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] (meaning well). Shake hands on ’t.

. No, Captain, no.

(He has to link with the hook, but he does not join in the song.)

. Yo ho, yo ho, when I say ‘paw,’ By fear they’re overtook, Naught’s left upon your bones when you Have shaken hands with Hook!

(Frightened by a tug at his hand, is joining in the chorus when another sound stills them both. It is a tick, tick as of a clock, whose significance  is, naturally, the first to recognise. ‘The crocodile!’ he cries, and totters from the scene.  follows. A huge crocodile, of one thought compact, passes across, ticking, and oozes after them. The wood is now so silent that you may be sure it is full of redskins.  comes first. She is the belle of the Piccaninny tribe, whose braves would all have her to wife, but she wards them off with a hatchet. She puts her ear to the ground and listens,