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Show JACKY ON SHIPBOARD. Bed "Which Is Provided by a Paternal Government. Jacky's bed is a hammock, and it 18 a folding, portable bed of the most Improved Im-proved kind, says Scribner's. People who swing hammocks on verandas in the summer know nothing whatever about Jacky's style of bed. His Is made of an oblong piece of stout canvas, can-vas, fitted with eye-holes in the ends. In the eye-holes are made fast small ropes, called "clews," and these are lashed at their outer ends to a ring. When Jacky's folding bed is open for use It hangs by these rings from hammock-hooks fitted to the beams under the decks. Jacky has a mattress and a blanket in his bed, and he has to keep them there. When he "turns out," as getting get-ting up is called, he rolls his hammock up on its longest axis and lashes it with a rope provided for that purpose, There must be seven turns in the lashing, lash-ing, with one exactly in the middle. The clews are tucked in under the lashing, lash-ing, Jacky Is allowed ten minutes to turn out and lash his hammock. Then he goes up on the spar deck and hands the hammock to one of the stowers, who drops it into the nettings. The "nettings" are simply troughs in the ship's rail. A tarpaulin Is hauled over the hammocks and laced down to keep the rain out, and there they stay till they are served out again nt night. In the meantime, if Jacky desires to sloep, and in war times he docs very often need a nap, ho must perforce seek the gentle caresses of a steel battlchatch or an oily alloy-way, whero cooks and mnrines do break in and coa'-pnssera corrupt. Hut a paternal government I provides tho hummock for .lucky ami ' also allows him the use of the deck. |