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The desk is covered over with a signal-flag, as well as the hassock for the chaplain to kneel upon, which is usually a grape or canister shot-box, surmounted by a cheese of great-gun wads, to make it soft. All this implies that the weather is fine, the awnings spread overhead, and the curtains stretched fore and aft, to keep out the heat and glare.
At the most unseasonable hours, you would behold him, seated apart, in some corner among the guns a shot-box before him, pen in hand, and eyes "in a fine frenzy rolling." "What's that 'ere born nat'ral about?" "He's got a fit, hain't he?" were exclamations often made by the less learned of his shipmates.
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