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Updated: May 22, 2025
"Mit apple tart and cream: the Messman can't be well. Pills says its squando-mania. No, I don't think I want to know any more. I suppose the log's written up?" "It is. Now for the boiled beef, and this afternoon Little Bright-eyes is going to get his head down and have a nice sleep." The speaker prepared to depart. "Hold on," said the Navigator. "I'm coming with you.
This occupied them all the morning. At noon a bell rang, which was the signal for all hands to knock off work and get their dinner, the messman of each gang going to the galley, a small building near the store, and drawing from the cook a sufficient quantity of food for the party to which he belonged.
"Then Bosh and I will go and ginger-up the Messman," said another, "and get a basket packed. What shall we have for tea?" "Sloe-gin," promptly responded a tall, pale Midshipman with a slightly freckled nose and sandy hair. "Sloe-gin and bangers. And get strawberry jam: see the Messman doesn't try and palm off any of his beastly gooseberry stuff like he did last time.
Such were among the occupants of the anteroom when Thorogood entered the crowded room and crossed over to the door leading to the Wardroom where the Marine waiters were laying the table. "Tell the Messman I've got a guest to dinner," said Thorogood to the Corporal of the Wardroom servants.
Bob, who with the carpenter had been duly liberated according to promise, cheerfully took upon himself the duties of messman for the party to which he belonged, and presenting himself with the others, he obtained without difficulty the wherewithal to set before our friends a very respectable meal.
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