Cock of the Walk.
A characteristic incident of Lord Charles Beresford is related by Success concerning his early career in the navy. Many yeara ago, when ho was but a middy on the Marlborougb, there was a ship's corporal, a big, bullying fellow, whose duty it was to awake the little middies every morning. On one occasion he did this so roughly as to overturn Lord Charles' hammock completely, and to upset him upon the floor. The boy sprang to his feet. " Now look here, Jam Smith," ho said, " you are a very big chap, and you can box a bit, aud bo you thiuk you're cock of the walk on this ship. Very well, you go up on dtck — no oue's about, aud we'll just have it out and settle once for all who really is cock of the ship." Aud so up on deck walked the big bully, a fall-grovrn man, and the little middy, and set to. Thote who witnessed the fight declare they never «aw a better mill in their live, but Jem Smith was no longer caok of the walk on board the Marlborough. ' • '
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Otago Witness, Issue 2179, 28 November 1895, Page 55
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189Cock of the Walk. Otago Witness, Issue 2179, 28 November 1895, Page 55
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