In another direction you see large cases containing heaps of articles, reminding one of a shoemaker's furnishing-store--wooden _serving-mallets, fids, toggles_, and _heavers:_ iron _prickers_ and _marling-spikes;_ in a third quarter you see a sort of hardware shop--shelves piled with all manner of hooks, bolts, nails, screws, and _thimbles;_ and, in still another direction, you see a block-maker's store, heaped up with lignum-vitae sheeves and wheels.
Through low arches in the bulkhead beyond, you peep in upon distant vaults and catacombs, obscurely lighted in the far end, and showing immense coils of new ropes, and other bulky articles, stowed in tiers, all savouring of tar.
But by far the most curious department of these mysterious store-rooms is the armoury, where the spikes, cutlasses, pistols, and belts, forming the arms of the boarders in time of action, are hung against the walls, and suspended in thick rows from the beams overhead.

Here, too, are to be seen scores of Colt's patent revolvers, which, though furnished with but one tube, multiply the fatal bullets, as the naval cat-o'-nine-tails, with a cannibal cruelty, in one blow nine times multiplies a culprit's lashes; so that when a sailor is ordered one dozen lashes, the sentence should read one hundred and eight.

All these arms are kept in the brightest order, wearing a fine polish, and may truly be said to _reflect_ credit on the Yeoman and his mates.
Among the lower grade of officers in a man-of-war, that of Yeoman is not the least important.

His responsibilities are denoted by his pay.
While the _petty officers_, quarter-gunners, captains of the tops, and others, receive but fifteen and eighteen dollars a month--but little more than a mere able seamen--the Yeoman in an American line-of-battle ship receives forty dollars, and in a frigate thirty-five dollars per month.
He is accountable for all the articles under his charge, and on no account must deliver a yard of twine or a ten-penny nail to the boatswain or carpenter, unless shown a written requisition and order from the Senior Lieutenant.

The Yeoman is to be found burrowing in his underground store-rooms all the day long, in readiness to serve licensed customers.