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They had never taken account of the days when meat was due, ascribing the fixed hiatuses to the unkindness of the Chinese cook; and when they mustered at the galley door at noon and the cook handed them a huge pan of bean soup they raged at him, incoherently, but vehemently. "Whaur's th' mate the mate? Giv's the mate, ye haythen! giv's the mate, domyersool!"
The cook shrank back before their gleaming eyes and threatening fists, and they crowded into the galley, where, as fate determined, the mild little steward was gathering up the cabin dinner. He seized his brick. "Now, here, you men," he said, bravely, "you get right out of this galley. Do you hear?" And he waved his brick threateningly. "Whaur's the mate? Giv's the mate, ye man-killers."
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