StNicholas [serial] . THREE YEARS BEHIND THE GUNS THE TRUE CHRONICLES OF A DIDDY-BOX BY L. G. T. Chapter IIwhat is it, my boys? A log is a thing you have to write on every dayyou live, or it ceases to be a log. See what amess I have made of it! But the old saw, Thereis nothing easier than rolling off a log, shows memy way out. I am just going to roll off the logright here on the spot, and write impressions andreminiscences just as they occur to me. If there is a day on board that a sailor can callhis own, it is Rope Yarn Sunday, which alwaysfalls on Wednesday. It is then he mends or putshis tr
StNicholas [serial] . THREE YEARS BEHIND THE GUNS THE TRUE CHRONICLES OF A DIDDY-BOX BY L. G. T. Chapter IIwhat is it, my boys? A log is a thing you have to write on every dayyou live, or it ceases to be a log. See what amess I have made of it! But the old saw, Thereis nothing easier than rolling off a log, shows memy way out. I am just going to roll off the logright here on the spot, and write impressions andreminiscences just as they occur to me. If there is a day on board that a sailor can callhis own, it is Rope Yarn Sunday, which alwaysfalls on Wednesday. It is then he mends or putshis traps in shipshape. What an odd picture thedeck presented to-day ! Half a dozen little hurdy-gurdy sewing-machines running, some cobbling,and all sorts of things which a fellow used tohave done, he must do for himself. It is a goodchance, when time permits, to write a letter home,and I noticed an old sailor: he had writtenU. S. F. S., when off came his cap, and, while heheld it in his left hand, scanning the band, heslo
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