CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I.In the Storm[1]
II.Political Complications[9]
III.Under Arrest[17]
IV.Shifting for Themselves[26]
V.In New York[32]
VI.Robbed[38]
VII.“Let’s Enlist!”[46]
VIII.Joining the Navy[54]
IX.At the Training Station[62]
X.In Barracks[68]
XI.“All Aboard!”[77]
XII.The Cut Ropes[85]
XIII.Target Practice[94]
XIV.A Brave Act[103]
XV.Ordered South[110]
XVI.Heavy Seas[115]
XVII.A Chase[124]
XVIII.Big Guns Boom[133]
XIX.Ashore[140]
XX.The Riot[149]
XXI.Unexpected News[158]
XXII.The Pursuit[169]
XXIII.Overboard[177]
XXIV.The Missing Box[186]
XXV.Cleared[199]

Two Boys of the Battleship

CHAPTER I—IN THE STORM

“Say, Frank, it’s certainly getting pretty bad; isn’t it?”

“Well, Ned, it surely isn’t getting any better. I’m positive of that. Look out! Here comes a big comber!”

There was a surge of green, foam-capped water, which looked as if it would engulf and overwhelm the dory motor boat, in which crouched two youths, one about eighteen, and the other slightly older.

“Hold her nose right into it, Frank!” cried the younger lad, who was bending over the laboring motor.

“That’s what I’m doing,” was the answer of his brother, “Whoop! Some water came aboard that time!”