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Show Among the Wounded. One of the crop of stories that came from West Point with the June class was the remark of a cadet who was precious near to failure in one of his studies. His father was at the Point for the graduation exercises. The cadet was inclined to attribute his narrow squeak to the severity of the instructor, In fixing the grades. "His system of marking's pretty stiff, eh, son?" asked the pater sympathetically. sym-pathetically. "Governor,'' replied the cadet earnestly, earn-estly, "that man's system isn't mark-lug, mark-lug, it's markmanshlp." |