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Updated: May 5, 2025
On their starboard hand was Mess No. 2, embracing sundry rare jokers and high livers, who waxed gay and epicurean over their salt fare, and were known as the "Society for the Destruction of Beef and Pork." On the larboard hand was Mess No. 31, made up entirely of fore-top-men, a dashing, blaze-away set of men-of-war's-men, who called themselves the "Cape Horn Snorters and Neversink Invincibles."
"I am very ready to forward your wishes, although it is not so easy a matter as it was a few years ago during the war time. I spoke to my friend Grummit, who has just commissioned the `Blaze-away, and he expressed his willingness to take you. I think I wrote to you, Mr Cheveley, on the subject." "That is the very matter on which I am anxious to consult you, Sir Reginald," said my father.
He fortunately, when going down to the Admiralty, met his friend Captain Grummit, who has lately been appointed to the `Blaze-away, man-of-war, and who expressed his willingness to receive on board his ship the son of any friend of his, but and here comes the rub Captain Grummit, he says, has made it a rule to take no midshipmen unless their parents consent to allow them fifty pounds a year, in addition to their pay.
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