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Updated: June 15, 2025
At last the master, who was as even-tempered an officer as ever I sailed with, finds one day that his sextant case is all of a smudge: so being touched in a sore place, he gets into a great rage, and orders all the boys of the ship to catch the cat; and after much ado, the poor cat was catched, and brought aft into the gun-room. `Now, then, P , said the master to the first-lieutenant, `will you help kill the dirty beast? and the first-lieutenant, who cared more about his lower deck being clean than fifty human beings' lives, said he would; so they called the sargant o' marines, and orders him to bring up two ship's muskets and some ball cartridge, and they goes on deck with the cat in their arms.
She reiterated that she was indebted to me for the perfect safety of her house and property, and added, "You remember, when you were at our house on Cooper River in 1845, you gave me a book;" and she handed me the book in question, on the fly leaf of which was written: "To Miss Poyas, with the compliments of W. T. Sherman, First-lieutenant Third Artillery."
I need hardly apprise you of the dangerous character of the movement, but if you wish, you can, I suppose, turn over the command to your first-lieutenant. I was not, however, directed to authorize the substitution; it is merely a suggestion of my own, unofficially made." To this deadly insult Captain Madwell coolly replied: "Sir, I invite you to accompany the movement.
At them again, my Britons never mind," cried the first-lieutenant, leading on the men against the phalanx of bayonets.
It produced a more satisfactory result than the former ones; still, after another hour had passed, the water continued coming in faster than it could be pumped out. The commander and Colonel Morley were seen earnestly consulting together. They were joined by the first-lieutenant.
The other superior officers thought me a very good sort of fellow, and my messmates liked me, because I was always happy and cheerful and lent them money. And afterwards, when I got rid of this weakness, I always begged as many of them off from the infliction of the lash of Mr Farmer, the first-lieutenant, as I could.
"The wind is getting more round to the east. We'd better wear at once," said the pilot to the master. "The pilot advises us to wear," said the master to the captain. "Mr Farmer," said the captain to the first-lieutenant, "watch and idlers, wear ship." "Mr Rattlin," squeaked Mr Pond through his trumpet, "order the boatswain's mate to turn the watch and idlers up wear ship."
On the day before we sailed from Sheerness, the captain had an order conveyed to the first-lieutenant to send me away on duty immediately, for two or three hours.
And now he had been automatically taken from the state militia into the national army, where he made a most efficient officer, with a reputation as a strict disciplinarian. First-Lieutenant Olsen had been a dry goods clerk, who had gone into an officers' training-camp. As he hoped to rise in the world, he looked to his superiors always before he expressed an opinion.
Captain Bradshaw, having signed it, sent for the first-lieutenant, and delivered it himself into his hands. "Ferguson! Bradly!" cried the first-lieutenant, entering the gun-room, with the paper in his hand, "here's something for all three of us, a positive order to dine with the skipper every day, until he gets tired of our company." "I'll be hanged if I do," replied the surgeon.
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