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"I decline to answer, Jiet your bundles ready"

"You're a fine pirate, ain't you, Black Bart!" he broke out "Do you

hold yerself fit to head a band o' bold an' desprit men, when you let

yerself be bluffed by yon varlet, an' hiimme a desert island, or even a pirut ship, a

week, like the chance you got, an' beshrew me, but any heartless jade

would be mine!"

"Oh, maybe not, Jimmy"

"--Or else she'd walk the plank"

"There isn't any plank to walk here, Ji to our

boat, which lay in the shoals far out "I rather wish there were"

"You'll have to carry ht ar of the sort, Jimmy"

"Don't you like her no more? An' if you don't, what're we here for?"

I could foresee embarrassments in further conversation with Jiht out others lessof the camp and the embarkment of all in

the small boats I left Peterson and Willy to take the ladies and ey for his cook

boat, and decided to pole the light draft duck boat over the shallows

direct to the yacht, taking my two associates with ers out to the long