I don't know which is the worse of the two; if you go aft you hear the one, if you go forward you hear the other, by way of variety, and that, they say, is charming.

But, is it not shocking that such a beautiful frigate should be turned into a pig-sty, and that her main-deck should smell worse than a muckheap ?" "But how does his wife like the idea of living only upon hog's flesh ?" "She! Lord bless you, Peter! why, she looks as spare as a shark, and she has just the appetite of one, for she'll _bolt_ a four-pound piece of pork before it's well put on her plate." "Have you any more such pleasant intelligence to communicate, O'Brien ?" "No, Peter; you have the worst of it.

The lieutenants are good officers and pleasant messmates: the doctor is a little queer, and the purser thinks himself a wag; the master, an old north-countryman, who knows his duty, and takes his glass of grog.

The midshipmen are a very genteel set of young men, and full of fun and frolic.

I'll bet a wager there'll be a bobbery in the pig-sty before long, for they are ripe for mischief.