[Dragon’s blood by Henry Milner Rideout]@TWC D-Link bookDragon’s blood CHAPTER IV 8/21
"Fat lot o' good they are, for skippers, and planters, and gory exiles! Eh, what? Be-george, I'll write him a chit! _I'll_ tell him! Plays be damned; we want more stories!" Red and savage, he hurled the book fluttering into the sea, then swore in consternation. "Oh, I say!" he wailed.
"Fish her out! I've not finished her.
My intention was, ye know, to fling the bloomin' cigar!" Heywood, laughing, rescued the volume on a long bamboo. "Just came out on the look-see, captain," he called up.
"Can't board you.
Plague ashore." "Plague be 'anged!" scoffed the little captain.
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