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Updated: May 14, 2025
This of course resulted, as was perhaps only natural, in a further accession of acerbity fore and aft, the brunt of which of course fell upon the hands forward, who what with drill of one sort and another, perpetual making and shortening of sail, shifting of spars and canvas, overhauling and setting-up of the rigging, lengthy, tedious, and wholly unnecessary boat expeditions, in addition to the incessant floggings and coltings already referred to at length found their lives a positive burden to them.
The first month was nothing but fighting and squabbling with my messmates; they called me a raw Irishman, and raw I was, sure enough, from the constant thrashings and coltings I received from those who were bigger and stronger than myself; but nothing lasts for ever as they discovered that whenever they found blows I could find back, they got tired of it, and left me and my brogue alone.
And my shirt all cut to pieces, too arn't it, White-Jacket? Damn me, but these coltings puts the tin in the Purser's pocket. O Lord! my back feels as if there was a red-hot gridiron lashed to it. But I told you so a widow's curse on him, say I he thought I meant him, and not Priming."
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