Captain Horatio Hornblower (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
captainhornblower) wrote2012-01-11 11:18 pm
captainhornblower) wrote2012-01-11 11:18 pm
Eleventh Dispatch - [written]
Wednesday, January 11th
The absence of need here will never cease to amaze me.
It has a price, of course, but food and housing are provided. No one risks starving, no one goes without shelter or clothes, no one need fear the bailiffs or prison for debt.
No one has cause to work here save a want to do so.
I do not think I shall ever be used to it.
By the by, I suppose it cannot hurt to ask. I am not suited for idleness, yet there is little I can do save my work for His Majesty's Royal Navy. I should like to know, though, if any places here are in need of an extra person. I cannot promise to accept, but I should like to know what is requested.
One can, after all, do only so much work on a ship that was nearly perfect from her birth.
Hornblower
The absence of need here will never cease to amaze me.
It has a price, of course, but food and housing are provided. No one risks starving, no one goes without shelter or clothes, no one need fear the bailiffs or prison for debt.
No one has cause to work here save a want to do so.
I do not think I shall ever be used to it.
By the by, I suppose it cannot hurt to ask. I am not suited for idleness, yet there is little I can do save my work for His Majesty's Royal Navy. I should like to know, though, if any places here are in need of an extra person. I cannot promise to accept, but I should like to know what is requested.
One can, after all, do only so much work on a ship that was nearly perfect from her birth.
Hornblower