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"Oh no! but I expect my uniforms I only wear these bottle-greens until they come." "And pray what ship are you going to join?" "The Die-a-maid Captain Thomas Kirkwall Savage." "The Diomede I say, Robinson, a'n't that the frigate in which the midshipmen had four dozen apiece for not having pipe-clayed their weekly accounts on the Saturday?"
The next day my chest arrived by the waggon, and I threw off my "bottle-greens" and put on my uniform. I had no cocked-hat, or dirk, as the warehouse people employed by Mr Handycock did not supply those articles, and it was arranged that I should procure them at Portsmouth.
"O no! but I expect my uniforms I only wear these bottle-greens until they come." "And pray what ship are you going to join?" "The Die-a-maid Captain Thomas Kirkwall Savage." "The Diomede I say, Robinson, a'n't that the frigate in which the midshipmen had four dozen apiece for not having pipe-clayed their weekly accounts on the Saturday?"
They then told me that they all belonged to the same ship that I did, and that they were glad to see that I could stand fire, for the captain was a terrible fellow for cutting-out and running under the enemy's batteries. The next day my chest arrived by the waggon, and I threw off my "bottle-greens" and put on my uniform.
Blue and scarlet, green and yellow, crimson and purple, orange and plum-color were the daily wear of the well-to-do; and even for the less wealthy there were the warm browns and murreys, the bottle-greens and clarets, and lavenders and buffs which made any crowd a thing to please a painter in the eighteenth century.
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