hands it ended thus an so i got ten days in one o their fed me on grapes they did along with one o their own funny people them south americans oh we t killed any one we only through their for fun like fun v ve got all the fun we want growled a voice in the shadow a had risen silently as a seal for a breath of air and stood chest to the breeze the fleet lights s the matter with your said the marine you d better take your off them or you ll be spoke to our said the figure addressing his grievance to the sea line are stuck all about like a lot o women s pockets they re stuck about like a lot o that s what our are he slipped back into the darkness presently a by to relieve his mate on the bridge you ll be said the marine who was a wit and by the same token something of a prophet i a fleet in being not if you re anywhere in the crowd i won t was the retort always in a cautious don t are you ere never you mind you go on up to the an lofty bridge an your my i wouldn t be a not for ever so when i met my friend next morning his as over the aft neither he nor i recognised each other but i owe him some very nice tales and returning next day both were exercised at steam which is a noble game but i was too interested in the life of my own hour by hour to be interested in all i remember is that we were taking up positions at fifteen knots an hour amid a crowd of other all precisely alike all still as death each with a of white foam under her nose and returning the danced stately by themselves in another part of the deep we of the light horse did barn dances about the windy floors and precisely as couples in the ball room fling a word over their shoulders so we and our friends whirling past to take up fresh stations snapped out an sentence or two by means of our bridge are wondrous human in the afternoon the overtook us their white showing like as they the sea line then we our faces and the had l a fleet in being chap rest and at a wave of the admiral s flag off land s end our fleet was split in twain one half would go outside ireland with the weight of the atlantic en route to bay while we turned up the irish channel to there we would coal and wait for war after that it would be blind man s within a three hundred and fifty mile ring of the atlantic we of would try to catch the fleet which was supposed to have a of its own somewhere out at sea before it could return to the shelter of the bay the of the lower deck there was however one small flaw in the rules and as soon as they were in possession of the plan of campaign the of the lower deck put their on it � thus look ere their admiral as to go out from to some known only to ain t that so we ve all that this from an impertinent new to war a be ind im � most likely or � to bring im word of the outbreak of ain t that so get on what are you at you ll see when that im e as to back to from is precious to get ome again before we the beggar well i a fleet in being now i put it to you what s to prevent im out slow in order to be overtook by that an back quick to before we im i don t see that is rate is anywhere laid down you mark my word e ll take precious good care to be overtook by that of is we won t catch im there s an in the rules an e ll slip through know im if you don t the voice went on to describe im the admiral of our enemy � as a person who would make the sit up and truly it came out in the end that the other admiral had done almost exactly what his friends expected he went to his slowly was overtaken by his about a hundred miles from the turned back again to and having won the game of i wants a corner played about in front of the bay till we descended on him then he was as he could afford to be explained the situation and i presume smiled there was a hole in the rules and he sailed all his fleet through it we of the northern found in full possession of a sou west gale and an of dingy lying where they could most annoy the fleet a came alongside with donkey engines that would not lift more than half their proper load she had no bags no and her crazy boom could not be up enough to let the load clear our so we supplied our own bags and the boom put two of our own men on the io a fleet in being chap donkey engines and fell to work in that howling wind and wet a preparation for war as a preparation for war next day it seemed a little hard on the crew who worked like sailors � there is no stronger term from time to time a red eyed black demon with flashing teeth shot into the ward room for a bite and a drink cried out the number of tons aboard added a few pious words on the s and our like a lot of the had said and tore 