midday
`` No , no ! Put those cool water-monkeys on the table and be gone ! Come , Clinker , take a bite with us ! '' Leaving this pleasant party to sip their claret and water , and nibble their midday food , while they rambled back to the past or schemed into the future , we will return to the frigate . `` The handsomest fellow , Heaven bless him ! Setting the girls all wild to possess him , With his dark mustache and his hazel eyes , And cigars in those pretty lips -- '' `` That girl who fain would choose a mate , Should ne'er in fondness fail her , May thank her lucky stars if Fate Should splice her to a sailor . '' `` The ` Rosalie 's ' gig coming alongside , sir , '' reported the quarter-master to the officer of the watch .