Jack's flowered silk dressing gown

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The bell struck; and at the pipe of the bosun's call the hammocks came flying up, close on two hundred of them, to be stowed with lightning rapidity into the nettings, with their numbers all turned the same way; and in the rushing current of seamen Jack stood tall and magnificent in a flowered silk dressing-gown, looking sharply up and down the deck.

Chapter Five
HMS Surprise

Comments

Re: Dressing Gown

[feroxargentea]

It may not be genteel to mention it but *whispers* there is a shiny patch on your breeches where your sausage has oozed grease...

Re: Dressing Gown

[heather_mist]

*g*
I hate it when it does that....