He even ceased to consider me any more than if I had been the dirty deck under his feet.

And then, when he had done with my property and could get no more good out of it, he cast it to me in charity as a man would toss a penny to a beggar.

Before I sail anywhere else, Ben Greenway," continued Bonnet, "I sail for Ocracoke Inlet, and when I sight Blackbeard's miserable little sloop I shall pour broadside after broadside into her until I sink his wretched craft with his bedizened carcass on board of it." "But wi' your men stand by ye ?" cried Greenway.

"Ye're neither a pirate nor a vessel o' war to enter into a business like that." Bonnet swore one of his greatest oaths.

"There is no business nor war for me, Ben Greenway," he cried, "until I have taught that insolent Blackbeard what manner of man I am." Ben Greenway was very much disheartened.