...allow a marine to do that. Jacky's ideas of those sea-soldiers are summed up in his old saying : " A messmate before a shipmate, a shipmate before a stranger, a stranger before a dog, and a dog before a marine." What does Jacky do when he desires a shave or a hair-cut ? Well, there...

...There's no love lost between you," said Mr. Goring. " I remember a sailor reciting these lines to me : ' A messmate before a shipmate, a shipmate before a stranger, a stranger before a dog, but a dog before a soldier.'" " All the Service books are about soldiers," said Mr. Cox ; " why...

...out (' Studs, in Xav. Hist.,' 346), even until quite recent times there was a saying on board ship, " a messmate before a shipmate ; a shipmate before a stranger ; a stranger before a dog ; but — a dog before a soldier." - It ia tolerably certain, nevertheless, that the Amaranthe...

...of a table of relative appreciation — if we ought not rather to say depreciation : ' a mess' mate before a shipmate ; a shipmate before a stranger ; a ' stranger before a dog ; but a dog before a soldier ' ; though in the concrete they continually showed themselves ready...

...records in his Commonplace Book that in the sister and senior service of the navy it was a saying : " A messmate before a shipmate, a shipmate before a stranger, a stranger before a dog, and a dog before a soldier," and one may surmise this saying to have been a brief exposition of...

...—WHAT'S IN A NAME? Hear ye the "Seaman'» Creed:" • A messmate before a watchmale. • A watchmate before a shipmate. • A shipmate before a stranger. • A stranger before a dog. • A dog before a lubber. Way back In the 1 600' % seafaring men coined the word "lubber" by...

...One of Cooper's naval heroes expressed the descending scale of hatred very forcibly when he said " A messmate before a shipmate ; a shipmate before a stranger ; a stranger before a dog ; but, a dog before a soldier." We think average provincial Englishmen would place "a Central Board"...

...recovered from seasickness only to succumb to scurvy. They got no pity from the sailors who had a saying: "A messmate before a shipmate, a shipmate before a stranger, a stranger before a dog, a dog before a soldier." «i Both foremast and mainmast of the "Norwich" had been sprung by ocean...

...was the social standing of the British soldier in the 18th century that one table of preferences was: 'a messmate before a shipmate, a shipmate before a stranger, a stranger before a dog and a dog before a soldier'. ('The Making of the British' Observer Magazine 3/8/1975). As late...

...fresh air and sunshine, would hoist our battered mugs of beer and roar our allegiance to each other: "A messmate before a shipmate, a shipmate before a stranger, a stranger before a dog, and a dog before a soldier!" Thus we topmen declared our eminent superiority to all those lesser...