You shall be the head of all the pirates when I give up the business and take to sugar-planting.

Ha! ha! When I take to sugar-planting and merrily make my own good rum!" Dickory was dismayed.

"But, Captain Blackbeard," he said, with more deference than before, "I cannot." "Cannot!" shouted the pirate, "you lie, you can.

Say not cannot to me; you can do anything I tell you, and do it you shall.

And now I am going to put you in your place, and see that you hold it and fill it.