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TEETOTAL SAILORS RECEIVING CASH INSTEAD OF RUM.
The bugle-call, which is unknown even to army men, is given on the previous page.
Each man above the age of eighteen is allowed half a pint of grog, usually mixed in the proportion of one part of rum to three of water, and hence familiarly termed "three water"; and the number of half-pints due to each mess is served out to the cook of that mess for the day. The cooks stand à queue in the numerical order of their messes, the mess whose turn it is to pump the grog-water for that day (the messes take daily turns at so doing, petty officers' mess excepted) standing first "on tally," and the grog is served out by a petty officer and the Marine sergeant of the guard, under the supervision of a warrant officer and the ship's steward, who, book in hand, checks off the number of pints allotted to each cook.
The grog-tub is usually decorated with some loyal motto worked in brass, a first favourite being "The Queen, God bless Her."
A large proportion of men, thanks to the praiseworthy exertions of that true friend of Naval mankind, Miss Agnes Weston, are teetotalers; and these men, together with the boys under 18, are allowed money instead of rum at the rate of one penny one day and three farthings the next alternately. This is paid them once a quarter (monthly in harbour ships) by the paymaster in exactly the same manner in which the entire ship's company receive their ordinary pay.
The dinner-hour, too, is a convenient time for the sale of dead or "run" men's effects.
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AN AUCTION—SELLING A DESERTER'S CLOTHES.