or do ye seek to affront me ? '' `` Captain , '' says Alan , `` I doubt your word is a breakable . Last night ye haggled and argle-bargled like an apple-wife ; and then passed me your word , and gave me your hand to back it ; and ye ken very well what was the upshot . Be damned to your word ! '' says he . `` Well , well , sir , '' said the captain , `` ye 'll get little good by swearing . '' -LRB- And truly that was a fault of which the captain was quite free . -RRB- `` But we have other things to speak , '' he continued , bitterly . `` Ye 've made a sore hash of my brig ; I have n't hands enough left to work her ; and my first officer -LRB- whom I could ill spare -RRB- has got your sword throughout his vitals , and passed without speech . There is nothing left me , sir , but to put back into the port of Glasgow after hands ; and there -LRB- by your leave -RRB- ye will find them that are better able to talk to you . '' `` Ay ? '' said Alan ; `` and faith , I 'll have a talk with them mysel ' ! Unless there 's naebody speaks English in that town , I have a bonny tale for them . Fifteen tarry sailors upon the one side , and a man and a halfling boy upon the other ! O , man , it 's peetiful ! '' Hoseason flushed red . `` No , '' continued Alan , `` that 'll no do . Ye 'll just have to set me ashore as we agreed . '' `` Ay , '' said Hoseason , `` but my first officer is dead -- ye ken best how . There 's none of the rest of us acquaint with this coast , sir ; and it 's one very dangerous to ships . ''
`` I give ye your choice , '' says XXXXX .
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