In spite of these admittedly difficult factors, I have the temerity20 to attempt the setting forth21 of certain phases of nautical life experienced by myself which have always appeared to me to bring into close contact two such widely differing spheres of existence as country life and sea life, principally in the management of farmyard animals at sea. Sailors are proverbially handy at most things, if their methods are unconventional, and I venture to hope that country readers will at least be amused by Jack’s antics when dealing22 with the familiar creatures of the countryside.
With that wonderful adaptability23 to circumstances which, while pre-eminently characteristic of mankind, is also a notable quality of domesticated24 animals, they soon recover from their stupor25 and malaise, arrange their locomotive powers to suit the mutations of their unsteady home, and learn (perhaps soonest of all) to[112] distinguish the very number of strokes upon the ship’s bell which announces the arrival of feeding-time. No doubt the attentions of the sailors have much to do with the rapidity of acclimatisation (if the term may be so employed) manifested by most of the animals, since sailors have justly earned a high reputation for taming and educating creatures of even the most ferocious26 and intractable dispositions27. Nevertheless, this result is attained28 by some of the queerest and most ludicrous means (to a countryman) imaginable. But what does that matter, since the conditions of their existence then become, for the seaworthy animals, not only pleasant but undoubtedly29 profitable to their owners. And where they are presently allowed the run of the ship much fun ensues, fun, moreover, that has no parallel in country life as ordinarily understood. Perhaps my experiences have been more favourably30 enlarged than falls to the lot of most seafarers, for I have been in several ships where the live-stock were allowed free warren; and although the system had many inconveniences and entailed31 a great deal of extra labour upon the crew, there were also many compensations. But, like all things pertaining32 to the sea, the practice of carrying live-stock has been replaced by more modern methods. The custom of carrying fresh meat in refrigerators is rapidly gaining ground, and, in consequence, latter-day seamen33 find fewer and fewer opportunities for educating in seafaring behaviour the usual farmyard animals that supply us with food. By few seamen will this be regarded as a misfortune, since they find their labour quite sufficiently34 onerous35 without the inevitable36 and disagreeable concomitants of carrying live-stock.
By far the largest portion of my experience of farmyard operations on board ship has been connected with pigs. These profitable animals have always been noted38 for their adaptability to sea life, and I fully39 believe, what I have often heard asserted, that no pork is so delicious as that which has been reared on board ship. Be that as it may, pigs of every nation under heaven where swine are to be found have been shipmates with me, and a complete study of all their varied40 characteristics and their behaviour under all sea circumstances would occupy a far greater number of pages than I am ever likely to be able or willing to give. Already I have endeavoured to set forth, in a former article, a sketch41 of the brilliant, if erratic42, career of one piggy shipmate whose life was full of interest and his death a blaze of lurid43 glory. But he was in nowise the most important member of our large and assorted44 collection of grunters in that ship. Our Scotch45 skipper was an enthusiastic farmer during the brief periods he spent at Cellardyke between his voyages to the East Indies, and consequently it was not strange that he should devote a portion of his ample leisure to pig-breeding when at sea. For some reason, probably economical, we carried no fowls46 or other animals destined47 for our meat, with the exception of the pigs, two large retriever dogs and two cats making up the total of our animal passengers, unless a large and active colony of rats that inhabited the recesses48 of the hold be taken into account. The day before sailing from[114] Liverpool a handsome young pair of porkers, boar and sow, were borne on board in one sack by the seller, making the welkin ring with their shrill49 protests. We already possessed50 a middle-aged51 black sow of Madras origin, whose temper was perfectly52 savage53 and unappeasable; in fact, she was the only animal I ever saw on board ship that could not be tamed. The first few days of our passage being stormy, the two young pigs suffered greatly from sea-sickness, and in their helpless, enfeebled state endured many things from the wrathful, long-snouted old Madrassee, who seemed to regard them both with peculiar55 aversion. She ate all their grub as well as her own, although, like the lean kine of Scripture56, she was nothing benefited thereby57. But the sailors, finding the youngsters amicably58 disposed, began to pet them, and in all possible ways to protect them from ill-usage not only by the savage Indian but by the black retriever Sailor, who had taken up his quarters in the fo’c’s’le and became furiously jealous of any attention shown to the pigs by his many masters. It should be noted that, contrary to the usual practice, those pigs had no settled abiding-place. At night they slept in some darksome corner beneath the top-gallant forecastle, wherever they could find a dry spot, but by day they roamed the deck whithersoever they listed, often getting as far aft as the sacred precincts of the quarter-deck, until Neptune59, the brown retriever that guarded the after-end of the ship, espied60 them, and, leaping upon them, towed them forrard at full gallop61 by the ears, amid a hurly-burly of eldritch shrieks62 and rattling63 hoofs64. I am not at all sure that the frolicsome65 young things did not enjoy these squally interludes in their otherwise peaceful lives. Certainly they often seemed to court rather than to avoid the dog’s onslaught, and would dodge66 him round the after-hatch for all the world like London Arabs guying a policeman. The only bitter drop in their brimming cup of delights came with distressing67 regularity68 each morning. As soon as the wash-deck tub was hauled forrard and the fore9 part of the ship was invaded by the barefooted scrubbers and water-slingers, two hands would grope beneath the fo’c’s’le, where, squeezed into the smallest imaginable space, Denis and Jenny were, or pretended to be, sleeping the dreamless slumbers69 of youthful innocence70. Ruthlessly they were seized and hauled on deck, their frantic71 lamentations lacerating the bright air, and evoking72 fragments of the commination service from the disturbed watch below. While one man held each of them down, others scrubbed them vigorously, pouring a whole flood of sparkling brine over them meanwhile, until they were as rosy73 and sweet as any cherub74 of the nursery after its bath. This treatment, so mournfully and regularly resented by them, was doubtless one reason why they throve so amazingly, although the liberal rations37 of sea-biscuit and peasoup supplied to them probably suited them as well as any highly-advertised and costly75 provender76 would have done. Their tameness was wonderful and withal somewhat embarrassing, for it was no uncommon77 thing for them to slip into the men’s house unseen during the absence of the crew, and, climbing into a lower bunk78, nestle cosily[116] down into the unfortunate owner’s blankets and snore peacefully until forcibly ejected by the wrathful lessee79.
Our passage was long, very long, so that the old black sow littered off the Cape80 of Good Hope, choosing, with her usual saturnine81 perversity82, a night when a howling gale83 was blowing, and destroying all her hapless offspring but one in her furious resentment84 at the whole thing. Jenny, like the amiable85 creature she always was, delayed her offering until we were lying peaceably in Bombay Harbour. There she placidly86 produced thirteen chubby87 little sucklings and reared every one of them. They were a never-failing source of amusement to the men, who, in the dog-watches, would sit for hours with pipes aglow88 sedately89 enjoying the screamingly-funny antics of the merry band. There is much controversy90 as to which of all tame animals are the most genuinely frolicsome in their youth, kittens, lambs, calves91, pups, and colts all having their adherents92; but I unhesitatingly give my vote for piglings, especially when they are systematically93 petted and encouraged in all their antics as were that happy family of ours. Generally, the fat and lazy parents passed the time of these evening gambols94 in poking95 about among the men, begging for stray midshipmen’s nuts (broken biscuit), or asking in well-understood pig-talk to be scratched behind their ears or along their bristly spines96, but occasionally, as if unable to restrain themselves any longer, they would suddenly join their gyrating family, their elephantine gambols among the frisky97 youngsters causing roars of laughter. Usually they wound up the revels98 by a grand galop furieux aft of the whole troop squealing99 and grunting100 fortissimo, and returning accompanied by the two dogs in a hideous101 uproar102 of barks, growls103, and squeals104.
Our stay on the coast was sufficiently prolonged to admit of another litter being produced in Bimlia-patam, twelve more piglets being added to our already sizeable herd105 of seventeen. So far, these farming matters had met with the unqualified approval of all hands except the unfortunate boys who had to do the scavenging, but upon quitting the Coromandel coast for the homeward passage, the exceeding cheapness of live-stock tempted106 our prudent107 skipper to invest in a large number of fowls and ducks. Besides these, he bought a couple of milch goats, with some wild idea of milking them, while various members of the crew had gotten monkeys, musk-deer, and parrots. It needed no special gift of prescience to foresee serious trouble presently, for there was not a single coop or house of any kind on board for any of the motley crowd. As each crate108 of cackling birds was lowered on deck it was turned out, and by the time the last of the new-comers were free, never did a ship’s decks look more like a “barton” than ours. Forty or fifty cockfights were proceeding109 in as many corners, aided and abetted110, I grieve to say, by the sailors, who did all they could to encourage the pugnacity111 of the fowls, although they were already as quarrelsome a lot as you would easily get together. The goats were right at home at once; in fact goats are, I believe, the single exception to the general rule of the discomfort112 of animals[118] when first they are brought on shipboard. The newcomers quietly browsed113 around, sampling everything they could get a purchase on with their teeth, and apparently114 finding all good alike. Especially did they favour the ends of the running gear. Now if there is one thing more than another that is sharply looked after at sea, it is the “whipping” or securing of ropes-ends to prevent them fraying115 out. But it was suddenly discovered that our ropes-ends needed continual attention, some of them being always found with disreputable tassels116 hanging to them. And when the mates realised that the goats apparently preferred a bit of tarry rope before anything else, their wrath54 was too great for words, and they meditated117 a terrible revenge. Another peculiarity118 of these strange-eyed animals was that they liked tobacco, and would eat a great deal of it, especially in the form of used-up quids. This peculiar taste in feeding had unexpected results. As before said, the raison d’être of the goats was milk, and after sundry119 ineffectual struggles the steward120 managed to extract a cupful from the unworthy pair. It was placed upon the cabin table with an air of triumph, and the eyes of the captain’s wife positively121 beamed when she saw it. Solemnly it was handed round, and poured into the coffee as if it had been a libation to a tutelary122 deity123, but somebody soon raised a complaint that the coffee was not up to concert pitch by a considerable majority. A process of exhaustive reasoning led to the milk being tasted by the captain, who immediately spat125 it out with much violence, ejaculating, “Why, the dam’ stuff’s pwushioned!” The steward, all pale and agitated126, looked on dumbly, until in answer[119] to the old man’s furious questions he falteringly127 denied all knowledge of any felonious addition to the milk. The storm that was raised by the affair was a serious one, and for a while things looked really awkward for the steward. Fortunately the mate had the common-sense to suggest that the malignant128 goat should be tapped once more, and the immediate124 result tasted. This was done, and the poor steward triumphantly129 vindicated130. Then it was unanimously admitted that tarry hemp131, painted canvas, and plug tobacco were not calculated to produce milk of a flavour that would be fancied by ordinary people.
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