Eureka Reporter | 1907-05-03 | Page 4 | Roared His Gentle Rebuke

ROARED HIS GENTLE REBUKE mates mate wrath found vent in peculiar form of reproach rear admiral mead who has just been retired was talking one night at a dinner in portsmouth about the power of discipline in my youth he said I 1 knew a first mate in the merchant service who though an excellent officer wag was dreadfully profane when an thing went wrong he would volley forth oaths and curses in a shocking way once though he shipped with a very verr strict religious captain and the first time this captain chanced to witness one of the mate mates s swearing bouts he gave the young man a good dressing down you are a first rate officer he ended but remember no more swear ing not another oath aboard roy my ship well the mate bore the captain captains a warning in mind then one afternoon it happened that the boatswain made an inexcusable error in carrying out an order when the boatswain con fessel the fault he had committed the mate turned red with rage lie opened his mouth everybody looked at him expectantly waiting to hear some remarkable oaths but lust just thea then the captain hove in sight the mate seeing the captain remembered remember eg his orders about profanity but his hid rage had to have a vent of some sort and striding up close to the culprit he roared in the man mans s face you baugh ty naughty boatswain