num_pages: 198
description: Pops there's no use talking; we've simply got to send you to the Point. I'm sure I wish you could Colonel. Father's tried every way he could think of but cadetships don't go a-beggingout here at least. The President has only one or two 'at large' appointments this year and there were over a thousand applications for them. Well have you tried Mr. Pierce the Congressman for this district? Oh yes sir tried him long ago. He was very politeCongressmen always are. He asked me to go round and get all the signatures to my application I possibly could and kept me running for six weeks or so. Then he gave it to Mr. Breifogle's son.
language: English
title: Cadet Days
publisher: None