STICKING TO HIS POST.
Orders are strictly obeyed in the Royal Navy, as most of us know. But the results are somewhat disconcerting to the civilian mind ■, as a young lady once discovered, much to her astonishment. The officers of a certain vessel were entertaining their friends with a grand lunch, and the attendants were some typical British tars. A young lady, wanting some bread, looked behind her chair at one of the sailors in waiting, and asked him to bring what she wanted ; but he drew himself up stiff and stern, and, to her amazement, replied—
“ Can’t do it, Miss ; I’m told off for taters.”
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 20, 12 August 1893, Page 6
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106STICKING TO HIS POST. Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 20, 12 August 1893, Page 6
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