No, says
you. And
if them
pirates
camp
ashore,
Jim, what
would you
say but
there’d be
widders in
the
morning?”
Here he
was
interrupted
by a loud
report,
and a
cannonball
came
tearing
through
the trees
and
pitched in
the sand
not a
hundred
yards from
where we
two were
talking.
The next
moment
each of us
had taken
to his
heels in a
different
direction.
For a good
hour to
come
frequent
reports
shook the
island,
and balls
kept
