Pepper Mustard. 5 drams daily for cooking and table. 4 lbs: Weekly for 1,000 boys. ..... 6 lbs. PUDDINGS.-Four festival days a year and Christmas day, to consist of the following proportions, namely, for 1,000 boys: NOTE.-On Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, half the rations will be made into sea pies (to consist of preserved or fresh meat, at the rate of 4 ounces for each boy, in lieu of his fresh meat ration). The dinner allowance of bread will not be issued to those messes for which the sea pies are cooked (but the "seamanship class" will get the 4 ounces of bread, and also 2 ounces of flour, in addition to the 4 ounces), 4 ounces of flour and ounce of suet will be issued for each boy on sea pies, and 100 pounds of vegetables (carrots and onions) for 1,000 boys, to be used in making the pies and soup, and 13 ounces of herbs for every 1,000 boys on soup. The dripping saved from the roast meat will be divided among the boys in turn to eat with their bread at breakfast. Average, &c., in height, weight, and chest measurement. Height in inches. Weight in pounds. Chest in inches. CHAPTER VIII. GENERAL ROUTINE OF GREENWICH HOSPITAL SCHOOL. A. M. 6.30-Bugle sound, "rouse," turn out and make up beds. 6.45-Boys march to lavatories. 7.00-Bugle call for shoeblacks of sections. 7.15-Bugle call for cooks of messes. 7.20-Fall in for breakfast. 7.25-March to mess-hall. 7.30-Breakfast. 7.50-Boys marched out of mess-hall into gymnasium, and to be there told off in working parties. 8.00-Sick-call. 8.15-Trade boys of the watch fall in for inspection (in working clothes) by adjutant, after which to be marched to their respective trade-shops by petty-officer boy in charge. 8.30-Parade in gymnasium (of the boys who are to be at school). Inspection by company officers and chief of staff. 9.00 Superintendent's inspection. Prayers by chaplain. 9.15-Watch for school to be marched to school-rooms. 11.20-Dismiss for ten minutes. Boys in shops dismissed from work. P. M. 12.30-Marched out of class-rooms. 12.35-Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, drill (the two first days at infantry, the last day at fire quarters). 1.10-Dismiss from drill. 1.15-Bugle call for cooks of messes. 1.20-Dinner formation. 1.30-Dinner. 1.50-To be marched out of mess-hall to skylark. 5.00 Dismissed to skylark. 6.00-Boys marched to class-rooms for evening study 6.40-Dismissed from study. 6.45-Bugle call for cooks of messes. 6.50-Formation for tea. 7.00-Tea. 7.20-Dismissed to skylark. 8.00-March to dormitories. 8.30-Rounds by chief of staff. 10.00-Rounds by company officer During the warmer months the seamanship division (consisting of all boys over thirteen years of age) is exercised from 8 to 9 a. m., on board ship, in seamanship exercises. CLASS ROUTINES. I append the routines of the classes of the general school, to the understanding of which some explanation is necessary. Those in the cases of the upper and lower classes are divided, in each day, by horizontal lines, the subjects above the line applying to the upper class, those below to the lower. Each routine covers two weeks; as, taking the upper first class in school on Monday morning, it is at trade work that afternoon and the forenoon of Tuesday, going into school again on Tuesday afternoon and on Wednesday morning; so that half of each day only is passed at school work. It will be seen that each class gets two lessons a week in singing, a subject much taught in English schools generally. The boys seem to take great pleasure in this part of the course, in which many a lad has good musical powers trained, which might otherwise lie dormant through life. Their singing at grace before and after meals and in church is very stirring. |