I always liked the sea." "Doesn't your father approve of your doing this ?" "He wouldn't mind my entering the navy as an officer, but he is not willing to have me enter the merchant service." "Then why doesn't he send you to the Naval Academy ?" "Because I can't enter without receiving the appointment from a member of Congress.

Our member can only appoint one, and there is no vacancy.

So, as I can't go where I want to, I am preparing for Harvard." "Are you studying Latin and Greek ?" "Yes." "Have you studied them long ?" "About two years.

I was looking over my Greek lesson when you playfully tumbled over me." "Will you let me look at your book?
I never saw a Greek book." "I sometimes wish I never had," said Oscar; "but that's when I am lazy." Harry opened the book--a Greek reader--in the middle of an extract from Xenophon, and looked with some awe at the unintelligible letters.
"Can you read it?
Can you understand what it means ?" he asked, looking up from the book.
"So-so." "You must know a great deal." Oscar laughed.
"I wonder what Dr.Burton would say if he heard you," he said.
"Who is he ?" "Principal of our Academy.

He gave me a blowing up for my ignorance to-day, because I missed an irregular Greek verb.