The wooden world dissected : in the character of a ship of war, as also, the characters of all the officers, from the captain to the common sailor / by the author of The London-spy.

  • Ned Ward
Date:
1779
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The wooden world dissected : in the character of a ship of war, as also, the characters of all the officers, from the captain to the common sailor / by the author of The London-spy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t 23) examine every hole he can find out, and then he marches off well fatisfied. In fine, he’s a perfe& hurricane ina little town, and drives the laggard dogs along the ftreets with as much noife and buittle, as butchers do fwine to Smithfield; nay, not only forces them to run a= gainft the ftream, but oft-times makes them tow aftern a heavy fly-boat of a wife, as far as from Tweed to Medway; and tho’ he really hurry men off againft their inclinations, he’s as far from be-~ ing a kidnapper as a hangman is from being a cut-throat. | | : In the days of Yore, he ufed to play the devil amongit the Newcaftle colliers, who oft-times, to fhun his threatening Scylla, have grounded their ‘veffels on Charibdis. But thofe that knew his trim, ufed to load him well with ale and falmon, the common way to fore-reach upon him ; but if he chanced to prove head-ftrong, that no liquor could overcome him, the laft remedy then was, to bring out fome yellow boys, which were of far more efteem with him than fo many fun-burnt failors. — ; Thus in one Northern trip, he would pick ye up a hundred or two of thefe little younkers, with which he could fight better than with fo many ftout tars in an engagement. 4 Having brought him back again among his bre- thren, let us now take him #0 de as good as the beft of them, and fo draw him in perfe¢tion. Tho’ he is an officer, he is a downright eye~ fervant, and is never fo active asin the prefence of his commander; he is then perpetually making incurfion into the boatf{wain’s province, and too often intrenches upon his proper duty; for he is a fmart fellow ata Ss and oft does he make the
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