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Because, if it ain't, it'll be a poor joke for some of you!" "Man alive, why should we want to fool you? What good could it do us? It's all right." "Well, if it's all right, we'll all have a drink on it. Here, Maggie, Lucy, Billy, come here. Get it pannikin. You won't mind me treatin' 'em with your rum, I suppose, Mister?" he said, turning to Gordon.
Filling their pannikin, which held a pint, to the brim, Chard poured half of it into his own empty tin, and then passed them both to the men. They sat down together on the bottom boards amidships, and then raised the pannikins. "Here's good luck to you, Mr. Chard, and you, skipper."
"Av coorse I didn' mane it. It just took me, ye see, lyin' up yondher and huggin' me thoughts in this wilderness. I swear to ye, George: and ye'll just wet your throat to show there's no bad blood, and that ye belave me." He took up a pannikin from the floor beside the bunk, pulled a hot iron from the fire, and stirred the frozen drink. The invalid turned his shoulder pettishly.
Besides the leather-leggings, moccasins, deerskin hunting shirt, cap, and belt which composed his costume, he had a short heavy hunting-knife, a piece of tinder, a little tin pannikin, which he had been in the habit of carrying at his belt, and a large cake of maple sugar. This last is a species of sugar which is procured by the Indians from the maple-tree.
He made as if to rise, but sat again. "The cold is numbing; it would weaken a lion. Give me a hot drink, sir." I filled a pannikin with the melted wine, which he swallowed thirstily. "More!" cried he. "I seem to want life." Again I filled the pannikin. "Good!" said he, fetching a sigh as he returned the vessel; "you are very obliging, sir. If you have food there, we will eat together."
'I've got a bit of a dazzler here to spring on you. What d'yer think o' that? He removed his hat, and exposed a pint pannikin filled to the brim with clean, coarse nuggets. 'Whew! whistled Jim. 'You've hit it thick. 'Yes, he said. 'That's from three buckets off the bottom. I s'pose you'll get her just ez good. My mate's got a few ounces o' finer stuff.
You don't know me, and that's a pity; because if you did know something about me you'd walk carefully. When we're off this yacht, I don't say. If you want what old-timers used to call their pannikin of rum, you'll be welcome to it. But on board the Wanderer, nothing doing. Get your duffel out. I'll have a look at it." "Get it yourself," said Flint.
The Admiral stood gazing upon the southward shore that hung in a dazzling haze. Now we thought water, now we thought land. He called to a ship boy and the lad presently brought him a pannikin of water dipped from the sea. The Admiral tasted. "Fresh! It is almost fresh!" He stood with a kindling face. "A river runs into sea from this land!
That's the way, my lad; when the king, or the queen now it's all the same thing has once got his hand on you it's of no use kicking against it. I have been pressed twice myself, so I know how you feel. Here, mates," he said to two of the other sailors, "lend a hand and get a bucket of fresh water and a pannikin, and half a dozen buckets of salt water, and let these lads have a drink and a wash."
The words penetrated Stane's consciousness as he opened his eyes, and were followed by others which he obeyed instinctively. "Tak' anoder drink. Zee whisky veel vake you proper." He gulped from the tin pannikin which was held to his lips, and coughed as the raw, potent spirit burned his throat. Then he sat up and looked at the man who was befriending him. "Who ... who are you?" he asked weakly.
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