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Updated: May 14, 2025
Neither he nor I alluded to the sound we had heard the night before; he boiled water and cleaned up the mess-kit, and I pottered about among the rocks for another ptarmigan. Wearying of this, presently, I returned to the mules and William, and sat down for a smoke. "It strikes me," I said, "that our instructions to 'await further orders' are idiotic. How are we to receive 'further orders' here?"
You don't care the leavings in a Dago's mess-kit for any ship you work in, if you can get a bit out of her and skip early." "That's me, Uncle," muttered the stoker. "Can you remember names, like some of us remember the Mermus, the Blackadder, and the Titania? Not you. Your ships haven't got names, properly speaking.
Gavriushka the Bullet was already running with a half-gallon bottle to the pot-house and was singing as he went the soldiers' signal for dinner: "Drag spoon and mess-kit out, If there's no bread, eat without." A bare-footed urchin, dirty and so ragged that there was more of his bare body than clothes upon him, ran up to the gang.
Get a sailor of the old school to relay the coils before you go into the field so that the rope will be ready for use. Five eighths to seven eighths inch diameter is large enough. A few balls of marline come in conveniently as also does heavy linen fish-line. A small-sized duffel-bag should be provided for each of the men as a container for hammock and net, spare clothing, and mess-kit.
The cook fills his arms with the mess-kit, and jumping into a boat, stumbles and falls, and away go our cooking utensils into the river. Our plates are gone; our spoons are gone; our knives and forks are gone. "Water catch 'em; h-e-a-p catch 'em." When on the boats, the men are compelled to cut loose, as the flames, running out on the overhanging willows, are scorching them.
So the children were left in the care of old Nurse, who lived in Fitzroy Street, near the British Museum, and though she was always very kind to them, and indeed spoiled them far more than would be good for the most grown-up of us, the four children felt perfectly wretched, and when the cab had driven off with Father and all his boxes and guns and the sheepskin, with blankets and the aluminium mess-kit inside it, the stoutest heart quailed, and the girls broke down altogether, and sobbed in each other's arms, while the boys each looked out of one of the long gloomy windows of the parlour, and tried to pretend that no boy would be such a muff as to cry.
Each man's mess-kit should be numbered to correspond with the number on his duffel-bag. The necessary large spoons and forks for the cook, a small meat grinder, and a half dozen skinning knives could all be included in the fibre case. These outfits are usually sold with the cups, plates, etc., for the table. As before suggested, each member of the party should have his own mess-kit.
"There's a reconnoitrin' squad up the line; they'll give you somethin'.... How's things goin' up that way?" The man pointed up the road. "Gawd, Ah doan know. Ah ain't had nothin' to eat fur a day and a half." The warm smell of a stew rose to his nostrils from the mess-kit.
Still the apartment, though compact as an army mess-kit, was perfectly furnished and the maid who had served the cool little dinner an efficient effacedness of the race that housekeepers with large families and little money assert passed with the Spanish War. Money enough, and the knowledge of how to use it without blatancy or pinching that would have been the second conclusion.
When I arrive they have landed. Then we all go back to the late camp to see if anything left behind can be saved. Some of the clothing and bedding taken out of the boats is found, also a few tin cups, basins, and a camp kettle; and this is all the mess-kit we now have. Yet we do just as well as ever. June 17. We run down to the mouth of Yampa River.
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