[Blue Jackets by George Manville Fenn]@TWC D-Link bookBlue Jackets CHAPTER NINE 1/17
CHAPTER NINE. PREPARATIONS. "At last!" he cried.
"I began to think your eyelids were sewed up. Dress yourself, sir; do you hear? Do you suppose that the junior officers of the _Teaser_ are kept here on purpose to set a bad example to the men ?" "Breakfast ready ?" I said, yawning. "Of course it is, sir.
Kidneys and fried soles done to a shade.
Fresh water-cresses, hot rolls, and all kinds of don't-you-wish-you-may-get-'ems, waiting.
I say, look at old Tanner. Let's rouse him up." I rose slowly, and, with the customary malignity of one rudely wakened from sleep, began to feel a grim satisfaction in seeing my messmate robbed of his repose in turn. "Cold pig ?" suggested Smith. "No, no; don't," I said.
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