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He was extended across the table, face downwards; the lapels of his coat thrown up, and two dozen blows, with the sleeve-board, were administered with such force, that his shrieks were even louder than the laughter and vociferation of his assailants.
On one side of the gun-room a party of fifteen or twenty were seated cross-legged on the deck in a circle, stripped to their shirts, with their handkerchiefs laid up like ropes in their hands. A great coat and a sleeve-board, which they had borrowed from the marine tailor, who was working on the main-deck, lay in the centre, and they pretended to be at work with their needles on the coat.
"Gentlemen, we have paid our mess-money, and we have nothing to eat. We have asked for the accounts, and we are put off with `indisposition. Now, gentlemen, as there can be no doubt of the caterer's honour, I propose that we give him a receipt in full." "And here's a pen to write it with," cried out another, holding up the sleeve-board, with which they had been playing the game.
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