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Now in ged beasts) I had learned that it is the first blow that tells; wherefore groping for the latch I stealthily opened the door and, or ever the red-headed felloare, I was upon hi him no chance for defence, I sainst the bulkhead whence he sank to hands and knees Then while, half-dazed, he strove to rise, I kicked hiht up the rope's-end he had dropped and beat hi, face hid beneath his crossed ar out my knife, I fronted his two mates, the one a doleful, bony man with a squint, the other a s one bright eye, leered at the fro beneath y throat, and nodded again Hereupon I stooped above my captive and set the flat of my blade to his forehead just below his thick, red hair

"Look'ee, dog!" I panted, while he glared up at er on yon pitiful brat again and I'll cut a allows-face shall last your life out"

"His throat, cully--quick's the word!" breathed a voice in my ear But now as I turned and the little black-eyed fellow leapt ni of the ladder that led to the s, and after these a round body, and last of all a great, flat face small of mouth, small of nose, and with a pair of little, quick eyes that winked and blinked betwixt hairless lids

The fat fellow having got him down the ladder (and ondrous ease for one of his bulk) stood winking and blinking at ers

"Love h-pitched voice "Perish and plagueo' ye, Andy lad--you as be cock o' the ship?" Here the fellow beneath uts!" says the fatharder than ever, "So bad as that, Andy lad? Wot then, hath this fine, upstanding cock o' cocks thrashed all the hell-fire spirit out o' ye, Andy lad? Love ht no man aboard could do as much, Andy"