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05 - Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson · Classic Adventure Books - Daily

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Speaker 1: Chapter nine, Powder and Arms. The Hispaniola lay some way out,
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Speaker 1: and we went under the figureheads and around the sterns
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Speaker 1: of many other ships, and their cables, sometimes grated beneath
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Speaker 1: our keel, and sometimes swung above us. At last, however,
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Speaker 1: we swung alongside and were met and saluted as we
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Speaker 1: stepped aboard by the mate mister Arrow, a brown old
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Speaker 1: sailor with ear rings in his ears and a squint.
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Speaker 1: He and the squire were very thick and friendly, but
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Speaker 1: I soon observed that things were not the same between
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Speaker 1: mister Trelawney and the captain. This last was a sharp
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Speaker 1: looking man who seemed angry with everything on board, and
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Speaker 1: was soon to tell us why. For we had hardly
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Speaker 1: got down into the cabin when a sailor followed us.
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Speaker 1: Captain Smollett, sir, axing to speak with you, said he.
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Speaker 1: I am always at the Captain's orders. Show him in,
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Speaker 1: said the squire. The Captain, who was close behind his messenger,
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Speaker 1: entered at once and shut the door behind him. Well,
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Speaker 1: Captain Smollett, what have you to say all? Well, I
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Speaker 1: hope all ship shape and seaworthy. Well, sir, said the captain,
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Speaker 1: Better speak plain, I believe at the risk of a fence.
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Speaker 1: I don't like this cruise. I don't like the men,
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Speaker 1: and I don't like my officer. That's short and sweet. Perhaps, sir,
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Speaker 1: you don't like the ship, inquired the squire, very angry
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Speaker 1: as I could see. I can't speak to that, sir,
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Speaker 1: not having seen her tried, said the captain. She seems
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Speaker 1: a clever craft more I can't say. Possibly, sir, you
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Speaker 1: may not like your employer either, said the squire. But
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Speaker 1: here doctor Livesey cut in, stay a bit, said he
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Speaker 1: stay a bit. No use of such questions as that,
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Speaker 1: but to produce ill feeling. The Captain has said too
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Speaker 1: much or he has said too little, and I am
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Speaker 1: bound to say that I require an explanation of his words.
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Speaker 1: You don't you say like this cruise? Now why I
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Speaker 1: was engaged, sir, on what we call sealed orders to
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Speaker 1: sail this ship for that gentleman where he should bid me,
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Speaker 1: said the captain. So far, so good, But now I
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Speaker 1: find that every man before the mast knows more than
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Speaker 1: I do. I don't call that fear, now, do you now,
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Speaker 1: said Doctor Livesey. I don't, next, said the Captain. I
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Speaker 1: learn that we are going after treasure. Hear it from
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Speaker 1: my own hands, mind you, now, treasure is ticklish work.
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Speaker 1: I don't like treasure voyages on any account, and I
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Speaker 1: don't like them above all when they are secret, and
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Speaker 1: when begging your pardon, mister Trelawney, the secret has been
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Speaker 1: told to the parrot. Silver's parrot, asked the squire. It's
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Speaker 1: a way of speaking, said the captain, blabed. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's my belief. Neither of you, gentlemen, know what you
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Speaker 1: are about. But I'll tell you my way of it.
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Speaker 1: Life or death and a close run. That is all clear,
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Speaker 1: And I dare say true enough, replied doctor Livesey. We
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Speaker 1: take the risk, but we are not so ignorant as
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Speaker 1: you believe us. Next, you say you don't like the crew.
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Speaker 1: Are they not good seamen? I don't like them, sir,
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Speaker 1: returned Captain Smollett. And I think I should have had
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Speaker 1: the choosing of my own hands. If you go to that,
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Speaker 1: perhaps you should, replied the doctor. My friend should perhaps
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Speaker 1: have taken you along with him. But the slight, if
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Speaker 1: there be one, was unintentional. And you don't like mister Arrow,
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Speaker 1: I don't, sir, I believe he's a good seaman. But
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Speaker 1: he's too free with the crew to be a good officer.
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Speaker 1: A mate should keep himself to himself, shouldn't drink with
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Speaker 1: the men before the mast. Do you mean he drinks,
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Speaker 1: cried the squire. No, sir, replied the captain, only that
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Speaker 1: he's too familiar. Well, now and the short of the
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Speaker 1: long of it, captain asked the doctor, tell us what
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Speaker 1: you want? Well, gentlemen, are you determined to go on
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Speaker 1: this cruise like iron? Answered the squire. Very good, said
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Speaker 1: the captain. Then, as you've heard me very patiently saying
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Speaker 1: things that I could not prove, hear me a few
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Speaker 1: words more. They are putting the powder and arms in
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Speaker 1: the forehold. Now you have a good place under the cabin.
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Speaker 1: Why not put them there? First point? Then, you are
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Speaker 1: bringing four of your own people with you, and they
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Speaker 1: tell me some of them are to be berthed forward,
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Speaker 1: why not give them the berths here besides the cabin?
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Speaker 1: Second point? Any more, asked mister Trelawney. One more, said
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Speaker 1: the Captain. There's been too much a blabbing already, far
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Speaker 1: too much, agreed the doctor. I'll tell you what I
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Speaker 1: have heard myself, continued Captain Smollett. That you have a
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Speaker 1: map of an island. That there's crosses on the map
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Speaker 1: to show where treasure is, and that the island lies.
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Speaker 1: And then he named the latitude and longitude exactly. I
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Speaker 1: never told that, cried the Squire. To a soul the
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Speaker 1: hands know it, Sir, returned the Captain. Livesey. That must
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Speaker 1: have been your Hawkins, cried the squire. It doesn't much
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Speaker 1: matter who it was, replied the doctor. And I could
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Speaker 1: see that neither he nor the Captain paid much regard
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Speaker 1: to mister Trelawney's protestations. Neither did I to be sure
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Speaker 1: he was so loose a talker. Yet in this case
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Speaker 1: I believe he was really right, and that nobody had
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Speaker 1: told the situation of the island. Well, gentlemen, continued the Captain.
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Speaker 1: I don't know who has this map, but I make
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Speaker 1: it a point it shall be kept secret, even from
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Speaker 1: me and mister Arrow. Otherwise I would ask you to
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Speaker 1: let me resign. I see, said the doctor. You wish
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Speaker 1: us to keep this matter dark, and to make a
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Speaker 1: garrison of the stern part of the ship, manned with
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Speaker 1: my friend's own people, and provided with all the arms
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Speaker 1: and powder on board. In other words, you'll fear a mutiny, Sir,
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Speaker 1: said Captain Smollett, with no intention to take offence. I
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Speaker 1: deny your right to put words into my mouth. No, Captain, Sir,
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Speaker 1: would be justified in going to sea at all if
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Speaker 1: he had ground enough to say that. As for mister Arrow,
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Speaker 1: I believe him thoroughly honest. Some of the men are
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Speaker 1: the same, or maybe for what I know. But I
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Speaker 1: am responsible for the ship's safety and the life of
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Speaker 1: every man jack aboard of her. I see things going
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Speaker 1: as I think not quite right, and I ask you
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Speaker 1: to take certain precautions, or let me resign my birth.
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Speaker 1: And that's all, Captain Smollett began the doctor with a smile.
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Speaker 1: Did you ever hear the feeble of the mountain and
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Speaker 1: the mouse? You'll excuse me, I dare say, but you'll
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Speaker 1: remind me of that fable when you came in here.
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Speaker 1: I'll stake my wig. You meant more than this, doctor,
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Speaker 1: said the Captain. You are smart. When I came in here,
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Speaker 1: I meant to get discharged. I had no thought that
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Speaker 1: mister Trelawney would hear a word. No more, I would
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Speaker 1: cried the Squire. Had Livesey not been here, I should
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Speaker 1: have seen you to the deuce. As it is I
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Speaker 1: have heard you. I will do as you desire, but
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Speaker 1: I think the worst of you. That's as you please, sir,
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Speaker 1: said the captain. You'll find I do my duty, and
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Speaker 1: with that he took his leave. Trelawny, said the doctor.
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Speaker 1: Contrary to all my notions, I believe you have managed
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Speaker 1: to get two honest men on board with you, that
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Speaker 1: man and John Silver Silver if you like, cried the squire.
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Speaker 1: But as for that intolerable humbug, I declare I think
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Speaker 1: his conduct unmanly, unsailorly and downright un English. Well, said
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Speaker 1: the doctor. We shall see when we came on deck.
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Speaker 1: The men had begun all ready to take out the
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Speaker 1: arms and powder yohoeing at their work, while the captain
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Speaker 1: and mister Arrow stood by superintending. The new arrangement was
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Speaker 1: quite to my liking. The whole schooner had been overhauled.
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Speaker 1: Six berths had been made astern out of what had
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Speaker 1: been the after part of the main hold, and this
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Speaker 1: set of cabins was only joined to the galley and
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Speaker 1: forecastle by a sparred passage on the port side. It
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Speaker 1: had been originally meant that the captain mister Arrow Hunter Joyce,
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Speaker 1: the doctor and the Squire were to occupy these six berths.
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Speaker 1: Now Red Ruth and I were to get two of them,
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Speaker 1: and mister Arrow and the Captain were to sleep on
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Speaker 1: deck in the companion, which had been in love on
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Speaker 1: either side till you might almost have called it a roundhouse.
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Speaker 1: Very low it was, still, of course, but there was
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Speaker 1: room to swing to hammocks, and even the mate seemed
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Speaker 1: pleased with the arrangement. Even he perhaps had been doubtful
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Speaker 1: as to the crew, but that is only guess, for
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Speaker 1: as you shall hear, we had not long the benefit
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Speaker 1: of his opinion. We were all hard at work changing
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Speaker 1: the powder and the berths when the last man or two,
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Speaker 1: and Long John along with them, came off in a
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Speaker 1: shore boat. The cook came up the side like a
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Speaker 1: monkey for cleverness, and as soon as he saw what
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Speaker 1: was doing so home mates said he, what's this? We're
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Speaker 1: a change in the powder? Jack answers one. Why by
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Speaker 1: the powers, cried Long John. If we do, we'll miss
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Speaker 1: the mourning tide. My orders, said the Captain. Shortly you
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Speaker 1: may go below. My manner hands will want supper. Aye aye, sir,
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Speaker 1: answered the cook, and touching his forelock. He disappeared at
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Speaker 1: once in the direction of his galley. That's a good man,
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Speaker 1: a captain, said the doctor. Very likely, Sir, replied Captain Smollett.
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Speaker 1: Easy with that men, easy. He ran on to the
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Speaker 1: fellows who were shifting the powder, and then, suddenly observing
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Speaker 1: me examining the swivel, we carried amidships a long brass. Nine.
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Speaker 1: Hear you, ship's boy, he cried out, Are that off
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Speaker 1: with you to the cook and get some work. And
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Speaker 1: then as I was hurrying off, I heard him say,
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Speaker 1: quite loudly to the doctor, I'll have no favorites on
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Speaker 1: my ship, I assure you. I was quite of the
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Speaker 1: Squire's way of thinking, and hated the captain deeply. End
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Speaker 1: of Chapter nine, Chapter ten the voyage. All that night
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Speaker 1: we were in a great bustle, getting things stowed in
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Speaker 1: their place, and boatfuls of the Squire's friends, mister Blandly
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Speaker 1: and the like, coming off to wish him a good
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Speaker 1: voyage and a safe return. We never had a night
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Speaker 1: at the admiral Benbow when I had half the work
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Speaker 1: and I was dog tired. When a little before dawn
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Speaker 1: the bowsn sounded his pipe, and the crew began to
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Speaker 1: man the capstan bars. I might have been twice as weary,
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Speaker 1: yet I would not have left the deck, or was
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Speaker 1: so new and interesting to me the brief commands, the
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Speaker 1: shrill notes of the whistle, the men bustling to their
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Speaker 1: places in the glimmer of the ship's lanterns now, barbecue,
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Speaker 1: tip us, a stave, cried one voice, the old one
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Speaker 1: cried another. Aye aye, mates, said long John, who was
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Speaker 1: standing by with his crutch under his arm, and at
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Speaker 1: once broke out in the air and words I knew
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Speaker 1: so well. Fifteen men on a dead man's chest. And
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Speaker 1: then the whole crew bore chorus, yoho ho, and a
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Speaker 1: bottle of rum, and at the third hoe drove the
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Speaker 1: bars before them with a will. Even at that exciting moment,
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Speaker 1: it carried me back to the old admiral benbow in
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Speaker 1: a second, and I seemed to hear the voice of
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Speaker 1: the captain piping in the chorus. But soon the anchor
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Speaker 1: was short up. Soon it was hanging, dripping at the bows.
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Speaker 1: Soon the sails began to draw, and the land and
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Speaker 1: shipping to flit by on either side. And before I
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Speaker 1: could lie down to snatch an hour of slumber, the
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Speaker 1: Hispaniola began her voyage to the Isle of Treasure. I
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Speaker 1: am not going to relate the voyage in detail. It
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Speaker 1: was fairly prosperous. The ship proved to be a good ship,
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Speaker 1: and the crew were capable seamen, and the captain thoroughly
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Speaker 1: understood his business. But before we came the length of
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Speaker 1: Treasure Island, two or three things had happened which require
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Speaker 1: to be known. Mister Arrow, first of all, turned out
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Speaker 1: even worse than the captain had feared. He had no
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Speaker 1: command among the men, and people did what they pleased
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Speaker 1: with him. But that was by no means the worst
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Speaker 1: of it. For after a day or two at sea,
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Speaker 1: he began to appear on deck with hazy eye, red cheeks,
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Speaker 1: stuttering tongue, and other marks of drunkenness. Time after time
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Speaker 1: he was ordered below in disgrace. Sometimes he fell and
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Speaker 1: cut himself. Sometimes he lay all day long in his
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Speaker 1: little bunk at one side of the companion. Sometimes for
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Speaker 1: a day or two he would be almost sober and
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Speaker 1: attend to his work at least passably. In the meantime,
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Speaker 1: we could never make out where he got the drink.
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Speaker 1: That was the ship's mystery. Watch him as we pleased,
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Speaker 1: we could do nothing to solve it, And when we
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Speaker 1: asked him to his face, he would only laugh if
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Speaker 1: he were drunk, and if he were sober, deny solemnly
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Speaker 1: that he ever tasted anything but water. He was not
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Speaker 1: only useless as an officer, and a bad influence among
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Speaker 1: the men, but it was plain that at this rate
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Speaker 1: he must soon kill himself outright. So nobody was much
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Speaker 1: surprised nor very sorry when one dark night, with a
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Speaker 1: head sea, he disappeared entirely and was seen no more
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Speaker 1: Overbold said the captain, Well, gentlemen, that saves the trouble
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Speaker 1: of putting him in irons. And there we were without
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Speaker 1: a mate, and it was necessary, of course to advance
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Speaker 1: one of the men the bo'sun job Anderson was the
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Speaker 1: likeliest man aboard, and though he kept his old title,
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Speaker 1: he served in a way as mate. Mister Trelawney had
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Speaker 1: followed the sea, and his knowledge made him very useful,
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Speaker 1: for often he took a watch himself in easy weather,
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Speaker 1: and the Coxs and israel Hands was a careful, wily,
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Speaker 1: old experienced seaman who could be trusted at a pinch
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Speaker 1: with almost anything. He was a great confidante of Long
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Speaker 1: John Silver, And so the mention of his name leads
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Speaker 1: me on to speak of our ship's cook, Barbecue, as
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Speaker 1: the men called him. Aboard ship, he carried his crutch
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Speaker 1: by a lanyard around his neck to have both hands
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Speaker 1: as free as possible. It was something to see him
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Speaker 1: wedge the foot of the crutch against the bulkhead and
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Speaker 1: propped against it, yielding to every movement of the ship,
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Speaker 1: get on with his cooking like some one safe ashore.
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Speaker 1: Still more strange was it to see him, in the
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Speaker 1: heaviest of weather, crossed the deck. He had a line
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Speaker 1: or two rigged up to help him across the widest spaces,
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Speaker 1: long John's ear rings, they were called, and he would
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Speaker 1: hand himself from one place to another, now using the crutch,
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Speaker 1: now trailing it alongside by the lanyard, as quickly as
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Speaker 1: another man could walk. Yet some of the men who
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Speaker 1: had sailed with him before expressed their pity to see
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Speaker 1: him so reduced. He's no common man, Barbecue, said the
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Speaker 1: coxswain to me. He had a good schooling in his
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Speaker 1: young days, and can speak like a book when he
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Speaker 1: so minded and brave. A lion's nothin longside of Long John.
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Speaker 1: I've seen him grapple four and knock their heads together
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Speaker 1: him unarmed. All the crew respected and even obeyed him.
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Speaker 1: He had a way of talking to each and doing
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Speaker 1: everybody some particular service. To me. He was unweariedly kind,
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Speaker 1: and always glad to see me in the galley, which
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Speaker 1: he kept as clean as a new pin, the dishes
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Speaker 1: hanging up burnished, and his parrot in a cage in
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Speaker 1: the corner. Come away, young Hawkins, he would say, Come
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Speaker 1: and have a yarn with John. Nobody more welcome than yourself,
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Speaker 1: my son. Sit you down and hear the news. Here's
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Speaker 1: cap'n Flint. I cause my parrot cap'n Flint, after the
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Speaker 1: famous buccaneer, here's cap'n Flint, predicting success to our voyage,
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Speaker 1: wasn't your cap'n? And the parrot would say, with great rapidity,
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Speaker 1: pieces of eight, pieces of eight, pieces of eight, till
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Speaker 1: you wondered that it was not out of breath, till
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Speaker 1: John threw his handkerchief over the cage. Now that bird,
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Speaker 1: he would say, is maybe two hundred years old, Hawkins.
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Speaker 1: They live forever mostly, and if anybody see more wickedness,
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Speaker 1: it must be the devil himself. She's sailed with England,
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Speaker 1: the great cop in England the Pirate. She's been at Madagascar,
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Speaker 1: and at Malabar, and Suriname, and Providence and Port of Bellow.
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Speaker 1: She was at the fishing up of the wrecked plate ships.
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Speaker 1: It's there she learned pieces of eight and Little Wonder
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Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty thousand off of markins. She was
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Speaker 1: at the boarding of the Voice roy of the Indies
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Speaker 1: out of Goa. She was, And to look at her
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Speaker 1: you would think she was a babby. But you smelt powder,
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Speaker 1: didn't you, Captain stand by to go about. The parrot
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Speaker 1: would scream, Ah, she's antsome craft she is, The cook
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Speaker 1: would say, and give her sugar from his pocket, And
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Speaker 1: then the bird would peck at the bars and swear
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Speaker 1: straight on, passing belief for wickedness. There, John would add,
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Speaker 1: you can't pitch a nut be mucked. Lad, here's the
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Speaker 1: poor old, innocent bird of mine, swear in blue fire,
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Speaker 1: and none the wiser you made. Later that she would
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Speaker 1: swear the same in a manner a speaking before the chaplain,
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Speaker 1: and John would touch his forelock with a solemn way
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Speaker 1: he had that made me think he was the best
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Speaker 1: of men. In the meantime, the Squire and Captain Smollett
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Speaker 1: were still on pretty distant terms with one another. The
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Speaker 1: Squire made no bones about the matter. He despised the captain.
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Speaker 1: The captain, on his part, never spoke but when he
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Speaker 1: was spoken to, and then sharp and short and dry,
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Speaker 1: and not a word wasted. He owned, when driven into
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Speaker 1: a corner, that he seemed to have been wrong about
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Speaker 1: the crew, that some of them were as brick as
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Speaker 1: he wanted to see, and all had behaved fairly well.
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Speaker 1: As for the ship, he had taken a downright fancy
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Speaker 1: to her. She'll lie a point nearer the wind than
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Speaker 1: a man, as the right to expect of his own
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Speaker 1: married wife, sir. But he would add, all I say
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Speaker 1: is we're not home again, and I don't like the cruise.
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Speaker 1: The Squire at this would turn away and march up
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Speaker 1: and down the deck, chin in air. A trifle more
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Speaker 1: of that man, he would say, and I should explode.
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Speaker 1: We had some heavy weather, which only proved the qualities
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Speaker 1: of the Hispaniola. Every man on board seemed well content,
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Speaker 1: and he must have been hard to please if they
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Speaker 1: had been otherwise. For it is my belief that there
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Speaker 1: was never a ship's company so spoiled since Noah put
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Speaker 1: to sea, double grog was going at the least excuse
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Speaker 1: there was duff on odd days, as for instance, if
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Speaker 1: the squire heard it was any man's birthday, and all
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Speaker 1: was a barrel of apples standing broached in the waist
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Speaker 1: for anyone to help himself that had a fancy never
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Speaker 1: knew good to come of it. Yet the captain said
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Speaker 1: to doctor livesey, spoil forecas or hands make devils. That's
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Speaker 1: my belief. But good did come of the apple barrel,
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Speaker 1: as you shall hear. For if it had not been
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Speaker 1: for that, we should have had no note of warning,
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Speaker 1: and might all have perished by the hand of treachery.
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Speaker 1: This is how it came about. We had run up
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Speaker 1: the trades to get wind of the island we were after.
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Speaker 1: I am not allowed to be more plain, And now
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Speaker 1: we were running down for it, with a bright lookout
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Speaker 1: day and night. It was about the last day of
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Speaker 1: her outward voyage. By the last computation, some time that night,
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Speaker 1: or latest before noon of the morrow, we should sight
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Speaker 1: the treasure island. We were heading southwest and had a
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Speaker 1: steady breeze obleam and a quiet see the Hispaniola rolled steadily,
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Speaker 1: dipping her bowsprit now and then with a whiff of spray.
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Speaker 1: All was drawing a low and aloft. Everyone was in
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Speaker 1: the bravest spirits because we were now so near an
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Speaker 1: end of the first part of our adventure. Now just
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Speaker 1: after sundown, when all my work was over and I
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Speaker 1: was on my way to my berth, it occurred to
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Speaker 1: me that I should like an apple. I ran on deck.
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Speaker 1: The watch was all forehead, looking out for the island.
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Speaker 1: The man at the helm was watching the luff of
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Speaker 1: the sail and whistling away gently to himself, and that
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Speaker 1: was the only sound, excepting the swish of the sea
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Speaker 1: against the boughs and around the sides of the ship.
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Speaker 1: In I got bodily into the apple barrel and found
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Speaker 1: there was scarce an apple left. But sitting down there
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Speaker 1: in the dark, what with the sound of the waters
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Speaker 1: and the rocking movement of the ship, I had either
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Speaker 1: fallen asleep or was on the point of doing so,
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Speaker 1: when a heavy man sat down with rather a clash
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Speaker 1: close by. The barrel shook as he leaned his shoulders
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Speaker 1: against it, and I was just about to jump up
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Speaker 1: when the man began to speak. It was Silver's voice,
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Speaker 1: And before I had heard a dozen words, I would
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Speaker 1: not have shown myself for all the world, but lay there,
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Speaker 1: trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiosity.
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Speaker 1: For from these dozen words I understood that the lives
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Speaker 1: of all the honest men aboard depended upon me alone.
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Speaker 1: End of Chapter ten.