drab-jackets

Updated: May 26, 2025

"Well, Sir, them colors as the ships show all mean something different; the red is from the floating powder-magazine, and the yellow is " "I said the green light," broke in Richard, with his usual impatience of prolixity. "What is that vessel there, I say?" "Oh, that's the convict ship, Sir; they say she is waiting until after the 'sizes, to take the drab-jackets to Portland."

James Payn - Bred in the Bone