`` Rule Britannia ! '' squeaked Curly . The infuriated pirates buffeted them in the mouth ; and Hook roared out , `` That seals your doom . Bring up their mother . Get the plank ready . '' They were only boys , and they went white as they saw Jukes and Cecco preparing the fatal plank . But they tried to look brave when Wendy was brought up . No words of mine can tell you how Wendy despised those pirates . To the boys there was at least some glamour in the pirate calling ; but all that she saw was that the ship had not been tidied for years . There was not a porthole on the grimy glass of which you might not have written with your finger `` Dirty pig '' ; and she had already written it on several . But as the boys gathered round her she had no thought , of course , save for them . `` So , my beauty , '' said Hook , as if he spoke in syrup , `` you are to see your children walk the plank . '' Fine gentlemen though he was , the intensity of his communings had soiled his ruff , and suddenly he knew that she was gazing at it . With a hasty gesture he tried to hide it , but he was too late . `` Are they to die ? '' asked Wendy , with a look of such frightful contempt that he nearly fainted . `` They are , '' he snarled . `` Silence all , '' he called gloatingly , `` for a mother 's last words to her children . '' At this moment Wendy was grand . `` These are my last words , dear boys , '' she said firmly .
`` I feel that I have a message to you from your real mothers , and it is this : ` We hope our sons will XXXXX like English gentlemen . ' ''
Bring asked die fainted gathered see snarled soiled squeaked tidied