The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-07-02 00:00:00

-1N)IIPIDO TRACTICC

It was not very long before those saute directors of
the Steamer Company, heard news which enabled
them to offer special attractions. The Lively having
returned from the training ship with the Cadets on
board, including, it was said, the two young sailor
Princes, torpedo practice MN announced, to be
witnevaed by the Cadets, in honour of the arrival. A
special
party soon gathered (for the notice warn TOl7
ort) on board the beautiful Premier, whose board
raised deck offered a fine look-out post, and was well
filled hYlniunoiessors .1 b ith sexes, while the ordinary
deck carried a goodly company. A gentle brevet,
tempered the immense beet poured down from
Plies'ots, and set all the flap flattering ma we rounded
the fort-girded Nolte Ca • tem Covens at once wisely
bean down on the Admiral's ship Heoculea, and
"Something is afloat," visibly and literally, for a
number of the whiis amooth•ided torpedo boats are
spied, each with a red torpedo at the end of a
long pole. The gunboets Blazer ani Bustard
steam up, with the sun's rays refiected from
them snowy white, and each
jib-hoes
hes what looks
Ilk, a great bowsprit di at the jib-bo end
below the sea. Other launches rush about, each with
projecting
ki
apoke red-tippsd, and the apace astern o/ the
soon all alive with these sea.unicorna,
each with • red torpedo at the end of its horn. "Not
such a bad position to see what I. done,"exults Captain
Come.; but the passengers cry "Where are the
Primes? "There in the Hercules at lunch," mars
g wag. "shall we go and look la ag the cabin windows
for them r Hardly polite, I'm alrei.l," adds the
igver-courteons captain; but it did somehow happen
that oar Premier in a few minutes dropped " promis-
cuously" very close to the port-hole of the central
starn-aanw gun. Of course on looked the other way
on passing the Admiral's perkier (or some of us) and
in that other direction was the swift Lively, swarming
blue-black. "Why I all the cadets are gone back on
board their own ship to dinner; let's go to the
Lively, captain, at once," exclaim • dozen, sure that
out of so many young gentlemen we shall be easily
able to find a Prince or two. Up we steam, and
the bogs rush to the sides, mount the
sit 011 the billrrirkig Or WOO Ogina.4 lb°
by bandied% aed our biked (Yr. Jonas) isisa a

" draw" by playing "God bless the PAX* at Wales.'
An attempt at a chest is squiewbat checked by a
smothered laugh frem the ; but our baud is equal
to the occasion, and etrikes up" (lodises the Queen."
Off go all the c ttrt; but tboae lively yotithesatirically
enquire " What tune is that? Never hes..l that
before!" Dear! dear I this won't do, to be lau,rhe,l at
by those young sparks, and we console ountrlvr. by
searching for the Princ-s. At last a gentleman who
has atudi,il the liken,,-es of the Royal Family,
tirades on two likely lade wrcbed near the ganzway,
thAr well-marked likeness to their Mother,
you know." The remount, is an at perfect, end
we are reuly to shoot f ,r the Queen's grandsons,
there being only one .w—Captaio t',4ens has certain
informs. ion they are not I. the Lively, hut on hoard
the Hercules Have we come out to be yoked on
our return—. What went ye on for to seer and
shall we co tees to mis-ing the Pricers? Perish the
thought—the Princes well have, even th ,uyti with
the Admiral they are lunching now in another ship.
Or, happy thouzitt ! a compromise will save our self-
esteem; the Admiral shall keep one at lunch, and
that one with the white cord round his neck, he
shall be a Prince, for a Prince we name out for, and
a Panne we'll find So all the Prince-buntere
reverenced the young gentleman with the white
cord. But wouldn't it be convenient if some outward
and vii,ble sign marked out Royalty from other
I m .rtals