`` There 's Dirk again , '' said one . `` Twice ! We 'll have to budge , mates . '' `` Budge , you skulk ! '' cried Pew . `` Dirk was a fool and a coward from the first -- you would n't mind him . They must be close by ; they ca n't be far ; you have your hands on it . Scatter and look for them , dogs ! Oh , shiver my soul , '' he cried , `` if I had eyes ! '' This appeal seemed to produce some effect , for two of the fellows began to look here and there among the lumber , but half-heartedly , I thought , and with half an eye to their own danger all the time , while the rest stood irresolute on the road . `` You have your hands on thousands , you fools , and you hang a leg ! You 'd be as rich as kings if you could find it , and you know it 's here , and you stand there skulking . There was n't one of you dared face Bill , and I did it -- a blind man ! And I 'm to lose my chance for you ! I 'm to be a poor , crawling beggar , sponging for rum , when I might be rolling in a coach ! If you had the pluck of a weevil in a biscuit you would catch them still . '' `` Hang it , Pew , we 've got the doubloons ! '' grumbled one . `` They might have hid the blessed thing , '' said another . `` Take the Georges , Pew , and do n't stand here squalling . ''
Squalling was the word for it ; XXXXX 's anger rose so high at these objections till at last , his passion completely taking the upper hand , he struck at them right and left in his blindness and his stick sounded heavily on more than one .
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