Ralph Osborn, Midshipman at Annapolis
Ralph Osborn, Midshipman at Annapolis by Edward L. (Edward Latimer) Beach is available here as the complete text, split into 958 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Ralph Osborn, Midshipman at Annapolis: A Story of Life at the U.S. Naval Academy by Edward L. (Edward Latimer) Beach. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #61610.
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II A Competitive Examination for the Naval Academy
- Chapter III Mr. Thomas G. Short and His Man
- Chapter IV Short’s Method of Passing an Examination
- Chapter V Short’s Naval Career Is Short
- Chapter VI Himskihumskonski
- Chapter VII The Summer Practice Cruise Begins
- Chapter VIII Man Overboard
- Chapter IX Bollup’s Watch in a Queer Place
- Chapter X “Indignant Fourth Classman”
- Chapter XI “The Osborn Demonstration”
- Chapter XII Third Classman Osborn
- Chapter XIII
- Chapter XIV
- Chapter XV Ralph Is Kidnapped
- Chapter XVI Ralph Breakfasts with His Captain
- Chapter XVII A Boiler Explosion
- Chapter XVIII Third Classmen Elect Class Officers
- Chapter XIX “Professor Moehler Is a Liar and a Fool”
- Chapter XX “Osborn Never Wrote It, Sir”
- Chapter XXI Himski Saves Ralph
- Chapter XXII “Creelton, I Believe You Are the Man”
- Chapter XXIII Ralph at Bollup’s Home
- Chapter XXIV Ralph Saves Bollup from Dismissal
- Chapter XXV Ralph Has a Joke Played on Him by a Candidate
- Chapter XXVI Ralph Court-Martialed for Hazing
- Chapter XXVII Ralph Is Dismissed by Sentence of General Court Martial
- Chapter XXVIII Himski and Company Are Joyfully Astonished
- Chapter XXIX First Class Leave at Hampden Grove
- Chapter XXX “Turn Out on This Floor. Turn Out, Turn Out”
- Chapter XXXI The Thief Unmasked
- Chapter XXXII Ralph’s Lost Watch Is Found
- Chapter XXXIII Ralph Finds His Uncle at Last
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