CHAPTER VIII.

Preparing to tow--A Squabble--Drifting astern--Ease her! Stop her!--Coutez la Rope--Return to Shanghai--Another Christmas--New Year’s Day--Cold Weather--Freezing a Brass Monkey--Feast of Lanterns--Millions of Lights--Unfair Dealing--The unlucky Jeweller--Unlucky Greengrocer--Unworthy Englishmen--English Talkee--Chin-chin, Jack--Consequences of Idleness--Rambles on Shore--A Lower-deck at Dinner-time--Criticism on Beef--Yankee Navy _versus_ English Navy--A royal Reason why--The First Lord and the Grub--A Man of Bread--A few Remarks about Food--Very nice Meat--Night Quarters--A Broadside--Uproar--Obeying Instructions--Another Alarm--All adrift--A Yankee Skipper 121