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destroyed him.

Dick was gone but a little while, and during his absence Israel
spoke straight on in the cook’s ear. It was but a word or two that I
could catch, and yet I gathered some important news, for besides
other scraps that tended to the same purpose, this whole clause
was audible: “Not another man of them’ll jine.” Hence there were
still faithful men on board.

When Dick returned, one after another of the trio took the
pannikin and drank--one “To luck,” another with a “Here’s to old
Flint,” and Silver himself saying, in a kind of song, “Here’s to
ourselves, and hold your luff, plenty of prizes and plenty of duff.”

Just then a sort of brightness fell upon me in the barrel, and
looking up, I found the moon had risen and was silvering the
mizzen-top and shining white on the luff of the fore-sail; and
almost at the same time the voice of the lookout shouted, “Land
ho!”


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