brought. Then we remembered the water-melon.

"Don't think 'twill give yer the stomach-ache, do yer?" asked the
Captain, as he prepared to cut the melon. "You remember how it
killed one of them Black Pedros, don't yer?"

We all voted that it could not possibly give us the stomach-ache.
And it didn't. Then we drew lots to see who would have the
unpleasant job of washing the dishes. Ed Mason and I lost, and
retired below to do the work. We could hear them talking on deck.
Jimmy was still at the wheel; the Captain and Mr. Daddles lighted
their pipes.

"I thought, when yer begun to talk 'bout pirates," said Captain
Bannister, "that yer meant something 'bout the diggin' for
treasure on Fishback Island."

"No; I never heard of it."

"Why, they've been diggin' an' blastin' there for years. Some
folks was doin' it when my father was a boy. He had a try at it,
an' so did I, one summer 'bout nine or ten year ago."

"Who put the treasure there?"

"Cap'n Kidd, they said. They lay everything on him. Why, folks has
come from all round. One crowd formed a jint-stock company, an'
sold shares, an' skun a whole pile of money outer people. Another
man come in his yacht, an' he fetched a feller with him who could
find treasure with his eyes shut, so he said. He was one of these