troningsken

Updated: May 5, 2025

I said, the midshipmen had paid their crockery bill with the fore-topsail." "Ay! ay!" replied the captain, "that's much more likely." The captain changed the conversation by asking me whether I would take a slice of ham. "It's real Westphalia, Mr Simple; I have them sent me direct by Count Troningsken, an intimate friend of mine, who kills his own wild boars in the Hartz mountains."

Frederick Marryat - Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2

I said, the midshipmen had paid their crockery bill with the fore-topsail." "Ay, ay," replied the captain, "that's much more likely." The captain changed the conversation by asking me whether I would take a slice of ham. "It's real Westphalia, Mr Simple; I have them sent me direct by Count Troningsken, an intimate friend of mine, who kills his own wild boars in the Hartz mountains."

Frederick Marryat - Peter Simple