"You musics will fall in for aiming and sighting drill each morning," called out Sergeant Douglass, who saw them at their labors. "Although you aren’t required to handle a gun you are required to know how to shoot straight. Come to my office when you get through with that work, and I’ll give you each a score book which one of our Marine Officers got up and it will give you all the best dope on rifle shooting." It was not long before the boys were applying for the promised books. "When shall we have a chance to fire on the range?" asked Dick. "From the ’galley yarns’[#] flying about the ship, it would not surprise me if we were on our way to Guantanamo in a day or two, and when we get there I’m going to try my best to have the guard put through the regular Marine Corps practice as well as the Navy course, and I want to keep our high showing up to standard." [#] In some mysterious way stories get started on shipboard, generally founded on guess or rumor and turn out to be true; all are supposed to start in the "galley," hence the name. "Do we get a medal or anything like that out of it?" asked Henry. "Yes, you have an opportunity to get a number of things out of it. The marines shoot the same course for qualification as that prescribed for the army. There are three grades which pay you well for trying to do your best. The highest is that of expert rifleman. If you qualify, you get five dollars more pay per month from the date of qualification to the end of your enlistment and also a silver badge,--crossed rifles with a wreath around them. Sharpshooter pays you three dollars per month till you next shoot for record the following year and a badge consisting of a silver Maltese cross, while a marksman’s qualification pays two dollars and you get only a silver bar with ’Marksman’ on it. But you will find out all about it in those books. Run along now and don’t bother me any more with your questions. By the way, Cabell, to-morrow morning you will report to Ensign Gardiner as orderly for the summary court-martial at ten-o’clock, in the ward-room. Mr. Gardiner is the recorder of the court." "What is the recorder of a court?" asked Henry, who was as full of questions at times as a hive is of bees. "He is to a summary court what the judge advocate is to a general court, and the prosecuting attorney to a civil court," answered the First Sergeant patiently, "and I hope your acquaintance with all of these gentlemen may be that of an orderly or a witness only. And, Comstock, speaking of witnesses, reminds me you had better stand by for a call, as both Williams and Choiniski are to be tried to-morrow for smuggling liquor on board ship." Promptly at ten o’clock the next morning the "musics" were in attendance at the meeting of the court-martial, but no testimony was required, as the accused sailors both pleaded "guilty" to the specifications[#] preferred against them, and merely put in a plea for clemency.