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Copyright, 1897, by HARPER & BROTHERS. All Rights Reserved.

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[Illustration]

CRYING TOMMY.

BY MOLLY ELLIOT SEAWELL.


Jenks, the master-at-arms, otherwise known as Jimmylegs, was the best
Jimmylegs in the naval service of the United States. His countenance was
usually as stolid as a mummy's, and his voice as steady as the Sphinx's
might have been. He would have announced "The magazine is on fire, sir,"
in precisely the same tone as "John Smith has broken his liberty, sir."
Therefore when Mr. Belton, First Lieutenant of the training-ship
_Spitfire_, in his first interview after coming aboard, detected a
rudimentary grin upon Jimmylegs's usually impassive face, he stopped
short in the perilous operation of s