16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
somer of Reade's age, who lived and messed
in the midshipmen's berth, fell through the skylight
into the cabin.
Reade had been deprived of youthful company
for a great while, and although he was
often invited to the gunroom and the cabin he
missed it sorely: at first Norton, though a great
big fellow for his age, had been too bashful to
be much of a companion in the berth, but
now that Arthur had been added to them his
shyness wore away entirely and the three
made enough noise for thirty, laughing and
hooting far into the night, playing cricket on
the 'tween-decks when the hammocks were
out of the way or football in the vacant larboard
berth when they were not; but this was
the first time they had ever hurled one of their
number into the cabin.
'Mr Grainger,' said Jack, when it had been
found that Wedell was not materially injured