While on board we celebrated our birthday--that is, my wife's birthday
and my own (for by a curious chance we were both born on the same day,
though not in the same year!)--and at tea-time a beautiful birthday
cake appeared upon the scene, beautifully sugared and decorated with
our names and appropriate inscriptions, just as if it had been made
ashore.
I do not know how the knowledge of the birthday got about, but I do
know that the cake was a most excellent one, and the kind thought of
the baker in making it was greatly appreciated by both of us.
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