And how did I begin ? Before the mast , like you ! '' `` Well , '' said the other , `` but all the other money 's gone now , ai n't it ? You dare n't show face in Bristol after this . '' `` Why , where might you suppose it was ? '' asked Silver derisively . `` At Bristol , in banks and places , '' answered his companion . `` It were , '' said the cook ; `` it were when we weighed anchor . But my old missis has it all by now . And the Spy-glass is sold , lease and goodwill and rigging ; and the old girl 's off to meet me . I would tell you where , for I trust you , but it 'd make jealousy among the mates . '' `` And can you trust your missis ? '' asked the other . `` Gentlemen of fortune , '' returned the cook , `` usually trusts little among themselves , and right they are , you may lay to it . But I have a way with me , I have . When a mate brings a slip on his cable -- one as knows me , I mean -- it wo n't be in the same world with old John . There was some that was feared of Pew , and some that was feared of Flint ; but Flint his own self was feared of me . Feared he was , and proud . They was the roughest crew afloat , was Flint 's ; the devil himself would have been feared to go to sea with them . Well now , I tell you , I 'm not a boasting man , and you seen yourself how easy I keep company , but when I was quartermaster , LAMBS was n't the word for Flint 's old buccaneers .
Ah , you may be sure of yourself in old XXXXX 's ship . ''
Bristol Flint John Pew Spy-glass buccaneers devil missis right slip