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Updated: October 6, 2026
An' durin' the Retreat, when, as you knows, cigarettes in the Expeditionary Force was scarcer'n snowballs in 'ell, ole Pint-o'-Bass managed to carry on, an' wasn't never seen without 'is fag, excep' at meal-times, an' sleep-times, an' they bein' so infrequent an' sketchy-like, them days, wasn't 'ardly worth countin'. 'Twas like this, see, that 'e managed it.
The patriarch told Stern, when he brought the grapple to the hut followed by a silent, all-observant crowd that sometimes these torrential downpours lasted from three to ten sleep-times, with lulls between. "And nobody can venture on the sea," he added, "till we know by certain signs we have that the great rain is verily at an end.