Here is the beginning of Chapter One:
As much as he wanted to, Roger couldn’t keep it in any longer. It exploded from him, splashing out onto everyone who was present. Red-faced and breathing heavily from his outburst of excitement, he shook the Captain’s hand until it became limp.
‘I’m so glad so see all the seamen here,’ he exclaimed, ‘as I accept the offer of a free cruise along the narrow passage of the South!’
‘And we’re very glad to have you!’ ejaculated the Captain. ‘But you will have to work to support the cost of your new habitat. From now on, you will be known as ‘Roger, the cabin boy’!’
The seamen dripped away after this awful, humourless pun – they didn’t want to test his joke book any more than they wanted tossed salad for dinner.
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