#THE CAINE MUTINY FULL#
He came back with the ice cream, all right, but he said: "Sir, there ain't no more strawberries." Now, Gentlemen, I do not believe that the officers of this ship consumed a full gallon of strawberries. About an hour ago, I sent Whittaker to the pantry to bring me another portion. As you all know we had an excellent dessert for dinner tonight: ice cream and frozen strawberries. I suppose you're wondering why I called this meeting.I will not be made a fool of! Do you hear me? There will be no liberty for any member of this crew for three months. Since you've taken this course, the innocent will be punished with the guilty. Some misguided sailors on this ship still think they can pull a fast one on me. They do things my way, and we'll get along. Maryk, you may tell the crew for me that there are four ways of doing things aboard my ship: The right way, the wrong way, the Navy way, and my way. Aboard my ship, excellent performance is standard, standard performance is sub-standard, and sub-standard performance is not permitted to exist - that, I warn you. That's one of the nice things about being captain.
And I don't lose arguments on board my ship. Deviate from the book, and you'd better have good reasons and you'll still get an argument from me. When in doubt, remember we do things by the book. I believe everything was put in it for a purpose. Any one who knows me knows I'm a book man. The way those subs ganged up on us I thought they had it in for me, personally. Believe you me, they made the last two mighty interesting.
I've had seven tough years in the Atlantic. Gentlemen, we'll be shipmates for a long time and I thought we ought to get acquainted.
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