Then the next day we were all hauled before a court and judged, and having all been found guilty were condemned to be shaved and bathed publicly at four.

Meantime the Italians, is it not the picture of them, had organized a revolution against the Tribunal, with the object of ducking them.

They went into this as though it were a real conspiracy and had signs and passwords.

At four o'clock, in turn they sat us on the edge of the great tank on the well deck and splashed us over with paste and then tilted us in.

I tried to carry the Frenchman who was acting as barber, with me but only got him half in.
But Milani, one of the Italians, swung him over his head plumb into the water.