human
I inquired what he meant, was first called a greenhorn for not knowing, and then had it explained to me.
gpt
Don't you know, said my instructor,
human
How are we to have white hammock-clothes, skysail masts, and all other finery, besides a coat of paint for the ship's sides every six weeks, if we don't expend all these things in action, and pretend they were lost overboard, or destroyed? The list of defects are given in to the admiral, he signs the demand, and the old commissioner must come down with the stores, whether he will or not. I was once in a sloop of war, when a large forty-four-gun frigate ran on board of us, carried away her jib-boom, and left her large fine-weather jib hanging on our foreyard. It was made of beautiful Russia duck, and, to be sure, didn't we make a gang of white hammock-cloths fore and aft, besides white trousers for the men? Well now, you must know, that we make _Uncle George_ suffer for the stores, so I mean to make dad suffer for my traps. I mean to lose my chest overboard, with all my `kit,' and return home to him and the old woman just fit for the fashion.
gpt
And do you really mean to deceive your father and mother in that way?
human
Do I? to be sure I do, you flat. How am I to keep up my stock, if I don't make the proper use of an action like this that we have been in?