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  Speaker 1: Chapter one of Friends and Cousins. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: by Lori Banza. Friends and Cousins by Abbey Farwell Brown.
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  Speaker 1: The Wigwam when after a long winter in the city,
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  Speaker 1: Kenneth and Rose came back to the island, which was
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  Speaker 1: their summer home. They were eager to see all their
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  Speaker 1: favorite places on the very first morning. They both wanted
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  Speaker 1: to visit the bathing beach and the Indian forests, the chasm,
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  Speaker 1: and the private cave. They wanted to know what new
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  Speaker 1: wonders had sprouted in the garden of live flowers, and
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  Speaker 1: how much their little oak tree had grown. They wanted
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  Speaker 1: to see if there were any gear tracks down by
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  Speaker 1: the spring, and if there was still a wasp ness
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  Speaker 1: in a certain spot under the own wall. Besides, there
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  Speaker 1: was the beach tree where Rose had her summer house,
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  Speaker 1: and the theater among the rocks where they used to
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  Speaker 1: speak pieces, and the post office in the hollow Pine,
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  Speaker 1: and a hundred other places which they loved. It was
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  Speaker 1: very hard to choose, but finally they decided that most
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  Speaker 1: they wanted to see the Wigwam in the forest. They
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  Speaker 1: had discovered the Wigwam in the forest by accident one
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  Speaker 1: day last summer, and they had seen it only that once,
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  Speaker 1: for the very next day they went back to the city.
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  Speaker 1: What a pity they had not found it sooner. Kenneth
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  Speaker 1: and Rose could hardly wait for summer to come so
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  Speaker 1: that they could visit it again. It was such a
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  Speaker 1: lovely place in which to play Indian hunter. This first
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  Speaker 1: morning was not a very good one for a walk
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  Speaker 1: in the woods. It was gray and misty, threatening rain
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  Speaker 1: before night, but the children were not going to postpone
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  Speaker 1: their plans on that account. Kenneth put on his Indian
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  Speaker 1: suit and took his bow and arrows. Rose wore her
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  Speaker 1: moccasins and wampum belt. Kenneth was sure that he remembered
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  Speaker 1: the way to the Wigwam, although it was a long
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  Speaker 1: distance and he had gone But once the forest came
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  Speaker 1: close to the back door of Sweet Briar Cottage, and
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  Speaker 1: the children entered it by the same path up which
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  Speaker 1: the little prouts came every day to bring the milk. Presently,
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  Speaker 1: they came to another path which branched to the right.
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  Speaker 1: This one was very narrow and indistinct, difficult to follow
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  Speaker 1: even in bright sunlight, but Kenneth remembered it well. Soon
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  Speaker 1: they were in the midst of the dim gray green forest.
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  Speaker 1: The trees were so thick that there was little sunshine here,
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  Speaker 1: even on a pleasant day. They trotted happily along their feet,
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  Speaker 1: crunching the dry twigs and bringing on the elastic moss.
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  Speaker 1: How good it seemed to feel the pine needles underfoot
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  Speaker 1: instead of brick sidewalks and asphalt. The path grew fainter
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  Speaker 1: and fainter. It wavered and branched and straight off in
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  Speaker 1: every direction, as if it were not quite sure which
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  Speaker 1: way to go, But Kenneth seemed to know where to turn,
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  Speaker 1: just as Indian hunters always do. Rose thought him wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: She did not remember anything at all except the greenness
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  Speaker 1: of the moss and ferns, and the brownness of the
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  Speaker 1: tree trunks. On they went farther and farther. I think
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  Speaker 1: we're almost there now, said Kenneth. At last, I remember
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  Speaker 1: that old dead pine, don't you, Rose, No, said Rose, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember, but I do think we must be
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  Speaker 1: almost there. It seems a long, long way, But when
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  Speaker 1: they came into the open space beyond the pine tree,
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  Speaker 1: there was no wigwam waiting them. Kenneth looked surprised. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it must be just a little farther, he said, and
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  Speaker 1: they trudged on. It was growing darker and darker in
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  Speaker 1: the forest. A gray veil seemed to be drying around them,
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  Speaker 1: hiding the way. Rose shivered. I wish I had worn
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  Speaker 1: my coat, she said. I think it is going to rain. Kenneth,
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  Speaker 1: don't you think we had better go home? No, indeed,
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  Speaker 1: cried Kenneth. We are almost there now. Yes, I remember
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  Speaker 1: that oak tree with the big rock beside it. I
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  Speaker 1: am sure we are there now. And he brushed eagerly
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  Speaker 1: through the bushes. But when they passed the oak tree
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  Speaker 1: there was no wigwam. Rose shook her curls uneasily. I
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  Speaker 1: want to go home, she said. It isn't nice in
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  Speaker 1: the forest when there is no sunshine. The trees are
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  Speaker 1: full of gray smoke. I wish we had waited for
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  Speaker 1: a sunny day. It isn't smoke, it is fog, said Kenneth.
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  Speaker 1: And I am sure that this was the place, But
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  Speaker 1: the wigwam is gone. Somebody must have pulled it down.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps the Indians themselves came back. Rose looked over her
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  Speaker 1: shoulder anxiously. Let's go home, she said, Well, perhaps we
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  Speaker 1: had better, agreed Kenneth. He remembered sometimes that the island
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  Speaker 1: fogs grew so thick that even the fishermen were afraid
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  Speaker 1: of losing their way. They turned about and started towards
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  Speaker 1: the little thin path which they had left a few
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  Speaker 1: minutes earlier. But where had the path gone? They could
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  Speaker 1: not find it anywhere. The fog was creeping around them,
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  Speaker 1: so that they could see scarcely ten feet ahead. Kenneth
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  Speaker 1: took Rose by the hand, and together they stumbled on
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  Speaker 1: over the moss and dead branches, but still they found
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  Speaker 1: no path. Every few minutes they would stop and look about,
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  Speaker 1: and then, fearing that they were going wrong, would start
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  Speaker 1: in another direction. The fog grew thicker, and they could
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  Speaker 1: hardly see one another. Kenneth's cap was dewed with heavy drops,
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  Speaker 1: and Rose's curls looked almost as though she had been
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  Speaker 1: in bathing. She squeezed Kenneth's hand tightly. Are we lost, Kenneth,
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  Speaker 1: she asked in a brave voice. No, we aren't lost,
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  Speaker 1: he answered, we know where we are right in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the forest. But I can't remember the way home.
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  Speaker 1: Let us shout. Perhaps someone will hear us and show
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  Speaker 1: us the way. They shouted as loudly as they could, Hello, Hello, Hello,
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  Speaker 1: again and again, but nobody answered. There was not a
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  Speaker 1: sound in the forest. Only cold, damp, gray fog came,
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  Speaker 1: sifting silently everywhere. I wish we hadn't come, said Rose.
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  Speaker 1: Shall we get home before night? I I shouldn't like
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  Speaker 1: to sleep in the forest. There might be snakes. Suddenly
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  Speaker 1: they ran into something like a wooden fence. Hurrah, cried Kenneth. Look, Rose,
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  Speaker 1: here is the Wigwam. Now I told you we were
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  Speaker 1: near it all the time. Kenneth was right there. They
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  Speaker 1: stood in the very door of the Wigwam, which had
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  Speaker 1: been hidden by the fog. They gave a shout of
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  Speaker 1: joy and went inside. Yes, there it stood, just as
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  Speaker 1: they had left it a year ago. There was the
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  Speaker 1: piny roof, the pile of brush for a sofa, the
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  Speaker 1: little heap of stones which had been there place, though,
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  Speaker 1: the cupboard made of a hollow log. Somebody has been
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  Speaker 1: in our house, said Kenneth, like the great big Bear
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  Speaker 1: in the story. Here are some pieces of broken crockery.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody has been sitting on our sofa, cried Rose, like
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  Speaker 1: the middle sized bear, and she has left her shawl. See.
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  Speaker 1: She held up a plaid shawl. It is nice and warm.
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  Speaker 1: I am going to put it on. It is an
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  Speaker 1: Indian blanket, said Kenneth. And look, somebody has been into
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  Speaker 1: our cupboard and has left something to eat. He cried,
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  Speaker 1: like the little wee bear. He held up a pail
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  Speaker 1: full of blueberries, big and ripe and luscious. Rose, it
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  Speaker 1: must be the Indians. Both the children glanced at the
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  Speaker 1: door and shivered. Never had the Indians seemed so near.
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  Speaker 1: It was very creepy here alone in the forest. The
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  Speaker 1: fog might be hiding all sorts of dangers which they
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  Speaker 1: could not see. But soon Rose took courage. I don't
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  Speaker 1: believe it was Indians, she said. Indians don't leave things
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  Speaker 1: already for lost children. It must be the fairies. I
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  Speaker 1: knew there were fairies in this forest. I have told
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  Speaker 1: you so, Kenneth, ever so many times. I am hungry,
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  Speaker 1: and I am going to eat the berries. If the
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  Speaker 1: fairies left them, it will be perfectly safe. Two, said Kenneth,
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  Speaker 1: who did not believe in fairies, but he decided to
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  Speaker 1: help eat the berries. The two sat down on the
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  Speaker 1: pine bow sofa and began to dip out handful after handful,
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  Speaker 1: and the luncheon tasted so good that they spoke hardly
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  Speaker 1: a word for five minutes. The wigwam was as quiet
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  Speaker 1: as before they had come. End of chapter one, chapter
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  Speaker 1: two of Friends and Cousins by Abbey Farwell Brown. This
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  Speaker 1: libribox recording is in the public domain. Indians. Suddenly outside
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  Speaker 1: the wigwam a twig snap. There was, yes, there certainly
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  Speaker 1: was a rustle in the bushes. Steps were creeping towards
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  Speaker 1: the wigwam. It sounded like an Indian. Kenneth grabbed his
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  Speaker 1: bow and arrows rose. Kep very still, but her fingers trembled.
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  Speaker 1: They both sat staring at the door of the wigwam stealthily.
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  Speaker 1: A face came peering around the side of the door,
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  Speaker 1: a dark, reddish brown face with bright eyes. Then another
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  Speaker 1: face appeared, then another. It seemed as if the fog
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  Speaker 1: were full of eager faces and shiny black eyes. It
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  Speaker 1: is the Indians, said Kenneth to himself. At last they
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  Speaker 1: have really come. He lifted his bow and pointed the
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  Speaker 1: arrow at the face of the tallest Indian, But just
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  Speaker 1: as he was about to let the arrow fly, the
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  Speaker 1: head and the doorway moved, and a voice cried, don't shoot,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a friend. Kenneth's arm dropped with surprise, and as
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  Speaker 1: it did so, a figure stole into the tent. Behind it.
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  Speaker 1: Out of the fog crept five other figures in Indian file,
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  Speaker 1: each shorter than the one before it. There were none
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  Speaker 1: of them big or arable. The tallest was about Kenneth's
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  Speaker 1: own height, and the smallest was hardly more than a baby.
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  Speaker 1: Three of them were boys and three were girls, and
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  Speaker 1: the little ones kept behind the others as if they
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  Speaker 1: were afraid. Ho said Kenneth. I thought at first you
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  Speaker 1: were Indians, and he began to laugh. The biggest boy
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  Speaker 1: laughed too. No, we are Indians, he said, shyly. We
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  Speaker 1: are Captain Prout's children from the cove. I am Tom,
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  Speaker 1: and this is Mary. The one with the freckles is Susan,
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  Speaker 1: and the three little ones are Bill and Bob and
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  Speaker 1: Jane the little Prouts, exclaimed Rose, and they all looked
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  Speaker 1: at one another curiously. Although Kenneth and Rose had been
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  Speaker 1: coming to the island for years, this was the first
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  Speaker 1: time that they had stood face to face with their
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  Speaker 1: little neighbors, who brought the milk every morning. The Prout
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  Speaker 1: children had always been very shy. After they had dared
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  Speaker 1: for some time, Kenneth remembered to be polite. How do
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  Speaker 1: you do he said? I am Kenneth Thornton, and this
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  Speaker 1: is my sister Rose. Oh we know who you are,
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  Speaker 1: said Mary Prout. And we knew you came yesterday. We
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  Speaker 1: heard you yell for help just now, and we guessed
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  Speaker 1: where we'd find you. We were right close by. We
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  Speaker 1: were coming back to get the berries that Sue left here.
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  Speaker 1: She stopped abrimptly, seeing the empty pail which Rose was holding.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I am so sorry, said Rose. We have eaten
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  Speaker 1: all your lovely berries, but we thought the fairies had
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  Speaker 1: brought them to us. Then they all laughed and felt
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  Speaker 1: better acquainted. I suppose this is your shawl too, asked Rose,
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  Speaker 1: pulling it off. Yes, said Mary, but you are very
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  Speaker 1: welcome to it, and the berries too. I am so
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  Speaker 1: glad we left them here. But how did you know
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  Speaker 1: about our wigwams? Said Kenneth. The little Prouts looked at
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  Speaker 1: one another, And why do you see, said Tom. We
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  Speaker 1: thought it was our wigwam. We built it, you know
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  Speaker 1: you built it, interrupted Kenneth and Rose together. We thought
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  Speaker 1: it was the Indians, explained Kenneth. What clever children you are,
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  Speaker 1: said Rose admiringly. The little prouts looked pleased and proud.
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  Speaker 1: The three smallest ones stole out from behind Tom and
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  Speaker 1: Mary and Sue and stood in a half circle around
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  Speaker 1: Kenneth and Rose. Then we had no right to come
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  Speaker 1: here at all, said Kenneth, much mortified. We were very
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  Speaker 1: rude to walk into your house and eat up your
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  Speaker 1: berries and wear your shawl. But we did not know,
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  Speaker 1: come Rose, and he started for the door. Oh please
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  Speaker 1: don't go, begged Tom and Mary together, and Susan and
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  Speaker 1: Bill and Bob and Jane said please don't go. Won't
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  Speaker 1: you stay and play Intean hunter the way you did
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  Speaker 1: that day last year? Said Tom eagerly. Why how did
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  Speaker 1: you know about that? Asked Kenneth, in surprise. You were
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  Speaker 1: not here, Yes, we were, nodded Mary. We were right
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  Speaker 1: over there behind the big rock. We watched you all
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  Speaker 1: the time. Why didn't you come and play with us?
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  Speaker 1: Said Rose. It would have been so much nicer with
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  Speaker 1: eight of us instead of two. The faces of the
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  Speaker 1: little prouts lighted up joyously. Oh would you play with us,
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  Speaker 1: said Tommy. We didn't dare then, said Mary shyly. But
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  Speaker 1: now it's different. Susan drew close to Rose and touched
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  Speaker 1: her hand gently. We know about brothers and sisters now,
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  Speaker 1: she said. You told in the letter when you sent
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  Speaker 1: us the box of lovely Christmas things that we are
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  Speaker 1: all like brothers and sisters together because we had one father.
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  Speaker 1: So we aren't going to be afraid of you any more.
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  Speaker 1: You were so kind to us. Oh that's all right,
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  Speaker 1: said Kenneth awkwardly, for he hated to be thanked. We
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  Speaker 1: didn't do anything, but it will be fine to have
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  Speaker 1: a big band of Indians and pirates. Shall we play Indian? Now? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: they all cried, dancing up and down like real little Indians,
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  Speaker 1: and so they played together. Tommy was the Indian chief,
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  Speaker 1: and Rose, Bill and little Jane were in his van.
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  Speaker 1: Kenneth was Hawkeye, the famous Indian hunter, with Mary for
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  Speaker 1: his trusty guide, and Susan and Bob were his scouts.
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  Speaker 1: All that morning, the foggy forest rang with the sound
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  Speaker 1: of war whoops and the shouts of victorious hunters, and
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  Speaker 1: the fights raged about the Wigwam. It was great fun.
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  Speaker 1: The Indian chief knew the woods so well that he
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  Speaker 1: could find his way everywhere, even in the thick fog.
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  Speaker 1: Hawkeye would have had a hard time trying to find him,
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  Speaker 1: but for the service of his brave scouts. As it was,
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  Speaker 1: they had some narrow escapes from being scouped, but they
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  Speaker 1: finally captured Jane Little Injun as their prisoner. By this
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  Speaker 1: time they knew, because of their hungriness, that it must
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  Speaker 1: be noon, so they called the parley with the Indians
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  Speaker 1: and smoked a peace pipe. Susan found one growing in
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  Speaker 1: the forest. I suppose we must go home, said Kenneth
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  Speaker 1: with a sigh. Then his face fell. The fog was
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  Speaker 1: thicker than ever, and he knew that he could never
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  Speaker 1: find his way home. He hated to confess it to
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  Speaker 1: the Indian chief, but Tommy Prout was a thoughtful Indian.
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  Speaker 1: We have smoked the peacepipe, he said. Now we Indians
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  Speaker 1: will go with Hawkeye and his braves and show you
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  Speaker 1: the quick trail home and back through the fog. They
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  Speaker 1: went an Indian file, talking and laughing and telling one
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  Speaker 1: another about the things which were so different in the
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  Speaker 1: city and on the island, for the little Prouts were
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  Speaker 1: full of eager questions about the city, which they had
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  Speaker 1: never seen, while Kenneth and Rose were just as anxious
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  Speaker 1: to know what the island was like in the winter.
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  Speaker 1: When they reached the broad path by the back door,
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  Speaker 1: Tommy and the other Prout children said goodbye and started
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  Speaker 1: back to the cove, because it was late and their
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  Speaker 1: father and mother did not know where they were. Goodbye,
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  Speaker 1: said Kenneth and Rose. Don't forget to come tomorrow to
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  Speaker 1: play with us again, added Kenneth. Be sure and bring
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  Speaker 1: your dolls, said Rose to the little girls, and they
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  Speaker 1: shall all play with my alice under the beech tree.
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  Speaker 1: You can imagine whether or not the little Prouts promised
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  Speaker 1: to come. End of chapter two chapter three of Friends
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  Speaker 1: and Cousins by Abby Farwell Brown. This LibriVox recording is
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  Speaker 1: in the public domain. The ant's fire escaped. It was
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  Speaker 1: not quite bedtime, for they had tea early at the island,
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  Speaker 1: so that after the fire was lighted in the big chimney,
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  Speaker 1: the children might have a little hour with the grown ups,
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  Speaker 1: for a game or a story, or for whatever pleasant
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  Speaker 1: thing might happen. Kenneth and Rose ran to get their
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  Speaker 1: fat cushions and put them down in the two corners
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  Speaker 1: of the hearth. Kenneth's cushion was red, and he always
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  Speaker 1: sat on the right hand of the fireplace. Rose's cushion
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  Speaker 1: was blue, and she sat on the left. Papa began
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  Speaker 1: to poke the fire to make it burn more brightly,
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  Speaker 1: for it was not so big and bustling a blaze
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  Speaker 1: as usual. Somebody forgot to fill the wood box. He said,
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  Speaker 1: we need a nice crisp birch log to make the
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  Speaker 1: fire crackle. Who wants to run out to the woodpile
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  Speaker 1: and bring one in? I do, cried Kenneth, jumping up eagerly.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I do, cried Rose, jumping up too. Well, you
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  Speaker 1: both may go, said Papa, And between you I think
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  Speaker 1: you can bring in a good, big one, but mind
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  Speaker 1: not to trip over it. Out they ran to the woodpile,
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  Speaker 1: which was close behind the house, on the edge of
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  Speaker 1: the forest, where Rose suspected that the fairies lived, and
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  Speaker 1: where Kenneth was sure that there were indians. But neither
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  Speaker 1: Kenneth nor Rose was afraid. They were very brave children,
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  Speaker 1: especially by daylight. Here is a nice little log, said Rose.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that isn't half big enough, cried Kenneth scornfully. Let's
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  Speaker 1: carry this one, Rose, this is something like and he
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  Speaker 1: seized one of the very largest logs in the woodpile.
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  Speaker 1: All right, said Rose, and she bravely stretched her little
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  Speaker 1: arms around the other end. They tugged and they tugged,
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  Speaker 1: and they grunted and grunted, and they pulled and pulled,
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  Speaker 1: and finally, after pushing and hauling and rolling and shoving it,
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  Speaker 1: they got the log up onto the bazazza, where it
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  Speaker 1: fell with a big bang. Out came their father and
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  Speaker 1: mother to see what all the noise meant. Mercy, cried
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  Speaker 1: their mother. How could you two children bring in such
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  Speaker 1: an enormous log as that? Aren't your poor little backs broken?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not so very small. I'm ten, said Kenneth, drawing
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  Speaker 1: himself up. And I am seven, said Rose proudly. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: said their father. It is good exercise for them, mamma,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll make them big and strong. Don't you remember
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  Speaker 1: the story about the poor little girl who learned to
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  Speaker 1: carry a cow upstairs, and so the prince married her.
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  Speaker 1: Oh how did she learn? Cried Rose eagerly. Could I
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  Speaker 1: do it? Why you see she carried the little calf
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  Speaker 1: upstairs every day, every day of its life. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: it was growing all the time, so that before she
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  Speaker 1: knew it, the calf had become a big cow, and
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: the little girl was carrying the cow upstairs as easily
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: as you please. Then the prince came along and married her.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: That sounds like one of Van Claire's stories, said Rose.
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  Speaker 1: What did he want to marry her for, asked Kenneth.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Prince's wives don't need to carry cows, do they. Well,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: I forget the rest of the story, said Papa. But
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: there was a reason, a very good reason, indeed, if
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: I could only remember it. There always is a reason
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: for things and fairy stories, isn't there? Rosy Yes, indeed,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: said Rose. But Kenneth sniffed. Papa seized the big log
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: in both arms as easily as the princess did. The cow,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: carried it in and threw it on the fire, which
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: sprouted up with a burst of sparks like a fiery fountain.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: The bark began to crackle deliciously. Rose and Kenneth cuddled
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: down on their cushions, one on each side of the fire,
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  Speaker 1: and watched the little tongues of flame licked the old
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: log greedily. They loved the fire. Usually it made somebody
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: think of a story. Suddenly Rose cried out, oh so
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: loudly that even Kenneth jumped. Rose was pointing into the fire,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: and her forehead was puckered with distress. Why what is it,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: rose asked her mother. Oh, oh, cried Rose again. Oh
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: the poor little ants do look sure enough, the old
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: log must have been an ant's house. The poor little
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: things were creeping out of the holes in it and
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: scurrying wildly about in every direction, seeking a way of
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: escape from their dwelling, which was growing hotter and hotter
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: every minute. The foremost of them tried to climb down
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: the andirons, but these were too hot, and soon they
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: went scurrying back again. They grew wilder and wilder, wandering
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: about crazily, as if they did not know what to do.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Their home was surrounded by flame on every side. Some
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: of them tried to jump down, but Rose shuddered to
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: see the poor things fall into the fire or upon
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: the hot hearth and shribble up into sad little cinders.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: It was too dreadful. Oh, Mama and Pa, but what
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: shall we do? She cried, I cannot bear to see them.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: It is just like a house full of people being
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: burned with nobody to help. Kenneth, can't we do something?
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  Speaker 1: Ding dong, call out the fire engine, roared Kenneth, jumping
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: up and galloping to the kitchen for a pail of water.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Kenneth was always ready for a new game. Water will
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: do no good. You cannot put out the fire without
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: drowning them, called Kenneth's father. I'm afraid the poor ants
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: are doomed. Rosie. It is like a crowded tenement house,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: isn't it, he said to Mamma. The poor little creatures
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: crowded together like people in the upper story windows hoping
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: for a ladder. That is what they need. A fire escape,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: cried Rose. Oh, I must make a fire escape. Quickly
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: she ran to the wood box and seized a long,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: flat piece of wood. This she took for her fire escape,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: resting one end on the rug in front of the
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: hearth and the other on top of the log, which
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: had now caught fire and was blazing briskly. It made
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: a nice little bridge from the burning wood above the
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: hot hearthstone. Almost immediately an ant spied the fire escape
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: and started across the Eagerly another followed him, then another
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: and another, until a constant procession was filing down the
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: bridge toward safety. Hurrah, cried Rose as the first ant
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: reached the rug, but she stopped suddenly look at him.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: She cried, he is going back. Sure enough, Becky was
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: going back to the burning log, and all the other
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: ants were doing the same thing. One after another, they
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: returned up the fire escape, stopping to wave their feelers
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: and make signs to all the ants whom they met
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: coming down. They must have told these lasts something to
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: make them change their minds, for every single one turned
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: about as soon as he was told. Presently, it was
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: plain what they meant. The ants were coming out in crowds,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: and each was carrying something white in its mouth, the
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: ant babies. They are trying to save the ant babies,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: cried Rose, And that is exactly what they were doing. Eagerly,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: the children watched the crowds running down the fire escape
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: with their precious burdens. Faster and faster they came, and
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: the hearth rug was black with them. When Papa took
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: it up gently and carried it out to shake it
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: over the piazza. Railing. How glad the poor little ants
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: must have been to feel the cool grass under their feet.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: They were all saved at last, and it was high time,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: for the log was now one mass of flame. I
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: think you should have a fireman's medal for life saving, Rose,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: said her mother. Oh. I ought not to have a medal,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: said Rose modestly. I only built the fire escape. But
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: every one of those brave aunts who came back into
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: the fire and saved the babies ought to have one. Yes,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: we should call them heroes if they had been men,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: said Papa. They would rather have something sweet than a medal,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: said Kenneth, who knew a great deal about sweet things.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Sure enough, cried Rose, clapping her hands. Mamma, may I
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: scatter some sugar out there in the grass where Papa
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: shook the ants. Her mother said that she might, so.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: I dare say the rescued ants had a jolly banquet
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: that night to celebrate their wonderful escape. But I suppose
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: that the ant babies were too little to share in it.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter three, Chapter four of Friends and Cousins
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: by Abbey Farwell Brown. This lieberbox recording is in the
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: public domain. Beach House right and early the next morning
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: a small procession came up the path to Sweetbriar Cottage.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: It was the Little Prouts making their first real visit
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: to the Thornton children. Tom and Mary led the way.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: It was the second time they had come that morning.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Once before daylight. They had traveled over the same path
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: to bring the milk for Kenneth's and Rose breakfast, but
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: they did not mind an extra walk of a mile
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: or two. Behind Mary and Tom came Susan, holding Little
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Jane by the hand, and after them trotted Bill and Bob.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: The three girls carried each a doll dressed in her
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: prettiest clothes. It was a great event for the little Prouts.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: They were rather frightened when they found the piazza empty
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: and no one anywhere to be seen. They had hoped
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: that Kenneth and Rose would be outside waiting for them.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: That would have made them a little less bashful. They
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: did not know what to do next, so they gathered
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: in a bunch and began to whisper, you must knock
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: on the door. Tom said Mary, No, you do it,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: said Tom, hanging back. Let's all go together. Then Mary whispered,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: looking timidly at the front steps, for she remembered how
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: once she had been frightened at this same place by
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: the ringing of a terrible bell. So all the little
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: prouts took hold of hands and advanced in a crowd.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: But just as they were going to mount the steps,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: the door swung open, and out came Missus Thornton with
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: the baby in her arms. From the window she had
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: seen the little prouts coming. She smiled at them kindly
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: and said, good morning, little neighbors. I am very glad
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: to see you. I suppose you are looking for Kenneth
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: and Rose, aren't you. Well. They are expecting you, and
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: they are waiting down under the beech tree. Come and
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: I will show you the way. They followed Missus Thornton
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: down the green slope, around big rocks and under the
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: pine trees on top of the cliff, until they came
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: to a huge beech tree, the only one on the island.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: This is the place, said Missus Thornton. The little prouts
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: could dimly cease somebody moving about beyond the green wall
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: of leaves, but no one came to meet them. We
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: must let them know that we are here, explained Missus Thornton,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: and she pulled down a branch of the beech tree
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: which was in front of her. On the end dangled
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: a tin horn. This is the way visitors do when
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: they come to Beach House, she said. Then she blew
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: a long blast on the horn. Now a little one
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: for the baby, she added, blowing again very softly. There, Tommy,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: now it is your turn. You must each blow so
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: that they may know how many guests to expect. Tommy
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: blew the horn so loudly that Missus Thornton jumped. Then
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Mary blew, then Susan and Bill and Bob. Last of all,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: little Jane blew, but she scarcely made any sound at all.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: When the echo of all these blowings had died away,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Kenneth and Rose lifted up the branch and looked out. Welcome,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: eight strangers, said Kenneth, bowing very low, making a neat curtsey.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Then they led their visitors in, all but Missus Thornton
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: and the baby, who said they must go back to
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: the house. The little prouts followed Kenneth and Rose into
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Beech House, and a fine house. It was. The great
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: beech tree arched over like an enormous umbrella. On every side,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: the branches came down close to the ground, so that
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: the children were shut in by green walls like a tent.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: This was Rose's summer house, where her dolls lived. Kenneth
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: often played here too. The little prouts stared around them
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: with grins of delight. Beach House was all ready for
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: a party. In the center of the room stood a
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: little table, spread with a cloth and set with dishes
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: for eight people. About it were several little chairs. Over
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: in the corner was another table, even tinier, and sat
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: with still smaller dishes. At the head of this table
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: sat Alice, Rose's best doll, and beside her was Matilda
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: with a broken nose, whom Rose loved almost as dearly
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: as she loved Alice. We thought we would have a party,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: said Kenneth, because this is the first time you ever
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: came to see us, And of course the dolls had
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: to have another party to welcome your dolls, added Rose.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Come Alice and greet your little new friends. Rose brought
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Alice forward, and she shook hands with the three dolls
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: which Mary, Susan and little Jane had brought. Now these
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: were the very saying dolls which Rose had sent to
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: the little prouts in the Christmas box before she had
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: ever spoken a word to Mary or Susan or Jane.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: So Rose was really better acquainted with the dolls and
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: with their dresses, which she had made. Then she was
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: with the proud girls themselves. How do you do? How
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: do you do? How do you do? Said Alice three
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: times in Rose's voice. Come and sit down at the
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: table near my sister Matilda, who has only one leg,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: so that she cannot rise to greet you very conveniently.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Then the Teddy bear was introduced. Rose loved him too,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: but in a different way. He wore a red sweater
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: and a tam O'Shanter cap. He shook hands with the
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: prout dolls very politely and squeaked how like an Indian.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: The little Prouds had never before seen a teddy bear,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: and at first they were afraid of him because they
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: thought he was alive. Rose put Teddy at the foot
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: of the table, as he was the only boy in
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: the party. When Teddy and the five dolls were seated
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: at their table, Rose and the other little girls went
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: back to where Kenneth was showing the boys his camera
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: and his tool chest. Let's play Desert Islands, said Kenneth,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: this is our favorite game. I am Robinson Crusoe, and
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Rose is my man Friday. Let's play. You are the
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Swiss family Robinson, come to have dinner with us. One, two, three, four,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: five six. Yes, you are just the right number. You
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: can be mister and missus Robinson and their four sons.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Isn't that splendid? Rose? Splendid, echoed Rose, clapping her hands.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Mister and missus Robinson, will you and your children please
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: be seated? There were only four chairs, and these were
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: rather small ones, so Kenneth and Tom, Mary and Rose
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: sat cross legged on the ground. Their chins came just
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: above the edge of the table, which made everybody laugh. Now,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: man Friday, said Robinson Crusoe, bring on the banquet. Friday
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: ran to the little cupboard in the corner. It was
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: such a cunning little cupboard that Mary said, Oh, how
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: did you ever think of building one like that? It
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: is so easy too. My mamma used to make them
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: so when she was a little girl, said Rose. She
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: showed me how. See. It is just two bricks with
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: a shingle laid across, then two more bricks on top,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: and another shingle, and up, up, up, as many shelves
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: as you like. I have seven, and they are very convenient.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: We must build one in the Wigwam, said Mary. Yes,
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: that must be your Swiss family Robinson house. If this
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: is our crusoe one, said Kenneth. Then man Friday served
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: the party. There was bread and butter spread with marmalade,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: and there were cookies and chocolate fudge and lemonade in
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: a tall pitcher. It was a very jolly party. Everyone
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: was happy. The Prouts laughed all the time. You see,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: it was their very first party. When the Cruci dinner
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: was over, Kenneth had still more things to show. The
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: prat boys and the girls were just as much interested.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: There was the express wagon in which the provisions had
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: been drawn down from Sweetbriar Cottage, but in places where
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: the path was too narrow, they had been obliged to
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: carry it over the rocks in their arms. Rose told
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: how they had tipped over and wasted one whole pitcher
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: of lemonade. Then there was the ring toss game and
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: the animal circus. How the little Prouts did enjoy the
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: jointed animals, and the clown and the funny things which
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Kenneth and Rose made them do fancy it. The little
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: prouts had never seen a real circus. Kenneth and Rose
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: could hardly believe how anyone could be so unfortunate. But
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: the little Prouts said that they had never been away
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: from the island, and of course the circus never came
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: to the island. It was so far away from everywhere.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Rose and Kenneth said to themselves that, after all, there
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: are some unfortunate things about living on an island. End
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: of chapter four, Chapter five of Friends and Cousins by
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Abbey Farwell Brown. This labri box recording is in the
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: public domain. Mutiny. While the little ones were still playing
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: with the clown, the elephant and the donkey, Mary and
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: Tom went about beach house looking at other things. What
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: a queer flag, cried Mary suddenly, it is not a
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: bit like the stars and stripes. She was pointing to
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: something tied to a stick which stood against the tree trunk.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: It was a flag of black silk, and on it
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: was painted a skull with two bones crossed below it.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Why don't you know, said Kenneth, that is a pirate flag.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: We always use it whenever we play pirates. What are pirates,
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: asked Mary, Oh, pirates are sea robbers, explained Kenneth. They
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: used to sail all around the world in fast ships,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: and they captured others and killed them. Then they took
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: their treasures and buried them in places where no one
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: else could find them. Papa says that perhaps they hid
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: some of their treasure down here in Maine. Did you
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: ever find any pirate gold? Tom? No, said Tom. But
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: I never looked for any. Perhaps if I had known,
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: I might have found it. I'll hunt for it. Someday.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: We'll all hunt for it, said Kenneth. We played buried
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: treasure last summer, said Rose. Aunt Clare showed me how
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: it is a very good game for a sandy beach.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: And I found ten cents. Oh, cried Susan prow eagerly.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Ten cents seemed to her a great deal of money. Pooh,
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: said Kenneth. That was a silly game. We will go
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: and find real treasure, gold and jewels and things like that,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: and we will be as rich as anything. Hurrah, shouted Tom.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Bill and Bob echoed Hurrah. First, will form a pirate band,
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: went on Kenneth. Now there are so many of us,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: it will be jolly to play pirate. I'll be bloody dick, Tom,
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: you can be slippery Joe. We will think up names
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: for all the little ones, an for the girls too.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: The girls will have to play so that we can
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: have a good big band. Of course we shall play,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: said Rose stoutly. We shall be the best pirates of all.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Shan't we marry? And Mary said perhaps when we know how?
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: I say, Tom, you know where the pirate cave is,
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: don't you? Asked Kenneth. You mean the cave down by
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: black Rock, asked Tom. We don't call it though, we
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: call it just the oven. Pirate Cave is a much
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: better name, said Kenneth. Well, Mamma says that we can
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: have a picnic there. Some day we children will all
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: be pirates. An the cave is our den, Papa, an
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: mamma an the baby will be just ordinary sailors with
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: a treasure that's the luncheon, of course, and we will
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: capture them and take them to the cave. Then we
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: will have the picnic. Won't that be fine? Fine? Cried Tom,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: that will be a great game. We all must have
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: black masts like this, said Kenneth, and he clapped to
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: his face a bit of black cloth with two holes
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: through which his eyes glowed fiercely. The littlest sprouts began
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: to scream. Stop that, said Tom If you are going
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: to bawl, you can't be pirates. You will have to
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: go with the luncheon and be robbed. Bill and Bob
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: and Jane were silent immediately. They felt that it would
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: be terrible not to be pirates. Yes, we must all
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: have masks and swords, and red handkerchiefs tied around our
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: necks and turbans, just like real pirates, said Kenneth. See
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: I have a tin sword. I think I can make
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: the masts, said Mary, who had been examining Kenneth's I
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: can sew a little, can't you, Rose? Oh yes, said Rose,
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: thinking of the dolls dresses which he had made. I
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: can sew a great deal, and I can whittle, said
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Tommy prowt. I will make wooden swords for all of us,
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: So can I said Kenneth. I have a jolly jackknife,
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: a real pirate ripper, and he flourished it in the air.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: Who will be the captain? Said Rose suddenly, I suppose
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: there has to be a captain. Oh yes, said Kenneth.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Of course there must be a captain. To tell everybody
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: what to do. You be, Captain, Kenneth, said Rose, who
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: admired her brother more than anything in the world. Kenneth
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: brandished his sword and cried how ferociously, as though he
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: were indeed a pirate chief. Tommy is the biggest, said
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Susan jealously. Yes, Tommy's the biggest, echoed Bill and Bob. Well,
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: I know the island pretty well, said Tom. I can
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: sail a boat too. I guess I'll make a good
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: pirate though I never played the game before. But the
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  Speaker 1: captain ought an know all about it, said Kenneth uneasily.
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  Speaker 1: You know you had never heard about pirates until I
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: told you. Well I know now, said Tommy, flushing. So
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: what's the difference. Do you want to be everything? No?
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  Speaker 1: I don't, retorted Kenneth. Yesterday I let you be the
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Indian chief. Yes, but you are Hawkeye, the famous hunter.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: That was just as good, wasn't it, answered Tom. Well,
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: if anyone else is the pirate chief, I shall not
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: let him wear my sword, declared Kenneth. Stingy, said Susan,
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: A whittle a better one, tom said triumphantly. I'm going home,
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: said Susan. I shan't play unless Tom is the chief.
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  Speaker 1: Go along, then, said Rose, pouting. Little Jane began to cry.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Bill and Bob doubled up their fist and looked very fierce.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Oh don't let us quarrel, said Mary in distress. And
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: indeed it looked as though there was to be trouble
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: in Beech House. Let's go home, Mary, said Tom, sullenly.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: We aren't wanted here any longer. Kenneth stood with arms folded,
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: kicking the grass sulkily. Suddenly there came a tremendous blow
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: on the horn, so loud that everybody jumped, and Rose
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: whispered in blood curdling tones the awful word pirates. But
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: Kenneth soon remembered who he was, and that Robinson Crusoe
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: was never afraid of anything, not even of cannibals. What ho,
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: he called, bravely, What stranger seeks entrance to my house?
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: And he strode to the door, brandishing his sword. Suddenly
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: he gave a whoop of joy. Charlie, he cried, Charlie Carroll,
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: where did you come from? It's a surprise, said another voice,
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: and in came Kenneth, with a boy of about the
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: same age. Who was grinning all over his jolly freckled face.
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  Speaker 1: Rose flew at him rapturous cousin Charlie, She squealed, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: how nice, hello, Rose, the boy said, having a party.
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  Speaker 1: They are the little prouts, whispered Rose. You remember we
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: told you about them. He is my cousin, Charlie. Carroll
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: explained Kenneth to the proud children. I stay, Charlie, why
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: didn't you tell us you were coming? Are you going
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  Speaker 1: to stay? Yes? I have come to stay four weeks,
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: said Charlie. Aunt Mollie asked me. And it was to
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: be a secret. Oh goody, goody, cried Rose, hopping up
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: and down. What fine times we shall have now. I
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: came up on the boat last night with Aunt Claire,
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: said Charlie. Uncle Jack met us at the wharf this morning,
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: and when Aunt Mollie said you kids were all down here,
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: I ran away and came as softly as I could,
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: so as to surprise you. Aunt Claire here too. Oh
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: what fun, cried Rose. You came just in time. Be
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: a pirate, said Kenneth. Oh yes, you will be a
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: pirate too, won't you, Charlie, said Rose, clapping her hands.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: Pirates cried Charlie. That sounds fine. I'll be bulldog bill Hurrah,
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: cheered Kenneth. We are to have swords and masks, Charlie,
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  Speaker 1: and capture a treasure and live in a cave. But
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: we haven't chosen a captain yet, said Rose. Kenneth and
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: Tom both want to be captain, and we nearly quarreled
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: about it before you came. The children suddenly looked very
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: much ashamed. I don't want to be captain, Tom, said Kenneth.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: You'll do it better here. You can have my sword. No,
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: said Tom, I won't take it. You be captain. You
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: know all about the game and I don't. Then Mary
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: Prout had a great idea. You be pirate chief, she said,
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: turning to Charlie. That will settle the trouble. Oh, yes,
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: that is a good idea, cried We will all do
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: as you say, Charlie. Oh I have just come, said Charlie.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: I don't want to be chief. The very first thing
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: I'll agree, said Kenneth. What do you say? Tom? All right,
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: assented Tom. I don't care. He'll make a good pirate
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: I guess of course he will, cried Rose promptly. Charlie
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  Speaker 1: is great fun. Well, I'll tell you, said Charley modestly.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: I'll be captain first, so as to settle things easily.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: But after that we'll take turns Now, let's plan what
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: we will do first, all right, they cried in chorus.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: Then they sat down on the grass and told Charley
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: about the adventure which they had planned before he came.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: And the new captain said it was a very good
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: plan indeed, and that they would carry it out at
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: the first chance. So the tea party ended happily after all,
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  Speaker 1: and a mutiny among the pirate van was averted. End
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: of chapter five, chapter six of Friends and Cousins by
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: Abby Farwell Brown. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: The Pirate Cave. One morning, a week after the tea party,
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: mister and Missus Thornton and Aunt Claire went for a
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: row on the water. They had two large baskets packed
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: full to overflowing with something precious. They also took a
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: stone jug and a coffee pot. It looked like a
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: picnic party. They were very merry, as if they expected
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: to have a pleasant time. And yet it may be
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: that they had some idea of the danger into which
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: they were about to run. For they did not take
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: the baby with them. There was no one in sight
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: when they rode away from the landing. This was strange,
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: for usually there were half a dozen children, more less
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: in that neighborhood. Quite recently, stories had been told about
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: a band of pirates who had been seen prowling about
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: the coast. Was it possible that these ruffians had anything
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: to do with the children's disappearance. Mister and missus Thornton seemed, however,
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: to have forgotten all about pirate stories, and they rode
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: merrily away. Why this might indeed be a desert island,
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: said Aunt Claire, as a rounded point after point, with
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: no sign of a house or a human being. They
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: passed several little coves and cliffs, the bathing beach and
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: the chasm, And presently they came in sight of a
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: large cove with a flat, stony beach. Beyond this a
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: rock extended out into the water like a platform. At
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: the back rose a steep cliff with a black cavity
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: in the center. There is the cave upon that rock,
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: said mister Thornton, as the boat grated on the beach.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: Oh what a splendid place where a picnic, cried Aunt Claire,
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: jumping out lightly. Do be careful not to upset those baskets.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: I am dreadfully hungry already, and I don't want to
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: lose a mouthful of the delicious luncheon which Molly has prepared.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: Mister Thornton helped out his wife and pulled the empty
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: boat up on the beach where the tide cannot wash
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: it away. Now, then said he, I'll take the pail
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: of lobsters and one of the baskets. Mamma, you can
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: take the other basket. Claire, will you carry the jug
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: and the coffee pop? Please forward march to the cave.
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: Aunt Claire began to hum a tune, and they all
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: marched along in time to it, carrying the luncheon carefully.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: But just as they were about to enter the cave,
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: there came a terrible sound, a chorus of screams and
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: shouts and shrill whistles, and a band of fierce and
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: desperate Ruffians came rushing out of the cave where they
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: had been hidden, surrounding the unfortunate picnickers. These desperadoes were
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: very dreadful to look at. They wore black masks covering
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: all their faces except their eyes, and some of them
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: had long black beards. They carried swords and pistols, which
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: they brandished in a very dangerous manner. One of them
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: waved a fearful black flag with a skull and crossbones
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: painted upon it. Pirates gasped, Dan Claire. We are lost, pirates,
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: we are shouted the leader of the band in a
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: terrible voice. What are you doing near our cave? I
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: am Bloody Dick, and you are our prisoners. Hand over
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: your treasure and come along to our captain, Bulldog Bill.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: Then we'll see what will happen to you next. There
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: was nothing to do but yield, for the pirates were
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: eight to three. Mister and Missus Thornton quickly handed over
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: their baskets and the pail. Aunt Clara groaned when she
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: saw these treasures seized by the pirates. Then, after a struggle,
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: she herself was forced to give up the jug and
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: the coffee pot. Bloody Dick and Slippery Joe, the biggest
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: of the band, tied the hands of the prisoners with
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: a piece of rope, while the others danced about, shouting
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: and screaming, more like wild Indians than like pirates. Now
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: come along, growled bloody Dick and step lively, or that
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: captain will make you all walk the plank. Let's walk
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: the plank, whispered one of the pirates, and pigtails to
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: another with long yellow curls. Charlie says that it is
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: like the springboard which the boys use in swimming, answered
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: the curly pirate. But that doesn't sound very terrible, does it, No,
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: the pig tailed one. But perhaps there is something more.
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: The procession marched up the rocks to the entrance of
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  Speaker 1: the cave, led by Bloody Dick, who held the end
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: of the rope which found all the prisoners together, while
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: Slippery Joe guarded the rear. One by one, the prisoners
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: were pushed in, bent almost double, for the opening was low,
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: but once inside they found a high room big enough
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: to hold them all. It was shadowy, but not very dark,
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: for besides the door there was a hole which went
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: up through the roof like a chimney. Oh what a
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: fine cave, cried Aunt Claire, forgetting that she was a prisoner,
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: sh warned Bloody Dick. Kenneth looked so fierce and a
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: tarpaulin hat and long rubber boots with his belt stuck
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: full of fourth of July pistols that Aunt Claire almost
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: trembled silence till our captain speaks, he commanded. There was
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: no captain in sight, but presently there was a sound
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: of scratching, puffing, snorting in the chimney. The pirate captain,
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: like Santa Claus, was coming down from the roof. There
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: was a slip and a rattle of stones, and with
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: a thump, he tumbled into the middle of the cave.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: It was not quite the entrance he had planned, and
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: the first word of the chief was an owl of paint.
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: For a minute he did not rise, but sat rubbing
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: some injured spot upon his person. Then he reached for
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: his sword, which he had lost in the fall, and
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: sprang fiercely to his feet. A majestic figure, Charlie was
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: a tall boy for ten years. The pirate chief wore
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: a great slouch hat pulled down over his mask, below
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: which hung a beard of curly black wool. A yellow
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: handkerchief was knotted about his throat. He wore a red
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: sweater with a skull and crossbones on the breast, fringed leggings,
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: and his belt bristled with knives daggers, and pistol, to
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: say nothing of the huge tin sword, which he brandished fiercely.
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: He truly was a terrible figure. Little Jane trembled and
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: corned close to Sue when he hissed through his teeth. Well,
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: my hearties, whom have we here? Bulldog bill? Thirst for
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: vengeance and for gold? Captain said, bloody dick. These are
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: land lubbers who were coming to our cave. We have
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: captured them and their treasure, which looks valuable. What shall
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: we do with them? Let the prisoners die, said the
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: captain in a blood curdling voice. Let them walk the plank,
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: but we will keep the treasure. With a scream, Aunt
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: Claire threw herself on her knees before the pirate captain. Oh, good, captain, bulldog,
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: she said, spare us. We are so young and innocent.
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: One of us has a dear little baby at home
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: who will feel so sad to lose us. Take our
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: treasure if you will, but spare our lives. Yonder coffee
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: pot is solid tin, and so are the knives and spoons.
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: Let such a prize content you. Aunt Claire pretended to
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: cry so pitifully that the three smallest pirates began to
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: boohoo with sympathy, until Slippery Dick whispered, sh you kids,
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: she's only pretending, don't you know it's all play. Bulldog
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: Bill listened to the prisoner's words but shook his head.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: It is enough, he said. What will you do for us?
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: Besides we will be your slaves, said Aunt Claire, we
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: will prepare your dinner. Still, the captain shook his head.
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: Can't you do something else, he asked. Aunt Claire had
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: an idea. I will tell you a story, she said. Ha,
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: that is good, exclaimed the captain. You shall tell us tale,
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: but it must be one that we have never heard before.
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: If you do this, we will set you free. Give
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: me time to think, and I promise to tell you
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: a tale which you never heard before, said Aunt Claire.
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: Very good, growled bulldog Bill. Loose the prisoner's bonds so
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: that they can prepare our meal, but guard them well
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: so that they cannot escape. Bloody Dick and Slippery Joe
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: untied the prisoner's hands while the other pirates guarded the
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: entrance of the cave. Now, then, said the pirate captain,
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: we are hungry. Let us dine at once. Prisoners prepare
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: the food it is too early for luncheon, said Missus Thornton.
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: But the pirates began to clamor Aunt Claire sided with them.
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: Let them have their way, she begged. Hungry pirates are
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: very dangerous. Besides, I confess that I am half starved myself. Well,
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: we must have a fire, said Missus Thornton, Who will
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: gather wood for the fire. Let the four youngest pirates
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: do that, said the captain. So Jane, Bill, Bob and
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: Rose went out to hunt for driftwood on the beach.
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: Presently they were running in and out like ants, bringing
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: it by armfuls. We must have water, said Missus Thornton,
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: who will go to the spring for it. Let me go,
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: said Sue. No, the jug will be heavy. Let slippery
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: Joe fetch the water, commanded the captain. So slippery Joe
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: went forth. We others will examine the treasure, said the captain.
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: The remaining four, Charlie, Kenneth, Mary, and Sue, sat down
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: on the ground and began to unpack the baskets which
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: had come in the boat. And as they unwrapped one
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: after another of the good things, they smacked their lips
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: and squealed with delight. They were so interested in the
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: treasure they forgot all about their prison. But suddenly they
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: heard a shout from outside the cave. Catch him, he's
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: running away. The pirates jumped to their feet. Missus Thornton
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: was bending over the fire doing things with the coffee pot,
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: and Aunt Claire was taking the lobsters to pieces, But
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: mister Thornton had disappeared. Bulldog Bill and his men rushed
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: to the door, echoing the shout of catch him, catch him.
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: When they were outside, they saw the four other pirates
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: racing along the beach towards the spot where the runaway
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: was disappearing over the top of the cliff. The whole
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: band started in pursuit, leaving Mama and Aunt Claire quite alone,
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: so that these prisoners might have escaped too, had they tried.
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: But they were so interested in preparing dinner that they
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: forgot all about it, just like women. After a long time,
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: the pirates returned, flushed, panting and tired, but without their prisoner.
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: Papa ran so fast we could not catch him, exclaimed
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: rose to her. Mamma, he ran away into the woods
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: and we couldn't find him. Oh, Mamma, I'm afraid now
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: he won't be here for dinner. Rose looked distressed silence.
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: Burleybin said the Captain sternly, this is no fit talk
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: for one of bulldog Bill's bloody bend. My, how good
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: that coco smells? Is dinner almost ready, Aunt Claire? I
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: never was so hungry in my life? Can't I just
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: have one little lobster cloth to chew? Aunt Clare had
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: not spread the tablecloth in the cave, for that would
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: have been too dark and too crowded for every one
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: to be comfortable. But the flat rock out in front
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: of the cave made a fine table, with room for
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: every one to sit cross legged around it. In pirate fashion,
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: each person had a big round scallop shell for a plate,
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: with a tin cup of coco beside it, and such
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: a lovely luncheon was spread on the white cloth, as
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: the little crowds at least had never before seen. They
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: all sat down together, prisoners and pirates, and the pirates
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: forgot for a time that they were anything but hungry
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: girls and boys. It is too bad that Papa isn't here,
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: said missus Thornton. Too bad, echoed Kenneth and Rose sorrowfully.
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: But before many minutes they heard a sound of someone
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: scrambling down the cliff close by, and presently mister Thornton
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: himself crept sheeplessly up to the group. Please, mister pirate captain,
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: he said, may I come back to dinner. When I
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: ran away, I forgot about Aunt Claire's story. I don't
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: mind starving to death, as I came very near doing
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: on this desert island. But I cannot bear to lose
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: the story. Let me dine and hear the tale. Then
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: I will walk the plank gladly. Have you any ransom,
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: asked the pirate chief, Taking a huge bite of sandwich.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: Mister Thornton slapped his pockets doubtfully. Then his face brightened. Yes,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: I do happen to have one bit of treasure about
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: me which you did not take away, He said, you
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: forgot I think to go through my pockets. He drew
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: out a bag of peanuts and handed it to bulldog Bill,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: then seized the sandwich in each hand. Fair exchange, he cried.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: The children set up a shout of delight. It is
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: a good treasure, said bulldog Bill approvingly, as he helped himself.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: I would have starved rather than eat them, said mister Thornton,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: with a sad voice. I bought them as a present
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: for my innocent children at home. But since I have
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: fallen into the power of this pirate crew, you must
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: do with them as you think best. Now the pirates
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: knew what it was best to do with peanuts, and
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: they did it. When every one had eaten all he
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: possibly could, the captain suddenly remembered that he was a pirate.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: He put on his tarculine hat, and, seizing his sword,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: said sternly to Aunt Claire, it is now time for
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: the story prisoner again. But beware how you tell us
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: one which we have heard before. If it is a chestnut,
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: you shall die Here's captain, said Aunt Clair. Did you
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: ever hear the tale called the Pirate Horde? No, said
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: Captain Bulldog. I never did. Has anyone here ever heard
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: this tale? And everyone answered no? I thought not, said
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: Aunt Claire. Very good, said the captain. Go on with
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: the story. And this is the story which Aunt Claire
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: told end of chapter six, Chapter seven of Friends and
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: Cousins by Abby Farwell Brown. This libribox recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain. The Pirate Hoarde. This is a story
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  Speaker 1: of Captain Kidd who was, you know, the greatest pirate
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  Speaker 1: of them all in old times. One day this terrible
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  Speaker 1: fellow was cruising about in these very waters with a
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  Speaker 1: ship full of gold and jewels and precious things which
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  Speaker 1: he had stolen. You see, he wanted to find a
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  Speaker 1: new place in which to bury this particular treasure. He
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  Speaker 1: was always hiding things. He buried his different hoards all
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  Speaker 1: along the coast from Maine to Mexico, just as squirrels
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  Speaker 1: hide their nuts wherever it is convenient. You can scarcely
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  Speaker 1: find any place, however, tiny which has not a story,
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  Speaker 1: that Captain Kidd's treasure is buried somewhere near Like the squirrels,
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  Speaker 1: Captain Kidd often went away and forgot about his treasure,
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  Speaker 1: and never returned to dig it up. Well, Captain Kidd
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  Speaker 1: was cruising along this coast with his ship full of treasure.
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  Speaker 1: He had been enjoying great luck on his last voyage.
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  Speaker 1: That means, of course, that a great many other people
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  Speaker 1: had been most unlucky in those days. About the unluckiest
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  Speaker 1: thing that could happen to anybody was to meet Captain
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  Speaker 1: Kidd on the high seas. Pirates were such greedy, cruel fellows.
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  Speaker 1: I beg your pardon. I forgot nearly everyone here as
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  Speaker 1: a pirate, how careless of me. Captain Kidd was a
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  Speaker 1: long way from shore when he ran into a fog,
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  Speaker 1: a thick main fog, the kind the Islanders know so well.
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  Speaker 1: It was so thick that one could scarcely see a
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  Speaker 1: ship's length ahead. All of a sudden, the pirate look
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  Speaker 1: out called to the captain sail ahead, and sure enough,
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  Speaker 1: out of the fog loomed a sailing vessel, so near
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  Speaker 1: that the two bowsprits were almost touching. Now this stranger
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  Speaker 1: was a fishing boat named the Mary Anne. She was
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  Speaker 1: a main fishing boat, like your father's Tom Prowt, and
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  Speaker 1: she was on her way home from the banks with
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  Speaker 1: a cargo of fish. The captain, whose name was Toby,
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  Speaker 1: was frightened out of his wits when he saw the
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  Speaker 1: black flag flying at the mast of Captain Kidd's vessel.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, he knew what this meant. If he were
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  Speaker 1: captured by the pirate ship, he should never see his
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  Speaker 1: home and dear little children again. So he put about,
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  Speaker 1: and the Mary Anne scuttled away for dear life without
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  Speaker 1: stopping to say howdy. When Captain Kidd saw the other
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  Speaker 1: boat go about, he grinned a dreadful grin and said, ho, ho,
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  Speaker 1: you are running away, are you well? That must mean
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  Speaker 1: that you have some precious treasure aboard. Let's after them,
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  Speaker 1: my heart, ease and give them a chase. You see,
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  Speaker 1: he was greedy as well as cruel. Already he had
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  Speaker 1: more treasure than he knew what to do with, but
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  Speaker 1: he longed for more. This was just like a pirate
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  Speaker 1: I beg your pardon, Captain Bulldog, I forgot again. Now
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  Speaker 1: began an exciting chase through the fog. But little Mary
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  Speaker 1: Anne was a fast boat, and for a time she
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  Speaker 1: kept ahead of the pirate ship, which could barely see her,
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  Speaker 1: scudding like a sea gull through the fog. But finally,
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  Speaker 1: poor Captain Toby saw the pirate ship was gaining on him,
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  Speaker 1: and his heart sank alas what could he do? He
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  Speaker 1: thought of his children at home, and the tears filled
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  Speaker 1: his eyes. Suddenly he had an idea. He knew every
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  Speaker 1: rock and shoal in the bay, which was full of
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  Speaker 1: rocks and shoals. He remembered that there must be a
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  Speaker 1: reef close by, a reef which came almost to the
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  Speaker 1: surface of the sea. Until one was quite close, he
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  Speaker 1: would not see it. Hidden by this fog, Captain Toby
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  Speaker 1: steered straight for the place where he knew that reef
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  Speaker 1: must be, straight to a froth of white foam. The
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  Speaker 1: pirate ship followed where he led, and came on, gaining
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  Speaker 1: every minute. Now Captain Toby held his breath. They were
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  Speaker 1: in the waves that broke upon the reef, but the
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  Speaker 1: Mary Anne went safely over without touching because she was
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  Speaker 1: so small, and the big vessel flying the black flag
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  Speaker 1: came close after her crash smash, Hurrah, came a shout
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  Speaker 1: from the Mary Anne, Hurrah, good bye. The pirate ship
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  Speaker 1: was stuck fast on the reef and the waves were
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  Speaker 1: beating her to pieces, but Captain Toby did not wait
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  Speaker 1: to see what happened. He was too eager to get
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  Speaker 1: home to his wife and babies. The Merry Anne disappeared
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  Speaker 1: silently through the fog, scudding towards a harbor mile away,
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  Speaker 1: but there was excitement indeed on board the pirate ship.
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  Speaker 1: The pirates went running to and fro, shouting and waving
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  Speaker 1: their arms. Crazy with fear, they tumbled into the long
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  Speaker 1: boats as fast as they could, without thinking anything about
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  Speaker 1: their treasure. Only of their precious lives. But Captain Kidd
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  Speaker 1: was different. He cared more for his treasure than for anything.
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  Speaker 1: The mate and I will shift for ourselves, she shouted,
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  Speaker 1: Leave my boat. He knew he could not save everything.
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  Speaker 1: There was such a vast deal of gold and silver
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  Speaker 1: and heavy plate in the ship. But he ran to
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  Speaker 1: his own cabin and brought out a little wooden box
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  Speaker 1: bound in iron. It was full of the most precious
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  Speaker 1: treasure of all, diamonds and rubies, and sapphires, and emeralds,
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  Speaker 1: and precious stones of every color. With this chest under
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  Speaker 1: his cloak, he got into the boat, and his mate,
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  Speaker 1: one eyed Pete, rowed him away. The fog was so
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  Speaker 1: thick that they soon lost sight of the other boat.
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  Speaker 1: A storm was rising. The wind blew so loud, and
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  Speaker 1: the waves roared so terribly that they could not hear
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  Speaker 1: any answer to their calls. They had to be very
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  Speaker 1: careful of the rocks and reefs on which the waves
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  Speaker 1: broke fiercely, and they rode on and on for hours
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  Speaker 1: before they found a place where they could land. But
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  Speaker 1: at last they came to a safer shore with an
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  Speaker 1: inlet and a smooth beach. They landed and soon discovered
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  Speaker 1: that this was a very little desert island. This will
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  Speaker 1: be just the place to bury the treasure, said Captain Kidd.
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  Speaker 1: Let us do so before we meet anyone who may
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  Speaker 1: try to take it from us, right, Captain, growled one
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  Speaker 1: eyed Pete. So they dug a hole in the ground
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  Speaker 1: and buried the treasure, heaping a little mound over it.
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  Speaker 1: They knew that they should remember the spot because there
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  Speaker 1: was close beside it a great big rock, split open
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  Speaker 1: and lying in two pieces, side by side, like a
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  Speaker 1: huge book, spread flat upon its back. Captain Kidd wrote
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  Speaker 1: down in his notebook a description of the place, and
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  Speaker 1: as well as he knew how they had come there,
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  Speaker 1: he drew besides a picture of the fog as a sample,
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  Speaker 1: so that he should recognize it again, For he said,
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  Speaker 1: I never saw such fog before in all my life,
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  Speaker 1: which proves that all this must have happened close by
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  Speaker 1: where we are now. Then one eyed Pete said Captain,
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  Speaker 1: A terrible storm is coming on, and I think this
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  Speaker 1: here island is a poor place to be on, for
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  Speaker 1: the waves will roll right over it. Let's row to
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  Speaker 1: the mainland, which can't be far away. So they rode
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  Speaker 1: away again, and after a long time spent in trying
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  Speaker 1: to find a landing place, they came to a harbor
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  Speaker 1: and a village. They pretended that they were shipwrecked sailors,
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  Speaker 1: so the good people took them in and gave them food.
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  Speaker 1: What would they have thought had they known it was
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  Speaker 1: the wicked Captain Kidd who was visiting them. The storm
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  Speaker 1: lasted several days, but when it was over, Captain Kidd
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  Speaker 1: said good bye politely, and with one eyed Pete went
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  Speaker 1: out the first fishing boat that left the harbor. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: discovered who they were. They exchanged passage into the first
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  Speaker 1: vessel they met, and were soon far over the seas.
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  Speaker 1: After that, Captain Kidd lived to have many wild adventures,
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  Speaker 1: and he forgot all about his treasure in the little
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  Speaker 1: iron bound box on the desert island. No one ever
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  Speaker 1: heard of other pirates, who must have been drowned in
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  Speaker 1: the storm. That night. The pirate ship went to pieces,
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  Speaker 1: and some bits of the treasure were washed ashore with
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  Speaker 1: its timbers, and the fishermen's children found them on the beach.
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  Speaker 1: But it is not known that anyone ever found the
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  Speaker 1: Captain's jewels. And I dare say the box is there
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  Speaker 1: to this day. Just think if only one could find it.
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  Speaker 1: Aunt Clare ended her story with a sigh, echoed by
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  Speaker 1: all the little girls. I wish I had some diamonds now,
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  Speaker 1: said Rose wistfully. And so do I, and Rubies, cried Mary.
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  Speaker 1: Is that all? Asked Kenneth and Charlie in one breath.
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  Speaker 1: Is it true? Demanded Tommy? Eagerly, course it is true,
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  Speaker 1: cried Charlie. Didn't you ever hear of Captain Kidd? I
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  Speaker 1: don't know for certain that it is all true, said
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  Speaker 1: Aunt Clara. But it might be there were pirates who
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  Speaker 1: buried their treasure in desert islands. Well, I've heard the
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  Speaker 1: fishermen of this very place tell that there was treasure
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  Speaker 1: buried around here, somewhere. No one knows where it might
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  Speaker 1: be this very same treasure, cried Kenneth. Mightn't it, Aunt Claire.
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  Speaker 1: I suppose it might, she answered, laughing. The boys exchanged
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  Speaker 1: eager looks. They did not say anything about it then,
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  Speaker 1: but they each knew that they were resolved to find
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  Speaker 1: that pirate treasure if it was anywhere near the island.
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  Speaker 1: As for the little girls, they were helping to pack
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  Speaker 1: up the lunch baskets for the released prisoners were now
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  Speaker 1: ready to go home, and some of the pirates were
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  Speaker 1: going with them. End of chapter seven Chapter eight of
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  Speaker 1: Friends and Cousins by Abbey Farewell Brown. This LibriVox recording
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  Speaker 1: is in the public domain Treasure Trove. One morning, about
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  Speaker 1: a week later, three of the pirates, Tom, Charlie and
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  Speaker 1: Kenneth got into a dory and rowed away from the harbor.
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  Speaker 1: It was Tom's own boat, of which he was very proud.
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  Speaker 1: He had spent all his life near and in and
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  Speaker 1: on the water, and he was a splendid boatman. Mister
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  Speaker 1: Thornton was not afraid to let the children go with
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  Speaker 1: him in his dory, but he had made them promise
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  Speaker 1: that never more than two should go with Tom. At
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  Speaker 1: one time, the pirates had with them in the boat
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  Speaker 1: three spades. They looked very sly, as though they were
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  Speaker 1: upon a secret errand Tom was the leader in this adventure,
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  Speaker 1: and he seemed to know just where to go. They
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  Speaker 1: rowed around the point and then straight out into the
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  Speaker 1: bay towards a little rocky island beyond the other islands.
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  Speaker 1: They followed the shore of it until they came to
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  Speaker 1: an inlet with a smooth beach beyond. This is the place,
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  Speaker 1: said Tom, jumping out and pulling up the boat. Come on, fellows.
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  Speaker 1: He raced up the beach, followed by the other two,
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  Speaker 1: and climbed a bank. At the top was a spring
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  Speaker 1: of cool, clear water under a tree, and close be
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  Speaker 1: it was a huge rock. Look at that, cried Tom,
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  Speaker 1: pointing at the rock. What do you think O that
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  Speaker 1: The rock was split into two flat pieces, each almost square,
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  Speaker 1: which lay side by side. It looked like a great
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  Speaker 1: book spread open. It is the very rock that Aunt
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  Speaker 1: Clara told about in the story, cried Charlie. Where's the mound,
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  Speaker 1: asked Kenneth eagerly. Oh, I see this must be it.
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  Speaker 1: Sure enough, close beside the rock and near the spring,
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  Speaker 1: the ground swelled into a mound covered with grass. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: this must be the place, said Charlie excitedly. How did
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  Speaker 1: you ever find it? Tom? Well, when she was telling
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  Speaker 1: the story, I remembered this island, and I thought it
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  Speaker 1: was just the place that the pirates would have come
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  Speaker 1: to first when they drifted in from sea. So I
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  Speaker 1: rode over to look at it. I found the cove
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  Speaker 1: was just as she had said, and sure enough there
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  Speaker 1: was the rock, like a big book. And the mound.
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  Speaker 1: I knew this must be the place. I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: begin to dig it right away, but I thought it
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't be fair without you, fellows, cause you were the
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  Speaker 1: ones to tell me about the pirates. First. Let's begin
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  Speaker 1: to dig now, said Kenneth. Eagerly. Let's, cried Charlie. So
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  Speaker 1: they ran down to the dory and got their spades.
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  Speaker 1: Then they all fell to work. The mound was not
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  Speaker 1: hard like ordinary earth. When they had gone through the sod,
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  Speaker 1: their spades struck something queer. Charlie took some of it
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  Speaker 1: up in his hand. Why it's broken shells, he said.
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  Speaker 1: Clam shells, exclaimed Kenneth, picking up two which were still unbroken.
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  Speaker 1: The pirates must have had clams for their dinner and
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  Speaker 1: have piled the shells on top of their treasure. Oh hurry,
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  Speaker 1: this proves that there is something here, doesn't it. Eagerly
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  Speaker 1: they set to work again. It was amazing to see
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  Speaker 1: what a number of shells there were in that mound.
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  Speaker 1: It was made of nothing else. Down down, they dug
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  Speaker 1: until they had a hole as large as Tom's body,
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  Speaker 1: but still there was no sign of any treasure. Their
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  Speaker 1: spades tossed up broken shells and nothing more. My, those
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  Speaker 1: two pirates must have had a big clam bake all
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  Speaker 1: by themselves, said Charlie, pausing to wipe his streaming forehead.
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  Speaker 1: I suppose Captain Kidd was an awful eater, said Kenneth.
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  Speaker 1: But I say, how could they finish so many clams? Huh?
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  Speaker 1: I could eat half a barrel of steamed clams any day,
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  Speaker 1: protested Tom. Those two pirates were regular cannibals, I expect. Besides,
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  Speaker 1: they were eating on purpose to have shells enough to
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  Speaker 1: cover the treasure. Don't you see? Once more, they fell
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  Speaker 1: to work, and they dug for ten minutes without a word,
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  Speaker 1: but presently, with a sigh, they all three stopped again.
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  Speaker 1: It was a hot day, and this was hard work.
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  Speaker 1: If we find the treasure, we must give some to
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  Speaker 1: the earl, said Kenneth. Of course, agreed Tom. They are
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  Speaker 1: pirates too. The band will all have to share. Let's
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  Speaker 1: give each of the others three diamonds and three rubies,
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  Speaker 1: and three sapphires and three emeralds, said Charlie with sudden inspiration.
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  Speaker 1: All right, agreed Tom and Kenneth, and we'll divide the
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  Speaker 1: rest equally among us. Three added Kenneth. Then they began
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  Speaker 1: work again, but still there was no sign of that
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  Speaker 1: iron bound box. Their arms were growing very tired. They
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  Speaker 1: are almost ready to give it up. Suddenly, Kenneth stooped
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  Speaker 1: and picked up something. Hello, he said, what's this? It
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  Speaker 1: was a small pointed stone, flat on both sides. The
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  Speaker 1: other two boys examined it eagerly. Why it looks like
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  Speaker 1: an Indian arrowhead, said Charlie. But how came it here?
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps the pirate used bows and arrows too, suggested Tom.
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  Speaker 1: That's it, cried Kenneth. I'm almost sure they did. I
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  Speaker 1: remember once seeing an old picture of men fighting with
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  Speaker 1: bows and arrows, and they were not Indians. They must
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  Speaker 1: have been pirates. Hurrah, I guess we are near the treasure.
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  Speaker 1: Now they dug down with new energy, tossing up the
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  Speaker 1: shell earth like beavers. Presently, Charlie stooped. I've found something too,
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  Speaker 1: he said, but I don't know what it is. It
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  Speaker 1: was a curious round stone, hollow and smooth in the middle.
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  Speaker 1: In a few minutes, Tom stooped, Also, here's something else,
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  Speaker 1: he said, pulling out a very long, three sided stone,
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  Speaker 1: roughly sharpened on one edge. What do you suppose this
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  Speaker 1: is Maybe it is an anchor, suggested Kenneth, But it
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  Speaker 1: did not look much like an anchor. They worked for
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  Speaker 1: another ten minutes. Then they stopped for nothing else came
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  Speaker 1: to light. I don't think these are much, said Charlie,
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  Speaker 1: kicking the stone things with his foot. I don't believe
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  Speaker 1: there is any thing else here. These old shells go
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  Speaker 1: down and down to China. I guess the pirates couldn't
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  Speaker 1: have eaten so many clams. You know, let's give it up. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: let's agreed Kenneth, tossing away his spade and sitting down
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  Speaker 1: to rest. I'm tired and I'm not going to dig
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  Speaker 1: any more. Oh, com don't give up so soon, begged Tom.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to work a while longer. Charley looked at
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  Speaker 1: his watch. It is noon already, he said. I'm hungry,
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  Speaker 1: and Aunt Mollie doesn't like us to be late for dinner.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go home. There isn't anything here but old stone things,
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  Speaker 1: and they are no good. The pirates left them, said
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  Speaker 1: Tom doggedly. I'm going to work a little longer. Say
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  Speaker 1: will you, fellows dig for ten minutes more than If
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  Speaker 1: we don't find anything, I'll agree to give it up,
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  Speaker 1: all right, said the other two. Once more they set
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  Speaker 1: to work with tired arms. They dug and they dug
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  Speaker 1: through the dust of broken clam shells, of which there
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  Speaker 1: seemed to be no end, But still there was no
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  Speaker 1: sign of the iron bound box. It was very discouraging.
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  Speaker 1: All they found was a few more arrow heads and
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  Speaker 1: some knobby stones with grooves about the top. They were
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  Speaker 1: hardly worth picking up, it seemed. The boys tossed them
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  Speaker 1: aside in a little heap with the other stone things.
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  Speaker 1: Then they threw down their spades, rubbing their aching backs
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  Speaker 1: and arms. All these pains for nothing. It's no use,
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  Speaker 1: said Charley. There can't be anything here. We shall have
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  Speaker 1: to give it up. It is long after dinner time.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps we shan't get any and they will scold us,
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  Speaker 1: said Kenneth ruefully. Huh, only a lot of old stone things,
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  Speaker 1: growled Tom, kicking the heap spitefully. They aren't worth taking home,
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  Speaker 1: are they? Oh? Yes, we must show them all to father.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps he can tell us what they are, said Kenneth.
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  Speaker 1: Well come on, then, urged Charlie. I wish we had
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  Speaker 1: gone an hour ago. I hate cold dinners. Oh what
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  Speaker 1: a wasted morning, Tom, lingered wistfully. It looks just like
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  Speaker 1: a treasure place, he said, And I felt somehow, as
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: if we should find it here, there must be some mistake. Oh,
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: come on, Tom called the others impatiently, and he hurried
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: down to the beach where they had carried the stone things.
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: Soon they were rowing back to their own island. But
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: they were very silent and sulky all the way. Their
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: treasure hunt had not been a success, and they were
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: hungry and cross. Tom was the gloomiest of the three.
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: He felt that they blamed him for their disappointment, but
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: it had mattered most to him. I wanted to take
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: home a handful of diamonds to marry, he said to himself.
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: How pleased she would be. Then we would all be rich.
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: But I would give the handsomest diamond of all to Rose.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: Mister Thornton was on the beach looking for them when
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: they came in. He had been greatly worried because they
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: had been gone so long, but he did not scold them.
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: When they told him what they had been doing. Tom
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: thought he had found Captain Kidd's hiding place. Papa said
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: Kenneth wearily. It looked just like the mound that Aunt
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: Clare told us about. But there wasn't any treasure at all,
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: only some old stone things and a heap of shells.
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: Stone things and a shell heap, asked mister Thornton, pricking
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: up his ears. What do you mean by that we
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: brought these home, Uncle Jack, said Charlie, pulling out the
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: stone things from under the seat of the dory. Hello,
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: some good Indian arrow heads and sinkers, a stone mortar
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: for grinding corn. And this, why, this is as fine
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: an Indian plow as I ever saw. Which have you
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: found this, boys, cried mister Thornton excitedly. Tom found that,
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: said Kenneth, without any Well, Tom, I must buy this
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: of you boys. You have found a treasure. Indeed, though
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: it is not the kind you are looking for. You
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: must have come upon an Indian shell mound, and I
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: dare say that there are still more things there to
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: be discovered. But come now, you must be half starved.
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: I know Mama and Aunt Claire are very anxious. I
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: dare say Tom's mother is not the worrying kind. Let's
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: all go home and have some cold dinner. Then we
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: will look at your treasures again. Tom, you ought to
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: be proud of your morning's work. I wish I had
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: discovered that shell mound myself. End of chapter eight, Chapter
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: nine of Friends and Cousins by Abbey Farwell Brown. This
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: libri box recording is in the public domain The Box
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: of Candy. Although the boys had been disappointed in the
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: kind of treasure which they had found, the Indian relics
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: proved a real treasure after all. The Next day mister
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: Thornton went over to the island with them, and they
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: brought back a few more stone things from the mound,
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: but nothing so fined as Tom's plow. However, mister Thornton
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: said that there might be other interesting things there which
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: they could dig up when they chose. Mister Thornton was
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: so pleased with the boy's discovery that he paid Kenneth
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: and Charles each two dollars for their share of the treasure,
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: but he gave Tom five dollars to pay for his
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: plow and for first discovering the mound, which had once
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: been an Indian picnic place. He said these relics should
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: be used to start an island museum to match the
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: island library, and perhaps some day they would find other
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: things to make the collection more complete. Tom felt very rich. Indeed,
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: he had never owned There's so much money in all
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: his life, and he could not decide what to do
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: with it. There are so many things which one can
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: do with five dollars, especially if one is a boy,
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: but he resolved not to be in a hurry to
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: spend it. There was a famous professor staying at the
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: hotel on the other end of the island, and one
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: day mister Thornton said to Kenneth and Charlie, boys, I
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: want to take your Indian relics over to the hotel
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  Speaker 1: and show them to the professor. I should like to
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: know what he thinks of them. Shall we get Tom
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: and row around there. Of course the boys were delighted
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: to go. They had not been to the hotel that summer,
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: and usually there were some interesting puppies in the stable.
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: They found Tom in his dory, and presently they were
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: on their way. When they reached the hotel, mister Thornton
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: went to find the professor while the boys started to
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: look for the puppies. But as they went past the piazza,
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: they heard the hotel keeper talking to a group of ladies. No,
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 1: there is not a mosquito on the island. He asserted,
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: that is one of the things of which we are
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: most proud. I will give a five pound box of
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: the very best candy to anyone who will find a
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: mosquito on this island. The three boys smacked their lips.
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: Did you hear that I'd like that box of candy?
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: Sighed Charlie. I haven't had any for weeks. Five pounds
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: of candy all at once, cried Tom. I never had
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: so much in all my life. Oh, I have said
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: Kenneth at Christmas time. My isn't it good? I wish
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: I could find that mosquito. But I suppose no one will.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: There isn't one on the island, is there, Tom? You
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: ought to know? No, said Tom, I never saw one here.
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: I am sure there isn't one. He stopped short with
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: a sudden, wicked idea there might be, though he under
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: his breath. I couldn't buy five pounds of very best
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: candy with my two dollars, could I, Charlie asked Kenneth. No.
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: But Tom could with his five if he wanted to
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: spend the money, so said Charlie. I don't want to
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: spend the money, so said Tom. Almost crossly. But how
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: he did long for that candy. The boys did not
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: understand what made him act so queer. He paid very
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: little attention to the five lovely puppies in the stable,
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: even when mister Thornton came with the professor, who told
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: them how proud they ought to feel because they had
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: found such an interesting shell mound, praising Tom especially. He
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: did not seem to care. All the way home, he
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: spoke scarcely a word. He was thinking of something very
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: different from what the others were saying. When they reached
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: the cove, the boys asked Tom to come and play
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: pirate after dinner, but Tom said, no, I'm going to
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: be busy this afternoon. Are you going to hunt for
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: more treasure, asked mister Thornton, laughing. Tom looked queer but
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: shook his head no. He said, I've I've got an
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: errand to attend to, and that was all he had
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: to say. After dinner, Tom rode away all alone, out
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: into the bay, and he was gone until supper time.
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: When he came back, he pulled his boat up on
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: the beach and fumbled in his pocket. He was looking
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: for something so very small that at first he thought
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: he had lost it. But no, there it was all right.
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: It was a tiny pill box. Tom took off the
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: cover and looked in, grinning to himself. He seemed pleased
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: with his day's work. At the supper table, Tom's mother
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 1: suddenly bent forward and looked at his face sharply. Why Tom,
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: she said, where have you been to get all bitten up?
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: So you are covered with mosquito bites? You never got
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: them around. You must have been over to Mouse Island.
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: There are lots of mosquitoes in the swamp there. Tom
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: turned very red. Yes, I rode over to Mouse this morning.
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: There were two young fishhawks in the nest on the
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: old pine tree, he said, briefly. Did the other boys
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: go with you? Asked his mother. No, I went all alone,
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: he answered, bending his face low over his plate. And
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: then the children began to chatter about something else, for
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: which Tom was glad. The next morning, Tom took his
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: dory and rode around the island to the hotel. When
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: he came up to the piazza, he found mister Smith,
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: the hotel man, talking to a group of ladies, just
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: as he had been doing the day before. Tom took
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: off his cap politely and said, good morning, sir. I'd
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: like to speak with you. Hello, said mister Smith. You
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: are one of the island boys, aren't you. Well, what
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: do you want with me? My hearty Tom drew something
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: out of his pocket and handed it to mister Smith.
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: What's this a pill box, said mister Smith, greatly puzzled.
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: I don't want any pills. All the ladies smiled. There's
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: a mosquito inside, sir, said Tom. I heard what you
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: said yesterday that you'd give a box of candy to
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 1: anyone who would bring you a mosquito, so I found
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: one for you. He's dead, sir, he added reassuringly. As
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: mister Smith hesitated about taking off the cover of the
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: pill box, there was a chorus of laughs at the
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: expression on mister Smith's face, but finally he decided to smile. Well,
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: I am surprised and shocked, he said. I could have
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: declared solemnly that there was not a wicked mosquito on
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 1: this island, but I will wager that this is the
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 1: only one. Better not make any more rash offers, mister
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: Smith said, one of the girls, you may have to
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: pay for more candy than you bargain for. We will
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: all set out to hunt. No, I don't repeat my offer,
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: said mister Smith hastily. But I suppose I must pay
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: my debt to our friends. Here. You come around tomorrow morning, sonny,
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: he said to Tom, and get your candy. I'll send
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: to the city for it by Captain Sackett. Smart boy,
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: isn't he said one lady to another as Tom went away.
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: He has such an honest face. Tom heard her words
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: and his ears turned red. But as he rode home,
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: he thought, triumphantly, how good that candy will be? And
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: he smacked his lips. End of chapter nine, Chapter ten
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 1: of Friends and Cousins by Abbey Farwell Brown. This Libribox
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain the Outlaw. Yes, it
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: was fine candy. Tom thought he had never tasted anything
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: half so good as he took the first nibble, for
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: mister Smith kept his promise, and the candy came safely
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: and Captain Sackett's care, five pounds in a beautiful pink
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: box tied with gold string. Tom was eager to share
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: it with his brothers and sisters and with the other pirates,
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: for he was a generous boy. I'll give them a surprise,
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: he said, chuckling to himself. As he rode home from
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: the hotel, he knew where he should find the band,
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: for Mary had said that they were all going that
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 1: morning to play in the pirate cave. So he did
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: not go straight home, but rode on around the point.
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: He beached his boat before anyone heard him, and ran
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: up towards the cave, giving a loud war Whoop, Hello,
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: where is everybody? He cried? The pirates came running from
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: every direction. Here's Tom, cried Mary. Oh Tom, where have
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: you been? Welcome, slippery Joe, said the chief. Have you
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: had an adventure? I have captured some treasure, said Tom, grinning.
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: Look here, and he held up the box of candy candy.
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 1: A shout of joy arose, and the pirates surrounded him eagerly.
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 1: It's share a like, said Tom. I have eaten only
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: one piece so far. Oh Tom, how good of you,
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: cried Rose. It is real city candy and must have
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: cost a lot of money. Did you buy it with
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: your five dollars? I know, I know, shouted Kenneth. He
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: found the mosquito, didn't you, Tom. Tom nodded yes, I
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: found him and got the prize. What do you mean
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 1: about a mosquito. Tell us about it, begged the pirates.
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: So they all sat down in a circle, each one
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: munching a delicious bit of candy. Well, Tom told about
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: mister Smith's offer, which Charley and Kenneth knew already. I
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: believe there wasn't any use in trying, said Kenneth. You
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: thought yourself there wasn't a single mosquito on the island,
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 1: didn't you. Tom? I know, I thought, so, began Tom,
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 1: but he was interrupted by Susan. Oh I know where
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 1: he found it. She said. He went over to Mouth's
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: Island the other day. There are lots of mosquitoes there.
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: He was all covered with bites when he came back.
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: Oh but that wasn't fair, cried Rose. That was cheating,
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 1: Oh Tom. She put back the piece of candy which
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: she had taken. As the box was passed around the
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 1: circle for the second time, there was a long silence.
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 1: Tom turned red and looked sulky. What's the use of
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: being fussy. I'm a pirate anyway, he said, aren't we
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: all pirates? Charlie and Kenneth looked at each other. Then
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: Charlie spoke, like the chief of the band that wasn't
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: playing Tom, He said, that was a real lie. We
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: aren't going to play that way if I am captain,
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: we aren't going to tell any lies. Here, take your
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: old candy. We don't want any of it. Put it back,
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: he commanded the others, and reluctantly they all did as
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: Rose had done. Ho all right, said Tom, jumping to
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: his feet angrily. If you don't want any I guess
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: I can manage to worry it down. But you are
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 1: awful sillies. I won't belong to your old man. And
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: he flounced out of the cave with a box of
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 1: candy under his arm. So Tom became an outlaw. Tom
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: munched away at his candy all by himself and tried
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: to pretend that he enjoyed it very much, But somehow
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: it was not as good as he had expected. The
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 1: emptier the box became, the less he cared for the candy,
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: which was a very odd thing. Usually, as every one knows,
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: unless one gobbles it all at once like a little pig,
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 1: the candy grows better and better, until when there are
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: only a few pieces left, it is so perfectly delicious
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 1: that one cannot bear to think of its disappearing. Altogether.
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: Before the box was half finished, Tom was heartily tired
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: of it. When the last piece was gone, he took
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: the box out in his dory, threw it overboard, and
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: smashed it viciously with his oar. I don't want to
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: see any more candy as long as I live, he said.
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 1: But this was a week later. All this time Tom
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: had been an outlaw. He would not play with the
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: other children, not even with his brothers and sisters, for
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 1: he thought that they were all in league against him.
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 1: He thought they were all disloyal. He had meant to
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: be generous and share his candy with them, but they
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 1: had looked at it in a different way. How silly
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 1: it was to pretend that he was not playing pirate fairly.
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: Why pirates did much worse things than that. He had
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: never thought till now that it was mean to tell
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 1: a lie. But when he remembered how shocked Rose looked,
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: Tom turned very red. That was the hardest of all
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: to bear, that Roe should think him mean. Tom wondered
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 1: if any one would tell his father and mother, but
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 1: no one did. The pirate captain had made his band
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: promise not to be tell tales. Tom did not know
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 1: this however, and at every meal time he eyed his
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 1: brothers and sisters suspiciously, waiting to see what would happen.
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: His mother said, sometimes, how queer you act nowadays, Tom,
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 1: what is the matter with you? Nothing? Tom would answer sulkily,
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 1: and as soon as he could leave the table, he
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 1: would go off by himself. The pirate band was sadly broken.
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 1: Mary felt so sorry about Tom, who would not let
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: her talk to him, that she stayed at home and
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 1: cried a good deal. Except Sue. The other little prouts
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 1: would not go anywhere without Mary. Sue was the only
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 1: one who went to Sweet Briar Cottage, but Charlie and
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: Kenneth said it was no fun playing pirate without more voice,
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: so they went off by themselves while Sue and Rose
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: played dolls in beech House. Nobody was so happy as
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 1: before that unlucky Mosquito had spoiled everything. All this while
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: Tom had plenty of time to think. Somehow things looked
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 1: different to him now. Gradually he had been making up
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: his mind. One day, he got into his dory and
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 1: rode around the island to the end where the hotel stood.
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: As usual, there was a crowd upon the piazza, with
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: mister Smith in the mist. Tom thought it was the
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 1: largest crowd he had ever seen. He hung back and
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 1: hesitated at first, but finally he screwed up his courage.
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 1: He went straight to the hotel man and stood twirling
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: his cap uneasily. Then he spoke quickly. I have come
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: to tell you, sir, that I didn't play fair about
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: that mosquito. I knew what you said was true, and
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: that there wasn't one on the island, So I went
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 1: over to mouse, where there are plenty, and I caught
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: one there. It was a lie, and I am sorry.
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: I have just five dollars. I guess that will pay
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 1: for the candy. Here it is, sir, and he thrust
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 1: into the hand of the amazed mister Smith the bill
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 1: which mister Thornton had given him to pay for his
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 1: share in the pirate treasure. Hold on, stop, cried mister
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: Smith as Tom darted away. But he soon saw that
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: it was no use for a little fat man like
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 1: him to try to catch Tom, who had the start,
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: so he sat down again, shaking his head. I don't
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 1: even know his name, he said, looking helplessly at the
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 1: bill in his hand, But this relieves my mind. Very much.
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: I am greatly pleased, ladies, that you have this assurance
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  Speaker 1: that our island is without mosquitos. He was a brave
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  Speaker 1: boy to confess before us all, said one of the ladies.
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  Speaker 1: I like his face. I wish we knew who he is,
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  Speaker 1: So do I said mister Smith. I must find out
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter ten, Chapter eleven of Friends and Cousins
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  Speaker 1: by Abby Farewell Brown. This libribox recording is in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain. Gall Rock, Susan and Roe were tired of
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: playing dolls in beach house all by themselves. Let's not
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  Speaker 1: play this anymore, said Rose. Sue. Let us go and
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 1: look for that treasure, the real treasure, which the boys
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: could not find. All right, said Sue. Let's They ran
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  Speaker 1: along the cliff until they came to the bathing beach,
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  Speaker 1: then climbed down to the sand. I know where I
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  Speaker 1: think the treasure is, said Rose. I think it is
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  Speaker 1: out there on that great big pile of rock where
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 1: the gulls are. I have always wanted to go out
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: those rocks, but sometimes one can't go because there is
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 1: water all around them. See we could go now, yes,
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  Speaker 1: said Susan. I never was out there either. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: this stony point of which Rose spoke was called Goll Rock.
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  Speaker 1: It rose gray and jagged out of the sea, looking
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  Speaker 1: like a castle of stone. It was a favorite resting
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  Speaker 1: place of the seagulls. Great flocks of them wheeled and
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 1: screamed around the rocks and settled on them in gray clouds.
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  Speaker 1: There was a narrow pathway of stones which led out
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  Speaker 1: to gold Rock, and on each side of the path
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  Speaker 1: the waves laughed gently. The tide was coming in. Let's
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  Speaker 1: take off our shoes and stockings, said Rose. So they
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  Speaker 1: did now follow My leader, Rose cried, and with much
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  Speaker 1: squealing and giggling, the little girls began to hop from
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  Speaker 1: stone to stone along the narrow path. It was very exciting.
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  Speaker 1: They kept tumbling down, for the rocks were wet and slippery,
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  Speaker 1: and in some places were covered with seaweed, which, as
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: everyone knows, is the slitheriest kind of thing underfoot. Sometimes
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 1: their feet went splash into the pools of water which
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 1: stood here and there on the path, but they did
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  Speaker 1: not mind that, because their feet were bare. At last
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 1: they came to Gould Rock, they climbed up to the top.
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  Speaker 1: My how surprised the seagulls were when the two little
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  Speaker 1: heads appeared above the edge of the rock, and how
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  Speaker 1: fast they flopped away, chattering and screaming hard things about
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  Speaker 1: these uninvited guests. It was too bad to disturb them,
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 1: said Rose, who always meant to be polite to animals
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 1: and birds. But I did so want to come and
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  Speaker 1: see what was on these rocks. Come, Sue, let us
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  Speaker 1: climb down on that other side. This was the side
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  Speaker 1: farthest away from the bathing beach, looking straight out to
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 1: see they scrambled down towards the water, and finally they
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  Speaker 1: came to a great hole, like a well that seemed
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  Speaker 1: to go down forever. Oh, look, cried Rose. I do
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  Speaker 1: believe there might be a treasure hidden in the bottom
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  Speaker 1: of this hole. Doesn't it look mysterious, Sue? Oh yes,
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 1: said Sue. She did not know what mysterious meant, but
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: she thought that it had something to do with treasures. Look,
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  Speaker 1: there are cracks in the side like steps, said Rose.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go down. Oh do you dare? Cried Sue. There
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  Speaker 1: might be something awful at the bottom. Pooh, said Rose.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not afraid. I'm going down, and she began to descend,
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  Speaker 1: fitting her bare toes into the cracks of the rocks.
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  Speaker 1: Sue was afraid, but she followed, for she did not
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  Speaker 1: dare he left behind. They went down for what seemed
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  Speaker 1: a long way, when suddenly there was a funny noise
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 1: below them. Chug went something and it sounded like a growl.
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  Speaker 1: Sue gave a loud scream. Oh, she cried, there is
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 1: something down there, and she began to scramble up. Now
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: Rose did not mind the chug so much as she
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 1: did the scream. Rose hated screams. When Sue cried, oh,
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 1: so suddenly it startled Rose. She jumped, Her foot slipped
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 1: out of its crack, and she fell down. She tumbled,
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 1: bumping herself on the rock as she went. She came
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  Speaker 1: flat on the bottom of the hole with her foot
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  Speaker 1: doubled under her, and she gave a cry of pain.
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  Speaker 1: Oh what is it, called, Sue in a shaking voice
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  Speaker 1: from above. Is the creature eating you up? Oh? No,
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 1: moaned Rose. It is my foot, my f what it
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  Speaker 1: hurts me. I can't stand up on it. Oh. Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Rose was a brave little girl, and she never cried
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  Speaker 1: unless she was badly hurt. But now the pain was terrible. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: if there isn't any awful creature there. I will come
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  Speaker 1: down and help you, said Sue. Presently, she too came,
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  Speaker 1: slipping into the bottom of the hole, but she fell
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  Speaker 1: without hurting herself. There was plenty of room for her
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  Speaker 1: Beside Rose. She found that they were in a little cave,
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  Speaker 1: but it was not a nice one like the Pirate cave.
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  Speaker 1: It was damp and wet and slimy, very cold, with
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 1: the disagreeable smell of decaying seaweed. Sue looked around fearfully
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 1: and shivered. It is a horrid place, she said, I
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: am afraid to stay here. Let's go out Quickly. She
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 1: helped Rose to her feet, but when she tried to step,
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 1: poor Rose screamed with pain and fell back in a heap.
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  Speaker 1: I can't walk, she wailed. My foot is broken. I
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 1: think see it is all swelled up. Sure enough, the
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 1: poor foot was turning the most dreadful color, a mix
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 1: purple and green, and it was twice as big as
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 1: it ought to be. Rose had twisted her ankle badly.
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: What shall we do, said Sue, How will you ever
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: get out? Just then chug came that same queer sound.
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 1: This time both Rose and Sue screamed and looked with
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 1: wide eyes down into the farther corner of the cave,
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 1: which was narrow and dark. They expected to see some
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 1: creature come creeping out, but nothing appeared. What do you
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 1: suppose it is, whispered Sue. I don't know, said Rose,
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 1: but it is dreadful. I want to go home. What
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 1: shall we do? Wailed Susan, beginning to cry. Don't do that,
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  Speaker 1: said Rose. It will not do any good, you know. Oh,
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 1: of course you will have to go home and get
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 1: somebody to come and help me. She shuddered to think
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 1: of being left alone. Go quickly, Sue, and oh, do
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 1: come back as soon as you can. I will, said Sue,
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 1: and she began to climb out of the hole. Rose's
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 1: heart sank as she heard the sound of Sue's feet
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 1: growing fainter and fainter, and she almost called her back,
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 1: but she bit her lip and tried to be brave.
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 1: When Sue called down good bye, she felt her heart
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 1: grow very cold. Indeed, it sounded so far away. Everyone
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: was so far away, and she was alone in that
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: dreadful place with no one to help. Just then chug
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 1: came that sound again. What could it be? There? Surely
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: was something in the cave beside herself. Rose stared fearfully
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 1: into that dark corner, but still she saw nothing. She
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 1: waited nervously for the noise to come again. Then it
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 1: was louder than ever, chug, and this time a little
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 1: splash of water splurted out of the darkness. Was some
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 1: animal splashing there? Why? No, of course, it was a
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 1: little wave coming in from the sea. There must be
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: a crack in the bottom of the cave. Well, that
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 1: was not so bad. Rose almost laughed to think how
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 1: frightened she had been, but her foot gave a twinge
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 1: of pain and she cried oh. Instead. Rose wondered how
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 1: long she would have to stay there. It would take
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 1: some time, she knew, for Susan to run home and
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 1: bring her father back, But already it seemed as if
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: she had waited for hours. Chug came the noise again,
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 1: very fiercely. This time a spout of water splattered across
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 1: the cave into Rose's lap. She did not like this
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 1: and painfully drew herself as close as she could against
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 1: the wall of the cave so that the next wave
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 1: should not reach her. But it did reach her. In
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 1: a few minutes, there came another chug, very loud indeed,
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 1: and with it there was a bang which seemed to
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 1: shake the rock itself, which seemed to shake the rock itself.
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 1: In a second, a jet of water burst out of
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 1: the darkness, splattering Rose from head to foot. She screamed,
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 1: for now she knew what it meant. The tide was rising,
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 1: and the waves were rushing into the crack at the
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 1: bottom of the cave. By and bye, it would be
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 1: full of water, and then what would become of her?
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 1: Then came another chug and a bang on the wall outside,
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 1: and she heard a big wave burst over the rock.
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 1: A second later, the spout of water leaped at her,
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 1: bigger than ever, and at that same time a little
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 1: stream began to trickle down into the hole. From above.
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 1: The waves were dashing across Gull Rock, and soon the
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 1: cave would be flooded. Poor Rose was now thoroughly frightened.
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 1: Once more, she tried to rise and pull herself up
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 1: the well, but it was of no use. She could
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 1: not stand on her foot, and she sank back with
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 1: a moan. Another wave dashed against the rock, and when
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: it trickled away, it left Rose drenched and gasping for breath.
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 1: What should she do. She knew that if something did
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 1: not happen to help her in a few minutes, she
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: should be drowned. Oh why did not Sue hurry? Why
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 1: did not Papa come? Papa, Papa? She cried, Oh, help help.
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 1: I must scream as loud as I can, she thought.
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 1: Sue does not know, She will not think that there
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 1: is any danger yet. Perhaps if they hear me, they
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 1: will hurry. Oh help, help, she cried at the top
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 1: of her lungs. And then something happened. And of chapter eleven,
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 1: Chapter twelve of Friends and Cousins by Abbey Farwell Brown.
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  Speaker 1: This Liebribox recording is in the public domain. The Rescue.
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 1: That same morning, mister Smith, the hotel man, drove up
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 1: to Sweetbriar Cottage. He found mister Thornton sitting on the
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 1: front steps sharpening his knife. Good morning, sir, said mister Smith.
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 1: Do you happen to know a boy named Tom Tom prout? Yes,
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 1: I do, said mister Thornton. Well, I want to see him,
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 1: said mister Smith. I have a five dollar bill that
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 1: belongs to him. A five dollar bill, exclaimed mister Thornton
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 1: in surprise. What do you mean, then, mister Smith told
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 1: him the story of the mosquito and the box of candy.
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 1: What do you think of that? Said mister Smith when
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 1: he had finished. I think that Tom was a brave
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 1: boy to confess before all those people, answered mister Thornton.
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 1: He did wrong, of course, but he made up for
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 1: it as well as he could. Tom means to be
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 1: a good boy, mister Smith. I am sure of it,
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 1: agreed mister Smith warmly. And I want to give him
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 1: a chance to make up for that candy without paying
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 1: me a cent. I guess he will want all his
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 1: money buy and buy for school or for something else.
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 1: I should be glad to help him earn something at
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 1: the hotel. Tom would like that, I know, said mister Thornton,
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 1: much pleased. He is very handy with boats. I trust
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 1: my children out with him every day. Is that so,
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 1: cried mister Smith. The very thing. I'll get him to
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 1: row the ladies back and forth from the yacht. I'd
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 1: like to see Tom. I think we shall find him
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 1: play with the other children, said mister Thornton. Will you
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 1: come with me? You see mister Thornton did not know
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 1: that Tom was an outlaw. The two men went along
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 1: the cliff to beach house. It was empty except for
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 1: the dolls and the teddy bear, which Rose and Susan
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 1: had left there when they went to look for the treasure.
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 1: Then they went on until they came to the Pirate Cave.
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 1: But Kenneth and Charlie were playing there alone. Where is Tom,
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 1: asked mister Thornton. This gentleman wants to see him. I
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 1: don't know, said Kenneth. He doesn't play with us any more,
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 1: added Charlie. Why not, asked mister Thornton. But the boys
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 1: looked at each other and were silent. They were not
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 1: going to tell tales. We know all about the unlucky mosquito,
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 1: said mister Thornton. Tom was sorry and told mister Smith
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 1: the whole story himself. He gave his five dollars to
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 1: pay for the candy. Did he do that? Said Charlie,
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 1: his face brightening. Hurrah for Tom, cried Kenneth. I knew
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 1: he was all right. Hello, there he goes now in
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 1: his story, Tom, Oh Tom. Kenneth waved his hat and shouted,
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 1: but Tom did not seem to hear. He was at
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 1: some distance out in the bay, rowing towards the bathing beach.
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 1: They all shouted and waved, and finally Tom seemed to hear,
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 1: for he looked around, but he did not show any
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 1: intention of rowing towards the cave. Perhaps he still felt
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 1: like an outlaw. He rose well, said mister Smith, as
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 1: Tom disappeared around the point. He knows more about boats
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 1: than a good many men ever learn, said mister Thornton.
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 1: I wonder where he is going. We don't seem likely
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 1: to catch him this morning, said mister Smith. But if
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 1: you see him, I wish you would ask him to
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 1: come over and talk with me tomorrow. Hello, what's this
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 1: down the cliff, scrambled Susan, panting and disheveled. As she ran,
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 1: she shouted something which they could not understand, but when
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 1: she came nearer, they made out the word rose. Rose.
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 1: In an instant, mister Thornton jumped to his feet and
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 1: ran to meet her. What is the matter, he cried,
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 1: turning pale. What has happened to Rose? Presently Sue recovered
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 1: enough breath to speak brokenly. She she phil gasped, Sue,
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 1: she broke her foot. I guess she can't walk. We
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 1: were looking for the treasure in the cave, out on
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 1: the rocks beyond the bathing beach. My poor little Rose,
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 1: gasped mister Thornton, and he started on the run, followed
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 1: by the others. They all ran as fast as they could,
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 1: but it was a long way. Poor Sue, who had
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 1: found it so when she stumbled along going in the
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 1: other direction now, she toiled back again, far behind the others,
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 1: behind even mister Smith, who was short and fat and
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 1: grew very red as he ran. He had to stop
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 1: often and mop his forehead with his handkerchief. But mister
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 1: Thornton never stopped until he came to the bathing beach.
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 1: Kenneth and Charlie were close behind him. They heard him
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 1: give a loud cry when he looked across the beach
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 1: to Goal Rock, where Sue had said Rose was. In
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 1: a minute they saw the reason. Goal Rock was now
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 1: an island, A wide bay of water stretched between the
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 1: rock and the shore, with only a few stones poking
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 1: up here and there on what had been the pathway
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 1: by which Rose and Sioux had crossed. It was nearly
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 1: high tide. As they looked, a great wave rolled in
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 1: and covered Goal Rock with spray. Look at that, cried
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 1: mister Thornton. My little roses out there, Oh, I must
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 1: go to her. And he dashed into the water and
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 1: began to wade along the rocks of the hidden pathway.
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 1: But the stones were slippery and he kept stumbling. You
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 1: can't do it, yelled mister Smith. We must get a boat.
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 1: There is no boat within half a mile, cried mister Thornton,
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 1: in despair. I must try to reach her in this way.
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 1: Just then another great wave came rolling in. It broke
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 1: against mister Thornton's knees. He lost his footing and tottered.
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 1: The pool into which he fell was over his head,
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 1: and he would have drowned if he had not known
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 1: how to swim. The water was growing deeper all the time.
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 1: I must swim, over thought mister Thornton. But even if
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 1: I get there safely, I don't see how I can
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 1: climb up on to those steep rocks. However, I must try.
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 1: Just as he was about to strike out into deep water,
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 1: there came a shout from mister Smith and the boys
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 1: on the shore. Tom Tom. They cried, Hurrah for Tom. Papa, Papa,
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 1: come ashore, cried Kenneth. Tom has rose in his boat.
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 1: Sure enough, Tom's dory was just rounding Gull Rock, coming
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 1: fast toward shore, and in the stern sat Rose, very
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 1: pale but safe. You see. Tom was just passing Gull
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 1: Rock in his dory when Rose gave that last cry
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 1: for help. He had heard it, but at first he
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 1: thought her little shrill voice was only a seagull screaming
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 1: on the rock. But when he heard it a second time,
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 1: cry help, Oh, help, he pricked up his ears. No
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 1: seagull ever spoke words so plainly as that. Tom shouted hello.
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 1: There in answer, and in a moment he heard.
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 2: A voice cry, Tom, Tom, come quickly. That is Rose's voice,
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 2: thought Tom. Surprised, almost out of his wits, he rowed
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 2: as close to the rock as he dared on account
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 2: of the surf.
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 1: Is that you Rose? He shouted? Where are you? I'm
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 1: down in a dreadful cave, Tom said Rose, very faintly.
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 1: My foot is broken and the water is coming in. Oh,
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 1: come quickly, Tom, or I shall be drowned. I guess
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 1: that's so, thought Tom, with a sudden idea. As a
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  Speaker 1: great wave broke over Gull Rock. She is down in
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  Speaker 1: the punch bowl. It's almost high tide. Oh, I must
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  Speaker 1: be quick or we'll both be drowned. Tom had no
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  Speaker 1: thought of being afraid. Rose must be saved if he
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  Speaker 1: could do it. Now he had a chance to prove
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  Speaker 1: what a good boatman he was. He rowed as fast
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  Speaker 1: as possible around Gold Rock to a place where he
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  Speaker 1: thought he could land. It was on the sheltered side
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  Speaker 1: of the rock, where the waves did not break quite
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  Speaker 1: so heavily, but it was difficult enough. He drew up
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  Speaker 1: his boat and fast and it securely. Then he hurried
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  Speaker 1: to the punch bowl, which was the fisherman's name for
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  Speaker 1: that dangerous gave. Tom knew it well. When he came
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  Speaker 1: down the hole, he shouted down anxiously. Rose answered, so
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  Speaker 1: he knew that she was still safe. Down he climbed
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  Speaker 1: nimbly as a monkey. At the bottom, he found the
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  Speaker 1: poor little girl in a pool of water. Oh Tom,
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  Speaker 1: she cried, I'm so glad. Do you think you can
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  Speaker 1: get me out? Of course, I'll get you out, said Tom,
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  Speaker 1: feeling very big. Just then a great wave came sweeping
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  Speaker 1: in and nearly drowned them both. We must hurry, sputtered Tom.
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  Speaker 1: There's no time to spare. Come Rose, you must try
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  Speaker 1: as hard as you can. Rose tried as hard as
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  Speaker 1: she could. Tom lifted and pulled and pushed, and somehow
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  Speaker 1: or other he managed to help her out of that
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  Speaker 1: dreadful hole. Then he half carried, half dragged her over
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  Speaker 1: the rocks to his dory. Just as they were about
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  Speaker 1: to push off, there came the biggest wave of all.
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  Speaker 1: It broke completely over the rock, filled the boat half
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  Speaker 1: full of water, and knocked both the children off their feet.
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  Speaker 1: But they clung together and were not swept into the sea.
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  Speaker 1: If we had been in the cave when that wave broke,
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  Speaker 1: said Tom solemnly, we should both have drowned. Let's get
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  Speaker 1: away before another of those big fellows comes. He emptied
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  Speaker 1: the water out of the boat, lifted rose in, and
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  Speaker 1: pushed off with all his might. The next big wave
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  Speaker 1: leaped after them, bearing gold rock under a heap of foam,
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  Speaker 1: but the children had escaped. The boat was moving through
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  Speaker 1: quieter waters towards the bathing beach. They heard a shout
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  Speaker 1: from the shore, and looking up, saw the crowd of
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  Speaker 1: anxious watchers. There were Kenneth and Charlie dancing up and
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  Speaker 1: down and shouting Hurrah. There was mister Smith, first fluttering
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  Speaker 1: his handkerchief, then using it to wipe his eyes. There
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  Speaker 1: was mister Thornton up to his waist in the water,
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  Speaker 1: waving his arms and calling Rose. Rose, Are you safe? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I'm safe, Papa, cried Rose. Tom has saved me. In
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  Speaker 1: a few minutes, Rose was in her father's arms and
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  Speaker 1: he was hugging and kissing her, calling her by all
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  Speaker 1: her pet baby names. Mister Smith was shaking hands with Tom,
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  Speaker 1: who looked dazed. I'm proud to know you, Tom, he said.
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  Speaker 1: You are a regular sea dog, my boy. We must
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  Speaker 1: have you over to the hotel to help us with
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  Speaker 1: the boats there, tom My lad, said mister Thornton, as
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  Speaker 1: he started to carry Rose up to the cottage where
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  Speaker 1: her sprained ankle could be cared for. I'll never forget this, boys,
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  Speaker 1: he added, turning to Charlie and Kenneth, who stood eagerly
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  Speaker 1: looking on. If you want to see what a real
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  Speaker 1: hero looks like, there he is. You had better write
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  Speaker 1: it down in your pirate log book that one of
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  Speaker 1: your band saved the little girl's life. That is something
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  Speaker 1: for you to boast of. Indeed, I must go home
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  Speaker 1: and get dry, muttered Tom, turning away, much embarrassed. After all,
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  Speaker 1: he was an outlaw, and he knew that mister Smith
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  Speaker 1: understood why. Though mister Thornton might not, Tom did not
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  Speaker 1: belong to the pirate band any more. But when he
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  Speaker 1: turned shame facedly away, Kenneth and Charlie came running up
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  Speaker 1: and each seized him by the hand. Tom, Old fellow,
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  Speaker 1: we are proud of you, said Kenneth heartily. Tom said Charlie,
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  Speaker 1: taking something out of his pocket. Here's my pirate knife.
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  Speaker 1: You have got to be captain now, you are the
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  Speaker 1: best of us all as uncle Jack says Hurrah, shouted Kenneth,
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  Speaker 1: dancing up and down. We have a real live hero
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  Speaker 1: for our captain, and we will do great things. Oh pshaw,
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  Speaker 1: said Tom, turning red but looking pleased he saw that
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  Speaker 1: they no longer thought him an outlaw. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to be captain, he protested. You must you must, cried Charlie,
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  Speaker 1: and Kenneth mustn't he mister Smith, Sure, said mister Smith.
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  Speaker 1: I think he will make a fine captain. But I say, captain,
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  Speaker 1: I hope you will find time to do a little
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  Speaker 1: unpiratical work for me as a plain sailor. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to help with the boats at the hotel. Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: it isn't as exciting as pirting or catching mosquitoes, he
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  Speaker 1: added with a twinkle. But I think you will find
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  Speaker 1: it pays better. Oh, I want to earn some money,
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  Speaker 1: said Tom. Some day I want to go to school
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  Speaker 1: in the city. But if you go to mister Smith's,
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  Speaker 1: you won't have time to play with us, said Charlie,
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  Speaker 1: and Kenneth added, then you won't be our pirate captain. Tom. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: yes he will, said mister Smith. I'll only keep him
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  Speaker 1: a few hours every day when the ladies want to
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  Speaker 1: go sailing. Tom, will you be my sailor man? Thank
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  Speaker 1: you everybody, said Tom, grinning. I will be both if
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  Speaker 1: you want me to. I'll be a pirate captain and
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  Speaker 1: an honest sailor. Here's a little advanced wages to begin with,
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  Speaker 1: said mister Smith, handing Tom the famous five dollar bill.
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  Speaker 1: Tom flushed, Thank you, sir, he said, but would you
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  Speaker 1: mind waiting until I have earned it. I want to
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  Speaker 1: start square this time. Good for you, Tom, said mister Smith, approvingly.
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  Speaker 1: I see that we shall be great friends. And mister
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  Speaker 1: Smith proved to be a true prophet. End of chapter twelve.
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  Speaker 1: End of Friends an Cousins by Abbey Farewell Brown read
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  Speaker 1: by Laurie Vanza