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and all to feed the fishes. There’s never a man looked me between
the eyes and seen a good day a’terwards, Tom Morgan, you may
lay to that.”

Morgan paused, but a hoarse murmur rose from the others.
“Tom’s right,” said one.

“I stood hazing long enough from one,” added another. “I’ll be
hanged if I’ll be hazed by you, John Silver.”

“Did any of you gentlemen want to have it out with ME?”
roared Silver, bending far forward from his position on the keg,
with his pipe still glowing in his right hand. “Put a name on what
you’re at; you ain’t dumb, I reckon. Him that wants shall get it.
Have I lived this many years, and a son of a rum puncheon cock
his hat athwart my hawse at the latter end of it? You know the
way; you’re all gentlemen o’ fortune, by your account. Well, I’m
ready. Take a cutlass, him that dares, and I’ll see the colour of his
inside, crutch and all, before that pipe’s empty.”

Not a man stirred; not a man answered.
“That’s your sort, is it?” he added, returning his pipe to his
mouth. “Well, you’re a gay lot to look at, anyway. Not much worth
to fight, you ain’t. P’r’aps you can understand King George’s
English. I’m cap’n here by ‘lection. I’m cap’n here because I’m the
best man by a long sea-mile. You won’t fight, as gentlemen o’
fortune should; then, by thunder, you’ll obey, and you may lay to
it! I like that boy, now; I never seen a better boy than that. He’s
more a man than any pair of rats of you in this here house, and
what I say is this: let me see him that’ll lay a hand on him--that’s
what I say, and you may lay to it.”

There was a long pause after this. I stood straight up against
the wall, my heart still going like a sledge-hammer, but with a ray


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