From Forecastle to Academy Sailor And Artist Autobiography
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For this reason, we preferred the top, where, with the aforesaid precautions, we could lie snug and dry. On very dark nights we would hanker after the pipe, that being the only thing that could add to the enjoyment of our life up there; and, as I was the most inveterate smoker, I generally had to go down and steal fire from the lantern at the scuttle-but on the bowsprit end under the forecastle. True, there was a marine on guard there, but he wasn't always wide awake, or his attention was calle...d to somebody else for a moment, while the glass slide of the big lantern was lifted, the fuse applied, and pocketed, to be carried up into the top at all risks. Many a time has my pea-jacket pocket been afire when I got back into the top; but we never were caught at the business. I remember, even, on one occasion that one of the watch went down into the galley and stole a saucepan full of stew that was to be warmed up at breakfast time for the midshipmen's mess ; and that, after discussing its contents, we threw the pan overboard.
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