`` There ! '' he cried . `` That 's what I think of ye . Before an hour 's out , I 'll stove in your old block house like a rum puncheon . Laugh , by thunder , laugh ! Before an hour 's out , ye 'll laugh upon the other side . Them that die 'll be the lucky ones . '' And with a dreadful oath he stumbled off , ploughed down the sand , was helped across the stockade , after four or five failures , by the man with the flag of truce , and disappeared in an instant afterwards among the trees . 21 The Attack AS soon as Silver disappeared , the captain , who had been closely watching him , turned towards the interior of the house and found not a man of us at his post but Gray . It was the first time we had ever seen him angry . `` Quarters ! '' he roared . And then , as we all slunk back to our places , `` Gray , '' he said , `` I 'll put your name in the log ; you 've stood by your duty like a seaman . Mr. Trelawney , I 'm surprised at you , sir . Doctor , I thought you had worn the king 's coat ! If that was how you served at Fontenoy , sir , you 'd have been better in your berth . '' The doctor 's watch were all back at their loopholes , the rest were busy loading the spare muskets , and everyone with a red face , you may be certain , and a flea in his ear , as the saying is . The captain looked on for a while in silence . Then he spoke . `` My lads , '' said he , `` I 've given Silver a broadside .
I pitched it in red-hot on purpose ; and before the hour 's out , as he XXXXX , we shall be boarded .
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