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Updated: June 28, 2025
For several days previous to the advent of the holiday, frequent conferences were held on the gun-deck touching the melancholy prospects before the ship. "Too bad too bad!" cried a top-man, "Think of it, shipmates a Fourth of July without grog!" "I'll hoist the Commodore's pennant at half-mast that day," sighed the signal-quarter-master.
The half-deck was set apart for the theatre, and the signal-quarter-master was commanded to loan his flags to decorate it in the most patriotic style. As the stage-struck portion of the crew had frequently during the cruise rehearsed portions of various plays, to while away the tedium of the night-watches, they needed no long time now to perfect themselves in their parts.
She glided under our stern, within hailing distance, and the signal-quarter-master ran up our ensign to the gaff. "Ship ahoy!" cried the Lieutenant of the Watch, through his trumpet. "Halloa!" bawled an old fellow in a green jacket, clap-ping one hand to his mouth, while he held on with the other to the mizzen-shrouds. "What ship's that?"
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