donkeyvan

Updated: May 16, 2025

"I thought you'd manage to pull through, somehow or other; and you, too, young shaver you with that fine pair of flesh-coloured stockings on, I mean! I can't quite make out your name here from the writing. It looks like `Damerum, or `Dunekin, or `Donkeyvan, or something of that sort! What do you call yourself, my lad, when you're at home, eh?"

John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson - Young Tom Bowling: The Boys of the British Navy