Rudyard Kipling Quote

Good morrn, M'Andrew! Back again? An' how's your bilge to-day? Miscallin' technicalities but handlin' me my chair To drink Madeira wi' three Earls — the auld Fleet Engineer That started as a boiler-whelp — when steam and he were low.

Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling - McAndrew's Hymn (p. 35), Doubleday, Page. 1915