And with that he went off to see my father , taking me with him by the arm . `` This is nothing , '' he said as soon as he had closed the door . `` I have drawn blood enough to keep him quiet awhile ; he should lie for a week where he is -- that is the best thing for him and you ; but another stroke would settle him . '' 3 The Black Spot ABOUT noon I stopped at the captain 's door with some cooling drinks and medicines . He was lying very much as we had left him , only a little higher , and he seemed both weak and excited . `` Jim , '' he said , `` you 're the only one here that 's worth anything , and you know I 've been always good to you . Never a month but I 've given you a silver fourpenny for yourself . And now you see , mate , I 'm pretty low , and deserted by all ; and Jim , you 'll bring me one noggin of rum , now , wo n't you , matey ? '' `` The doctor -- '' I began . But he broke in cursing the doctor , in a feeble voice but heartily . `` Doctors is all swabs , '' he said ; `` and that doctor there , why , what do he know about seafaring men ? I been in places hot as pitch , and mates dropping round with Yellow Jack , and the blessed land a-heaving like the sea with earthquakes -- what to the doctor know of lands like that ? -- and I lived on rum , I tell you . It 's been meat and drink , and man and wife , to me ; and if I 'm not to have my rum now I 'm a poor old hulk on a lee shore , my blood 'll be on you , Jim , and that doctor swab '' ; and he ran on again for a while with curses . `` Look , Jim , how my fingers fidges , '' he continued in the pleading tone . `` I ca n't keep 'em still , not I. I have n't had a drop this blessed day . That doctor 's a fool , I tell you . If I do n't have a drain o ' rum , Jim , I 'll have the horrors ; I seen some on 'em already . I seen old Flint in the corner there , behind you ; as plain as print , I seen him ; and if I get the horrors , I 'm a man that has lived rough , and I 'll raise Cain . Your doctor hisself said one glass would n't hurt me .
I 'll give you a golden guinea for a XXXXX , Jim . ''
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