Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-09-03


that when il is let 20 il should run with
out getting any kinks In IL, which IN
some cases might have rather disastrous
consequences.
Jack is then put to work at such
small Jobs as are necessary, so that his
htiu.e may be occupied until eight bells
's0'clock), when be once more goes be-
his breakfast and four hours
sa fair specimen OF the monot-
ne sailors life at sea. Except
changing OF the weather Occa-
ally and for a slight difference In
le work that has TO be done, one day
is exactly like another, with the same
faces around, the same outlook on the
broad ocean, the same food ia all things
with a sameness that is mOnOtOnous.
Jack Is nothing II not a grumbler, q
reDutation he has had In all ages.
Chronic complaining about everything
and everybody seems 70 DO his one great
amusement. OF course there is always
some ground for this, Take for in
Meanwhile at seven bells (7;3O) the
watch below has been called 10 get
breakfast. Jacks breakfast; even on
the best OF ships, is far from elaborate.
il generally consists or coffee, without
milk, ''hard tack" and scraps or meat
left sver from the previous days din
ner. Jack is now of duty until noon.
After be has had his breakfast he gen.
orally has some little ODDS and ends TO
do FOR himself, aud they keep him busy
till about 10 o'clock, when he turns In
and sleeps till 1870, his dinner hour.
At 70 he is on deck again Till o'clock.
The four hours time from P. m. 10 $
n m. is divided into two watches,
known as dog watches, though the
dog watch is always reckoned as the
watch from TO S.
When all the men are together they
GO In for their skylarSing, music and
dancing and for having a good time gen.
orally. This is the time when Jack Is
seen at his best, when he is cOngenial
and has not a word 10 say against any
body, not even the cook who may have
spoiled his dinner that dag.
The object Of this division is to make
an even number OF watches in the twen-
ty-four hours, so that there will be a
daily change; for example, the watch
that goes below one daJ at noon will the
next day come on deck at that hour.
ct $50 he has supper and az he Is on
(6uty once more. At he goes below 10
sleep till midnight, when be has again
TO be on duty until ( o'clock.
stance the question Of food. The "a
lions OF a sailor are shout as follows:
One pound of hard biscuit, - pounds
of salt beef, IL pounds Of salt pork, y
ounce OF coffee, s ounce Of tea and 3
quarts of water daily; = pound Of flour
made into bread, \ pint peas made into
SOM. three times week; y pint OF
rice and 70 ounces Of sugar weekly. In
MANY ships the odd quarter pound OF
, pork and half pound OF beef are kept
hack. and instead Jack gets one pound
az butter weekly. At dinner each day
the meat IS served, aud the meat used
for other meals what is left over from
dinner.
MANY peculiar dishes FOR supper are
made from the remnants Of dinner, the
chief being dogs body" and "scowse;
Dogs body is made as follows: JACK
has small canvas bag into which ne
nuts a few hard biscuits, goes out to
one OF the bits and pounds 1t with
mallet into powder. de then goes %
the cook and oOrroWS MS meae envy
per and chops up pice OF meat very
fue He mixes the biscuit and the
meat together with the addition OF
llttle butter aud seasoning, II he has IL,
,Dd nnts i* in a tin dish, taking IL TO
fthe cook, who puts it in the oven and
Z cooks il to a nice brown; which he wi
- with very great relish for his su
fs-is q savory dish.
IS made much more siTPiy.
IA broken Into smaliesleees
at IS cut into SIM Ss,
~ed ia tin W ~
u. and 0oi, e
q
ta dish OF
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