one o'clock
Put that in your pipe , Mr Trundle , and smoke it . '' This most insulting of all remarks increased tenfold the boatswain 's rage , and the two would have come instantly to fisticuffs , but that , fortunately , at that moment the order to pipe to dinner was given . The boatswain 's call came into requisition , and all hands , except the watch on deck , were soon busily employed in discussing the contents of a cask of beef , boasting of but a small proportion of fat or lean and a considerable superfluity of bone . Now it happened to be Dicky Sharpe 's watch on deck while dinner was going on , and at one o'clock , being relieved , he came down to his own repast , which he was not long in discussing . While he sat turning a large rib-bone over and over , in disgust at finding so little meat on it , and waiting for the boy to clear away , the boatswain , whose cabin could be seen from the berth on the larboard side , roused up from a nap , and began to contemplate his visage in his glass , to discover if he looked in any way as if he had been asleep . It must be understood that it is contrary to the principles of a boatswain worthy of the rank ever to require sleep . He would consider himself disgraced in the eyes of the whole crew , if he were caught taking a wink .