1 Thomas Mugridge is becoming unendurable.
2 Thomas Mugridge popped out of his galley like a jack-in-the-box.
3 "Mugridge, sir," he fawned, his effeminate features running into a greasy smile.
4 Hump," he said to me, elaborately polite, "kindly take Mr. Mugridge's arm and help him up on deck.
5 "Yes, sir;" and Thomas Mugridge fled swiftly aft and disappeared down another companion-way near the wheel.
6 Thomas Mugridge was beside himself, a blithering imbecile, so pleased was he at chumming thus with the captain.
7 I left Mr. Mugridge on deck, in the hands of a couple of grinning sailors who had been told off for the purpose.
8 Life in general might still be sacred, but life in the particular case of Thomas Mugridge had become very profane indeed.
9 He absurdly insisted upon my addressing him as Mr. Mugridge, and his behaviour and carriage were insufferable as he showed me my duties.
10 Thomas Mugridge, on the other hand, considered it a laughable affair, and was continually bobbing his head out the galley door to make jocose remarks.
11 The twelve o'clock dinner was over, one day, and I had just finished putting the cabin in order, when Wolf Larsen and Thomas Mugridge descended the companion stairs.
12 When it was over, and Mugridge was back in the galley, he became greasily radiant, and went about his work, humming coster songs in a nerve-racking and discordant falsetto.
13 While on the question of vagaries, I shall tell what befell Thomas Mugridge in the cabin, and at the same time complete an incident upon which I have already touched once or twice.
14 Thomas Mugridge routed me out at half-past five, much in the fashion that Bill Sykes must have routed out his dog; but Mr. Mugridge's brutality to me was paid back in kind and with interest.
15 Two or three times he put his head into the galley and chaffed Mugridge good-naturedly, and once, this afternoon, he stood by the break of the poop and chatted with him for fully fifteen minutes.
16 "Look sharp or you'll get doused," was Mr. Mugridge's parting injunction, as I left the galley with a big tea-pot in one hand, and in the hollow of the other arm several loaves of fresh-baked bread.
17 In the morning, Thomas Mugridge being duly bribed, the galley is pleasantly areek with the odour of their frying; while dolphin meat is served fore and aft on such occasions as Johnson catches the blazing beauties from the bowsprit end.
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