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Updated: May 16, 2025
Every terse, burning word is engraved on my memory, though fifty years have passed since they were spoken. Just as he had finished, the mess caterer touched my elbow and whispered: "Better get your lunch now, Mr. Ramsay. It will be your last chance. The galley-fires must be put out when the magazines are opened."
Whether he 'wept crocodile tears' besides, the doctor could not discover; but it was at least clear, that if swans sing before they die, alligators do so likewise: for the poor thing was dead next morning. It was time, after this, to stow the pets warm between decks, and as near the galley-fires as they could be put.
They are very grand to read of in books, and when you have got a stout ship and plenty of sea room there is no need to be afraid; but when you are wet through for a week at a spell, and the galley-fires can't be kept going, there is very little comfort in it." The wind changed next day to the west, and by evening was blowing hard.
Next morning we found that a sea had walked in over the bridge, breaking it, and washing off it the first officer and the look-out man luckily they fell into a sail and not overboard; put out the galley-fires, so that we got a cold breakfast; and eased the ship; for the shock turned the indicator in the engine-room to 'Ease her. The engineer, thinking that the captain had given the order, obeyed it.
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