...e hand the little fellow,--short for his age, dressed in the sailor's blue pants and shirt,--I advanced with him to the President, who sat in his usual seat, and said: Mr. President, my young friend, Willie Bladen , finds a difficulty about his appointment. You have directed him to appear at the school in July; but he is not yet fourteen years of age. But before I got half of this out, Mr. Lincoln, laying ...