Quotation from: Elsinore

Written by: Jack London


"Starve the dogs," he growls. "Starve 'm until they crawl aft and
lick our shoes. Maybe you think the custom of carrying the stores
aft just happened. Only it didn't. Before you and I were born it
was long-established and it was established on brass tacks. They
knew what they were about, the old cusses, when they put the grub in
the lazarette."


Louis says there is not more than three days' regular whack in the
galley; that the barrel of hard-tack in the forecastle will quickly
go; and that our chickens, which they stole last night from the top
of the 'midship-house, are equivalent to no more than an additional
day's supply. In short, at the outside limit, we are convinced the
men will be keen to talk surrender within the week.

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