of a farmer in the olden days impressed onto a ship by the dad of the rich girl he liked. Or anyone forced into sailin’ life but not fit for it, and the rest of the crew feels bad for him, but they’re also sort of annoyed because he’s bad at being on the ship, and he’s depressing because he’s weeping a lot. And then he falls overboard and they can’t find his corpse. I hope this was “their way” of dealing with it:
The medal of King George is there, of course, to remind us of those
