Reproduction of the original: Dave Darrin's Third Year At Annapolis by H. Irving Hancock