These haul aft the fore and main-sheets, besides being subject to ignoble duties; attending to the drainage and sewerage below hatches.

These fellows are all Jimmy Duxes--sorry chaps, who never put foot in ratlin, or venture above the bulwarks.

Inveterate "_sons of farmers_," with the hayseed yet in their hair, they are consigned to the congenial superintendence of the chicken-coops, pig-pens, and potato-lockers.
These are generally placed amidships, on the gun-deck of a frigate, between the fore and main hatches; and comprise so extensive an area, that it much resembles the market place of a small town.

The melodious sounds thence issuing, continually draw tears from the eyes of the Waisters; reminding them of their old paternal pig-pens and potato-patches.

They are the tag-rag and bob-tail of the crew; and he who is good for nothing else is good enough for a _Waister_.
Three decks down--spar-deck, gun-deck, and berth-deck--and we come to a parcel of Troglodytes or "_holders_," who burrow, like rabbits in warrens, among the water-tanks, casks, and cables.