All the better for the work we've got to do.

Mind your helm there.

Here, lads, take a pull at the topsail halyards; and some of you get the nightcap off Long Tom.
I say, Mr.Scraggs, should we show them the _red_, by way of comforting their hearts ?" Scraggs shook his head dubiously.

"You forget the cruiser.

She has eyes aboard, and may chance to set them on that same red; in which case it's likely she would show us her teeth." "And what then ?" demanded Manton, "are _you_ also growing chicken-hearted?
Besides," he added, in a milder tone, "the cruiser is quietly at anchor on the other side of the island, and there's not a captain in the British navy who could take a pinnace, much less a ship, through the reefs at the north end of the island without a pilot." "Well," returned Scraggs, carelessly, "do as you please.