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Updated: June 20, 2025
And they sailed many days as in a floating hell, hot, miserable, and cursing; the scanty meal was flung to them like dog's-meat, and they lapped the putrid water from a pail; gang by gang for an hour they might pace the smoking deck, and then and thence were driven down to fester in the hold for three-and-twenty more. O, those closed hatches by night! what torments were the kernel of that ship!
I'd sooner die at once, than be made dog's-meat of in this here way." "Silence, you mutinous rascal, or I'll put you in irons." "I wish you would irons don't bite, if they hold fast. I'll run away I don't mind being hung that I don't starved to death, bitten to death in this here way " "Silence, sir. It's over-feeding that makes you saucy."
Joe, the dog's-meat man, had indeed got into society entirely from a knack of saying impertinent things to everybody; and the smartest exclusives of the place, who seldom visited any one where there was not a silver teapot, used to think Joe had a great deal in him because he trundled his cart with his head in the air, and one day gave the very beadle of the parish "the cut direct."
Graves, when I had shut the door, "where's the dog's-meat man?" "Up-stairs." "Bring him quietly." I called Mr. Holcombe, and he came eagerly, note-book and all. "Ah!" he said, when he saw Tim. "So you've turned up!" "Yes, sir." "It seems, Mr. Dog's Mr. Holcombe," said Mr. Graves, "that you are right, partly, anyhow. Tim here did help a man with a boat that night "
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