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Updated: June 24, 2025
"Isn't it strange," said Boston, as he tasted the contents of the can, "that this stuff should keep so long?" "Not at all. It was cooked thoroughly by the heat, and then frozen. If your barrels haven't burst from the expansion of the brine under the heat or cold, you'll find the meat just as good." "But rather salty, if I'm a judge of salt-horse. Now, where's the sail-locker?
And say, fellows, won't we forget for a few hours at least that such things as reveille and scrub and wash clothes and coal humping and salt-horse exist on earth?" "Oh, good Mr. Captain, how long will it be before we hear the welcome call, 'Shift into clean blue, the liberty party! and find ourselves piling over the side," groaned "Hay."
Those glorious bunches of bananas which once decorated our stern and quarter-deck, have, alas, disappeared! and the delicious oranges which hung suspended from our tops and stays—they, too, are gone! Yes, they are all departed, and there is nothing left us but salt-horse and sea-biscuit.
Having a prisoner consigned to my tender mercy to be fed on the bread of affliction and waters of repentance until further orders, this same prisoner did at dead hour of night break from the guard-house and abscond to his quarters, did there fare sumptuously on hard-tack and salt-horse.
Years afterwards, when I had forgot all about him, I comes into Boston, mate of a ship, and was loafing around town with the second mate, and it so happened that we stepped into the Revere House, thinking maybe we would chance the salt-horse in that big diningroom for a flyer, as the boys say.
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