. The galleon treasure . to dance withthe pain of it whether I would or no, andthe others took up the cry and with their 118 THE GALLEON TREASURE. clubs and knives I was made to hop anddance about that cave to their ^reat merri- o ment, until I fell exhausted and could nomore dance though they killed me withtheir cruelty. And then I saw one of them rise up andcome toward me, and I wondered withwhat little wit I had left me what newthing they would devise to torment me,when I heard him say, Have done, have done ! The dullardknoweth something of the country roundabout these parts, Ill be bound,
. The galleon treasure . to dance withthe pain of it whether I would or no, andthe others took up the cry and with their 118 THE GALLEON TREASURE. clubs and knives I was made to hop anddance about that cave to their ^reat merri- o ment, until I fell exhausted and could nomore dance though they killed me withtheir cruelty. And then I saw one of them rise up andcome toward me, and I wondered withwhat little wit I had left me what newthing they would devise to torment me,when I heard him say, Have done, have done ! The dullardknoweth something of the country roundabout these parts, Ill be bound, and may-hap hell be of service to us yet if ye leavethe breath in his body. We be none toomanv, as it is. V And so they rolled me back to my corner,and I think I must have fainted and thenslept very long and sound, for I know thatthe day was breaking then, and when Iwoke, being roused by the sore pain in mylimbs, the night was on again and thepirates were drinking and carousing withmany a jest and story which I will not. HE PRICKED ME IN THE LEGS SO THAT I WAS FAIN TO DANCE. THE NEW YOJIK AST<»K,T1LD&NB AND I SPEND AN UNGODLY SABBATH. 119 repeat and indeed I could not well under-stand all their jesting, trapped out as itwas with so many oaths unfamiliar to mineears, but I made out that I was the buttof many of their jokes, and there was talkof the Infernal Majesty, which, it seemed,was moored out at Tinkers Island, whereLow was waiting for the treasure-ladenship. Now, this Tinkers Island, I knew, wasa little island lying somewhere off the coastof Marblehead, and I sasv then how thatthe governor was partly right in his sup-posing that the pirates wrere at Marble-head, and I also knew now whence theycame in the night in the little shallopwhich seemed to be coming from someunknown realm. As the night went on, those men drankdeeper and deeper, until one or two fell offto sleep and then the leader, who was stillthe soberest of all and bore his potationswell, ordered that I be bo
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