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The mate advised the men to take a reef in their belts when they felt hungry. `Ay, ay, sir, answered Tom, laughing, `it's the best way to keep hunger out, when there happens to be no plum-dough to stow aboard. `I wonder who will have ours, exclaimed another of the men. `I'll lay anything Dick Handspike does his best to get my share. Thus the men joked and laughed as if we were not in the middle of the Atlantic, with a fearful probability of being starved to death.