StNicholas [serial] . first class. This wasa most unusual thing to do, for ship conduct israted in classes. These are: A Star Class: That means anything you askfor; but you have to grow wings before you canget into it. First Class entitles you to draw all your payevery month, and to enjoy all the shore-leaveyour watch is entitled to. The Second Class draw half-pay, and are re-stricted to the ship for twenty-two days. The Third Class get shore-leave only everyforty-five days and draw one third their pay. The Fourth Class means on the ship for three months with only one quarter of your pay, whic
StNicholas [serial] . first class. This wasa most unusual thing to do, for ship conduct israted in classes. These are: A Star Class: That means anything you askfor; but you have to grow wings before you canget into it. First Class entitles you to draw all your payevery month, and to enjoy all the shore-leaveyour watch is entitled to. The Second Class draw half-pay, and are re-stricted to the ship for twenty-two days. The Third Class get shore-leave only everyforty-five days and draw one third their pay. The Fourth Class means on the ship for three months with only one quarter of your pay, whichbarely covers mess money and tobacco. Everyman on ship must go ashore at least once in threemonths. When you have served your time in the fourthclass, you do not jump to the first, but, by slowdegrees, back through the intervening classes;thus, if ever you get back to Class One, you willhave spent 157 days in accomplishing it. Arriving on the third (a date with an odd num-ber) gave the starboard <>. BICYCLING NYOKOHAMA. watch first leave. Thatmeant me, too, andthree whole days onterra firma ! Landed at the Eng-lish hataba. Walk-ing up the steps andthrough the custom-house yard unques-tioned, we found rick-shaws as numerousas boats in the bay;and need I note weeach got into one ?Hastening to the ex-change, we doubledour coin, and pro-ceeded without delayto do Japan. Thefirst day we stuck to the baby carts, or jinrikishas,completely surrendering ourselves to the little,brown, two-legged human horses. We wandered all over Yokohama and into theonly part of the town that has escaped Europeaninfluence. The sights one sees here have been sooften and so well described that I may omit them;but after my first day ashore, with head achingfrom the incessant rasping ting-a-ling they callmusic, I sought the barracks of the SalvationArmy. And right here is a fine place for me towrite my first eulogy. At home I had often heard that the SalvationArmy was doing good work, but I had never
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