which is why Pullings is the only functioning brain cell on board the HMS Sophie
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“‘Done, sir, done to a turn,’ came the distant answer, and a moment later the steward raced in from the galley with a golden pie.
Pullings thrust in his knife, thrust in his spoon, and his anxiety gave way to triumph. ‘There, Doctor,’ he said, passing Stephen his plate. ‘There’s my surprise – there’s your real welcome aboard!’
‘Bless me,’ cried Stephen, staring at his goose and truffle pie – more truffle than goose – ‘Mr Pullings, joy, I am amazed, amazed and delighted.’
‘I hoped you might be,’ said Pullings, and he explained to the others that long ago, when first made lieutenant, he had seen that the Doctor loved trubs, so he had gone out into the forest, the New Forest, where he lived by land, and had dug him a basket, by way of welcome aboard: and Mowett had composed a song.”
– The Ionian Mission
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Tom Pullings implies the existence of Tom Pushings
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1st. Lieutenant Tom Pullings and Captain Jack Aubrey
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