family toast

[macwilkin]

Here's to our wives and sweethearts:
may they never meet!

That is actually Saturday's Toast in the Royal Navy. Here are the other days of the week:

Sunday ............... Absent friends.
Monday ...............Our ships at sea.
Tuesday .............. Our men.
Wednesday ..........Ourselves (as no one else is likely to concern themselves with our welfare).
Thursday ............. A bloody war or a sickly season.
Friday ..................A willing foe and sea room.
Saturday ............. Sweethearts and wives (may they never meet).

T.