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retriever, gordon-setter, and other ancestors. Though 
physically weak it is intellectually a giant. Forty-five 
able-bodied seamen and boys have devoted themselves to 
her education, so what she does not know of ship's life is 
not worth mentioning. I am afraid, however, her morals 
are lax. Yesterday I saw her with her head in a beef tin 
which I am sure did not belong to her mess. She had 
apparently got into the tin leisurely and wanted to get 
out in a hurry. After running round the fore-deck back- 
wards she succeeded in this and went off on another 
foray ; then she found the Spectioneer's tin of marmalade 
open, and puppy-like plunged her head in and lapped it 
up, till fate, in the form of a sea-boot, caught her in the 
ribs ; she scratched her nose on the ragged tin as she 
