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Considering, however, that the sailor goes to sea holding his life in his hands, I cannot but think that his mere occupation is perilous enough to satisfy the romantic demands of the shore-going dreamer. It is feigned that the sea-faring life is not one jot more dangerous than most of the laborious callings followed ashore. Let no man credit this.
Well just so or very like it the Melpomene's first lieutenant kept swinging and chafing on the quarter-deck all that afternoon or, to be precise, until six o'clock, when Captain Suckling came aboard in a shore-boat, and in his shore-going clothes. "Nothing of the sort, sir! It's the first " Captain Suckling checked himself.
He called upon that lawyer, and was astounded to hear that during his absence from England a fortune of £15,000 had been left to him by an aunt in Australia. Joe Westlake on this took a little house in the Stepney district, and endeavoured to settle down as an east-end gent; but his efforts to ride to a shore-going anchor were hopeless. His mind was always roaming.
This was the first time I had been on shore, except for a few days when the `Goliath' was paid off, during the whole of my life, and I did not find it very easy to get accustomed to the ways of shore-going people. At first I did not at all like them. There was no order or regularity, and I missed more than anything the sound of the bell striking the hours and half-hours day and night.
Every one set about telling wild tales of Egypt; and proceeded to walk more rapidly about the ship, collecting and putting in order shore-going clothes so that the quiet shipboard life was at an end. In the voyaging days of 1914 the New Zealand troops regarded their chances of actually joining in the campaign as being regrettably small.
When the knives, forks, and spoons came to be laid down, the storm seemed to lull, because these were comparatively light implements, so that this period which in shore-going life is usually found to be the exasperating one was actually a season of relief.
I had been in our cabin. A great bustle of shore-going, of leave-taking had sprung up all over the ship. Carlos and Castro had entered with a tall, immobile, gold-spectacled Spaniard, dressed all in white, and with a certain air of noticing and attentive deference, bowing a little as he entered the cabin in earnest conference with Tomas Castro.
The "Lancaster," a fine old frigate, the flagship of the commodore, had a fatherly air and seemed to say: "Be good and you will all have a chance." Once more we got our shore-going clothes ready, only to be disappointed, and again the promises made to us proved elusive.
Call me plain Peter, or Peter Poplar; we don't deal in misters aboard the Rainbow. It is all very well for shore-going people to call each other mister; or when you speak to an officer, just to show that he is an officer; but sharp's the word with us forward we haven't time for compliments." "But I thought you were an officer, Peter," said I. "You look like one."
Captain Samson was seated one fine summer evening in his shore-going cabin, that used to be the abode of fishy smells, marine-stores, Polly, and bliss, but which now presented an unfurnished and desolate aspect. He had just returned from a voyage. Little "kickshaws" for Polly lay on the table before him, and a small fire burned in the grate, with a huge kettle thereon.
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