Wait is what I say ; but when the time comes , why , let her rip ! '' `` John , '' cries the coxswain , `` you 're a man ! '' `` You 'll say so , Israel when you see , '' said Silver . `` Only one thing I claim -- I claim Trelawney . I 'll wring his calf 's head off his body with these hands , Dick ! '' he added , breaking off . `` You just jump up , like a sweet lad , and get me an apple , to wet my pipe like . '' You may fancy the terror I was in ! I should have leaped out and run for it if I had found the strength , but my limbs and heart alike misgave me . I heard Dick begin to rise , and then someone seemingly stopped him , and the voice of Hands exclaimed , `` Oh , stow that ! Do n't you get sucking of that bilge , John . Let 's have a go of the rum . '' `` Dick , '' said Silver , `` I trust you . I 've a gauge on the keg , mind . There 's the key ; you fill a pannikin and bring it up . '' Terrified as I was , I could not help thinking to myself that this must have been how Mr. Arrow got the strong waters that 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 XXXXX of the fore-sail ; and almost at the same time the voice of the lookout shouted , `` Land ho ! ''
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