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when I heard a trifling dispute betw. Corporal Hopkins and the prisr Middleditch as the Prisr was cleaning his piece, which he did in a careless manner. Some person said that was a dockyard stroke, meaning a lazy stroke. Just after that I went out of the Barrack, & heard them wrangling.
Some time after, I was walking with H. Hopkins in the Veranda of the Barracks when the prisr came out rubbing his piece in the same manner. As we approached the door where prisr stood he sd “I will have another