"This is beautiful," remarked Tom, as he looked at the puddle in the company's street.
"We ought to have dug another ditch to let that water run off," remarked Dick.
"Well, nobody wants to go out now and dig."
"That is true."
Instead of abating the rain became more violent as the afternoon advanced.
"This looks as if we were going to have some wind," remarked Major Larry with a doubtful shake of his head.
"I hope it doesn't blow too heavily," said Captain Putnam.
"Don't you think I had better caution the fellows to pin down their tents extra hard?"
"It would do no harm, Major Colby."
"Then I'll do it," said Larry, and issued the order without delay. Some of the cadets grumbled at being driven out into the wet, but the majority knew they were doing the work for their own good and went at it without a murmur.
At about sundown the wind fell and after supper it was as calm as it had been before the itorm started.
"Told you there wasn't any use of getting wet pounding down stakes," growled Lew Flapp. He had done his work in a slip-shod fashion,
