Tea ... for One - story from 'More Tales form Cabin 14'

"Phrases such as "mug-up", "boil-up" and "brew-up" appear with great regularity when describing tea time in the far north. The reason many of those earlier adventurers drank tea was because coffee was hard to come by, it was expensive and many of them were English - so what else would you expect them to drink? And while they may have been roughing it, they were not barbarians.

Lying in our tent one morning my bunkmate and I could hear voices coming from the general direction of the cook tent. "Good" I thought to myself. "Someone is up and will hopefully start breakfast, so once I get a whiff of the coffee brewing, I will saunter on down and offer to help drink it."

Being rather comfortable and warm, I was in no particular hurry to join the breakfast crew, but the voices were getting louder, I could now hear what sounded like laughter and then someone quite clearly said,

"Let’s see if any of them notices…"

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