YA - Chapter Five - other characters

[ylla]

Some were racing, some were merely having fun, moving with wonderful ease and certainty. The midshipmen on the other hand - using the term in its widest sense from master's mate right down to first class volunteer: the 'young gentlemen' as a whole - kept to the starboard side, either on the quarterdeck itself, which was their right, or along the

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[esteven]

Oh dear, skylarking again! It had been given as a cause of death more than once in the Naval Chronicles.

Geoghegan, such a promising middie, one that Jack also cared about. Jack picked the boy up and carried him into the great cabin, tears running down his face.

[alltoseek]

Didn't even make it out of the chapter *shakes head sadly*

Although he wasn't that promising a seaman - never could coil down a rope like a Christian...

A very promising oboe, though D:

[esteven]

Happens!
You always have tomorrow to read and comment. ;D

[alltoseek]

I meant the boy didn't make it out. Introduced and killed off all in one :(

[esteven]

It is always difficult for any middie to be introduced so favourably. They are never issued with red undershirts.

But in those few lines we had of him, he showed great promise.

[sidlj]

He might have lived if he hadn't eaten eleven potatoes washed down with sherry, claret and port. *sighs*

[esteven]

*sighs*
Unfortunately middies are always hungry and do not believe that it is not a good idea to exert themselves so much shortly after a meal.

[sidlj]

*squints* Borderline mad, maybe, at the most!

[esteven]

For once I agree (because otherwise I think Health and Safety are run mad most of the time)

[esteven]

You mean, HandS lets you climb around without a safety-harness?
*is aghast*

[esteven]

*runs to find and send as many cushions as possible*

[esteven]

You fell in Edinburgh? I did not know. When did that happen?