Summary
A shipboard narrator describes taking a six-hour night watch in the refrigerating room during wartime, aboard a vessel carrying frozen meat to the Armée d’Orient. The piece dwells on the rain, the machinery, the cat Thomas, and the routine of dressing, tea, and inspection, while showing how a year of unbroken service has worn the crew down. Its subject is the monotony of war work and the shared desire among officers and men to go home.
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