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Title: The Submarine Boys and the Middies
The Prize Detail at Annapolis

Author: Victor G. Durham

Release Date: November 13, 2005 [eBook #17056]

Language: English

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Note: This is book three of eight of the Submarine Boys Series.

THE SUBMARINE BOYS AND THE MIDDIES

The Prize Detail at Annapolis

by

VICTOR G. DURHAM

1909

CONTENTS

CHAPTERS
I. The Prize Detail
II. How Eph Flirted with Science
III. "You May as Well Leave the Bridge"
IV. Mr. Farnum Offers Another Guess
V. Truax Shows the Sulks
VI. Two Kinds of VooDoo
VII. Jack Finds Something "New," All Right
VIII. A Young Captain in Tatters
IX. Truax Gives a Hint
X. A Squint at the Camelroorelephant
XI. But Something Happened!
XII. Jack Benson, Expert Explainer
XIII. Ready for the Sea Cruise
XIV. The "Pollard" Goes Lame
XV. Another Turn at Hard Luck
XVI. Braving Nothing But a Sneak
XVII. The Evil Genius of the Water Front
XVIII. Held Up by Marines
XIX. The Lieutenant Commander's Verdict
XX. Coming Up in a tight Place
XXI. "No More Men Go Overboard!"
XXII. Jack Signals the "Sawbones"
XXIII. What Befell the Man in the Brig
XXIV. Conclusion

CHAPTER I

THE PRIZE DETAIL

"The United States Government doesn't appear very anxious to claim its
property, does it, sir?" asked Captain Jack Benson.

The speaker was a boy of sixteen, attired in a uniform much after the
pattern commonly worn by yacht captains. The insignia of naval rank
were conspicuously absent.

"Now, that I've had the good luck to sell the 'Pollard' to the Navy,"
responded Jacob Farnum, principal owner of the shipbuilding yard, "I'm
not disposed to grumble if the Government prefers to store its property
here for a while."

Yet the young shipbuilder--he was a man in his early thirties, who had
inherited this shipbuilding business from his father--allowed his eyes
to twinkle in