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PETER PAN
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(The black looks of some others encourage him.)
HOOK. I think I heard you volunteer, Starkey.
STARKEY (emphatically). No, by thunder!
HOOK (in that syrupy voice which might be more engaging when accompanied by his flute). My hook thinks you did. I wonder if it would not be advisable, Starkey, to humour the hook?
STARKEY. I’ll swing before I go in there.
HOOK (gleaming). Is it mutiny? Starkey is ringleader. Shake hands, Starkey.
(STARKEY recoils from the claw. It follows him till he leaps overboard.)
Did any other gentleman say mutiny?
(They indicate that they did not even know the late STARKEY.)
SLIGHTLY. Four!
HOOK. I will bring out that doodle-doo myself.
(He raises a blunderbuss but casts it from him with a menacing gesture which means that he has more faith in the claw. With a
