Long John Silver and his bunch of ruffians are sailing the captured "Hispaniola". Israel Hands, who was badly wounded earlier, at last gives up the ghost.

"Throw him overboard", says Long John Silver, "and then give everybody twenty lashes with the cat o'nine tails".

The crew protest, "Why all this savage punishment, cap'n ?"

"Didn't you know ?" says Silver. "We always have a whip-round for the funeral when somebody dies."