A series of tug-of-war pulls enlivened the trip. The New Haven division won from Bridgeport and Hartford from New Haven. Thus it was for the Hartford team to pull the ship’s team. This contest came and to the astonishment of all, the Hartford men won. And so it was that when the division returned half of the lads were hoarse. Bugler L. Wayne Adams was in high feather during the trip. He had memorized the calls and sounded them accurately. By virtue of his high office he was excused from previous service as messman; for much of the cruise he was a man of elegant leisure. On his return to Wethersfield, residents of Jordan Lane and the Nail Keg Club at Hanmer’s grocery heard many a fine yarn, spun in Wayne’s best style. The old rifle range in the South Meadow was discontinued, owing to the increased range and power of the rifles just introduced into the Connecticut National Guard. In consequence the division’s fall target practice was conducted over the range in South Manchester. Acting as a marker, Landsman Hill was hit by a deflected bullet, which was found later in his shoe. Hill was taken to the Hartford Hospital. Following the indoor meet, given successfully, of course, the division began to prepare to celebrate its tenth anniversary. The banquet was held in the Hartford Club. In the blue uniform the men of the division attending mustered for entry into the dining room, to the strains of a march. A dismounted signal gun of old-time size from the Dauntless rested at the center of the head table, flanked by two silver cups, trophies won by athletic teams from the division. Knife bayonets of the new kind rested on the cups. Two stacks of rifles afforded resting-place for the division’s colors. The menu cards contained the following: “_Such a deal of skimble, skamble stuff As puts me from my faith._” HENRY IV. “_A page where men May read strange matters._” MACBETH. X Home Port Routine X Call All Hands [Illustration] Heave Anchor to Short Stay Serve Grog Stand by for a Blow Up and Down Port Marine Growth Bleached Starboard Hot Suds Served Forward on Turtle Deck Bony Walks the Plank to the Wake Dutch Sea Apples Sliced Irish Torpedoes Cascarets “Damn the Torpedoes! Go Ahead” Sea Cow off Madeira Spud Chippies Burnside Bullets [Sidenote: Bumboat Along Side, Sir] Lyman Root Punch Fruit Scouse Vesuvius Ice “Up all——”