Quotation from: Elsinore

Written by: Jack London


And this is mutiny on the high seas! Almost every hour of my deck-
watches I listen to this infernal din, and am maddened into desire to
join with Mr. Pike in a night attack and put these rebellious and
inharmonious slaves to work.


Yet they are not entirely inharmonious. Guido Bombini has a
respectable though untrained tenor voice, and has surprised me by a
variety of selections, not only from Verdi, but from Wagner and
Massenet. Bert Rhine and his crowd are full of rag-time junk, and
one phrase that has caught the fancy of all hands, and which they
roar out at all times, is: "IT'S A BEAR! IT'S A BEAR! IT'S A
BEAR!" This morning Nancy, evidently very strongly urged, gave a
doleful rendering of Flying Cloud. Yes, and in the second dog-watch
last evening our three topaz-eyed dreamers sang some folk-song
strangely sweet and sad.

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