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Updated: May 16, 2025
Dat's whar I takin my lesson." "Sho, gen'l'muns! 'pears to me lak you don't nebber go on er deep-sea v'yge whar you gets de genuwine joe-flogger, an' de plum-duff, an' sich like," said Nimbus, the yacht's cook. "Ef you had, you wouldn' talk."
"Yes, by myself. I'd rather go alone. I don't intend to mind anything, and I'm goin' to tell her that she can stay there and spend Christmas, the place she lives in ain't no place to spend Christmas, and she can make the little gal have a good time, and go 'long just as we intended to go 'long plum-duff and mince-pie all the same.
"We've sometimes salt pork, and vegetables now and agin; and pea-soup, and plum-duff " "Plum-duff, Ailie," interrupted the captain, in order to explain, "is just a puddin' with few plums and fewer spices in it. Something like a white-painted cannon-shot, with brown spots on it here and there." "Is it good?" inquired Ailie.
On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, the so-called Banyan days of the service, when his hateful ration of meat was withheld and in its stead he regaled himself on plum-duff the "plums," according to an old regulation, "not worse than Malaga" he had a taste of it.
However, he ladled out an especially generous portion of plum-duff the climax of his culinary art and to his wrathful astonishment Hiram brought it back untasted. "Mebbe it's all right," he said, apologetically, "but he was filled full, and he said it was a new dish to him and didn't look very good, and " The Cap'n grabbed the disparaged plum-duff with an oath and started for the dining-room.
"What are you doing here, Manuel?" asked Ben. "I wait on the señoritas," he answered. "Take plum-duff?" Everybody laughed. "Do you like widows?" whispered Fanny at the back of my chair. I made a sign to her to attend to her business, but, as she suggested, looked at Alice. At that moment she and father were drinking wine together.
It was finally suggested that as the awning was stretched, the plum-duff could be served on deck better than below in the stuffy cabin, so here we enjoyed the meal. While we ate, Jackwell expanded more and more under the influence of duff and beer. He leaned back in his chair and gazed at the mainmast. "What makes the top of your mast so black, hey?
"Baked fish and roast venison," replied Pitts, "with plum-duff." "Very good," returned the captain. "We don't get so much breeze off here as we did yesterday, Louis." "It does not look at all rough off at sea," added the captain. "But when we get Cape Datu on the beam, we may feel it more."
They has their big coppers, and boils up their puddings by the 'undred; but I dare say there's no more need o' street-sellers, for folks go to shops for most things now. She's in Leather Lane, this cousin o' mine, and makes plum-duff as isn't to be beat; but she sells Saturday nights mostly, and for Sunday dinners.
They had all the blessings both of land and sea corned beef, salt pork, potatoes, plum-duff, tea, sugar, coffee, wine, beer, spirits, and tobacco from the cargo of the 'Clonmel', and oysters without end from a neighbouring lagoon.
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