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

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Speaker 1: Part two, The Sea Cook, Chapter seven. I go to Bristol.
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Speaker 1: It was longer than the Squire imagined. Ere we were
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Speaker 1: ready for the sea, and none of our first plans,
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Speaker 1: not even Doctor Livesey's of keeping me beside him, could
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Speaker 1: be carried out as we intended. The doctor had to
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Speaker 1: go to London for a physician to take charge of
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Speaker 1: his practice. The Squire was hard at work at Bristol,
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Speaker 1: and I lived on at the hall, under the charge
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Speaker 1: of Old Redruth, the gamekeeper, almost a prisoner, but full
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Speaker 1: of sea dreams and the most charming anticipations of strange
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Speaker 1: islands and adventures. I brooded by the hour together over
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Speaker 1: the map, all the details of which I well remembered,
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Speaker 1: sitting by the fire in the housekeeper's room. I approached
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Speaker 1: that island in my fancy from every possible direction. I
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Speaker 1: explored every acre of its surface. I climbed a thousand
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Speaker 1: times to that tall hill they called the Spyglass, and
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Speaker 1: from the top enjoyed the most wonderful and changing prospects.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes the isle was thick with savages with whom we fought,
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Speaker 1: sometimes full of dangerous animals that hunted us. But in
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Speaker 1: all my fancies nothing occurred to me so strange and
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Speaker 1: tragic as our actual adventures. So the weeks passed on
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Speaker 1: till one fine day there came a letter addressed to
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Speaker 1: doctor Livesey, with this addition, to be opened in the
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Speaker 1: case of his absence by Tom Redruth or Young Hawkins.
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Speaker 1: Obeying this order, we found, or rather I found, for
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Speaker 1: the gamekeeper was a poor hand at reading anything but
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Speaker 1: print the following important news Old Anchor Inn, Bristol, March
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Speaker 1: one seventeen. Dear lives here. As I do not know
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Speaker 1: whether you're at the Hall or still in London, I
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Speaker 1: send this in double to both places. The ship is
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Speaker 1: bought and fitted. She lies at Anchor ready for sea.
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Speaker 1: You never imagined a sweeter schooner a child might sail
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Speaker 1: her two hundred tons name Hispaniola. I got her through
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Speaker 1: my friend Blandly, who has proved himself throughout the most
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Speaker 1: surprising trump. The admirable fellow literally slaved in my interest.
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Speaker 1: And so I may say, did everyone in Bristol as
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Speaker 1: soon as they got wind of the port we sailed
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Speaker 1: for treasure? I mean Redruth, said I, interrupting the letter.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Livesey will not like that. The Squire has been talking.
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Speaker 1: After all, Well, who's a better, right, growled the gamekeeper.
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Speaker 1: A pretty room go if squire ain't to talk for
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Speaker 1: doctor livesey, I should think at that. I gave up
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Speaker 1: all attempt at commentary and read straight on. Blandly himself
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Speaker 1: found his spaniola, and by the most admirable management, got
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Speaker 1: her for the merest trifle. There is a class of
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Speaker 1: men in Bristol monstrously prejudiced against Blandly. They go the
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Speaker 1: length of declaring that this honest creature would do anything
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Speaker 1: for money, that this spaniola belonged to him, and that
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Speaker 1: he sold it to me absurdly high the most transparent calumnies.
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Speaker 1: None of them dare, however, to deny the merits of
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Speaker 1: the ship. So far there was not a hitch. The
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Speaker 1: work people, to be sure, riggers and what not were
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Speaker 1: most annoyingly slow. But time cured that it was the
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Speaker 1: crew that troubled me. I wished to round up a
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Speaker 1: score of men in case of Navy's buccaneers or the
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Speaker 1: odious French, and I had the worry of the deuce
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Speaker 1: itself to find so much as half a dozen, till
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Speaker 1: the most remarkable stroke of fortune brought me the very
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Speaker 1: man that I required. I was standing on the dark
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Speaker 1: when by the merest accident I fell into talk with him.
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Speaker 1: I found he was an old sailor, kept a public house,
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Speaker 1: knew all the seafaring men in Bristol, had lost his
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Speaker 1: health ashore, and wanted a good berth as cook to
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Speaker 1: get to sea again. He had hobbled down there that morning,
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Speaker 1: he said, to get a smell of the salt. I
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Speaker 1: was monstrously touched, so would you have been, And out
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Speaker 1: of pure pity I engaged him on the spot to
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Speaker 1: be ship's cook. Long John Silver he has called and
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Speaker 1: has lost a leg, but that I regarded as a recommendation,
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Speaker 1: since he lost it in his country's service under the
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Speaker 1: immortal Hawk. He has no pension, livesey imagine the abominable
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Speaker 1: age we live in. Well, Sir, I thought I had
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Speaker 1: only found a cook, but it was a crew I
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Speaker 1: had discovered. Between Silver and myself, we got together in
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Speaker 1: a few days, a company of the toughest old salts, imaginable,
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Speaker 1: not pretty to look at, but fellows by their faces
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Speaker 1: of the most indomitable spirit. I declare we could fight
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Speaker 1: a frigate. Long John even got rid of two out
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Speaker 1: of the six or seven I had already engaged. He
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Speaker 1: showed me in a moment that they were of just
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Speaker 1: the sort of fresh water swabs we had to fear
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Speaker 1: in an adventure of importance. I am in the most
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Speaker 1: magnificent health and spirits, eating like a bull, sleeping like
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Speaker 1: a tree. Yet I shall not enjoy a moment till
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Speaker 1: I hear my old tarpaulins tramping around the capstan seaward Hoe,
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Speaker 1: hang the treasure. It's the glory of the sea that
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Speaker 1: has turned my head. So now livesey, come post, do
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Speaker 1: not lose an hour if you respect me. Let young
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Speaker 1: Hawkins go at once to see his mother, with Red
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Speaker 1: Ruth for a guard, and then both come full speed
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Speaker 1: to Bristol. John Trelaudy p s. I did not tell
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Speaker 1: you that Blandly, who, by the way, is to send
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Speaker 1: a consort after us if we don't turn up by
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Speaker 1: the end of August, had found an admirable fellow for
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Speaker 1: sailing master, a stiff man, which I regret, but in
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Speaker 1: all other respects a treasure long John Silver unearthed, a
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Speaker 1: very competent man for a mate, a man called Arrow.
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Speaker 1: I have a bozen who pipes lives. He so things
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Speaker 1: shall go man o war fashion on board the good
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Speaker 1: ship Hispaniola. I forgot to tell you that Silver is
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Speaker 1: a man of substance. I know of my own knowledge
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Speaker 1: that he has a banker's account which has never been overdrawn.
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Speaker 1: He leaves his wife to manage the inn, and as
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Speaker 1: she is a woman of color, a pair of old
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Speaker 1: bachelors like you and I may be excused for guessing
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Speaker 1: that is the wife, quite as much as the health
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Speaker 1: that sends him back to roving j T. P. P. S.
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Speaker 1: Hawkins may stay one night with his mother. J T.
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Speaker 1: You can fancied the excitement into which that letter put me.
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Speaker 1: I was half beside myself with glee. And if ever
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Speaker 1: I despised a man, it was old Tom Redruth, who
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Speaker 1: could do nothing but grumble and lament. Any of the
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Speaker 1: under gamekeepers would gladly have changed places with him, But
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Speaker 1: such was not the squire's pleasure, And the squire's pleasure
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Speaker 1: was like law among them more nobody but old Redruth
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Speaker 1: would have dared so much as even to grumble. The
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Speaker 1: next morning he and I set out on foot for
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Speaker 1: the Admiral Benbow, and there I found my mother in
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Speaker 1: good health and spirits. The captain, who had so long
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Speaker 1: been the cause of so much discomfort, was gone, where
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Speaker 1: the wicked cease from troubling. The squire had had everything repaired,
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Speaker 1: and the public rooms and the sign repainted, and had
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Speaker 1: added some furniture, above all a beautiful arm chair for
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Speaker 1: my mother in the bar. He had found her a
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Speaker 1: boy as an apprentice, also so that she should not
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Speaker 1: want help when I was gone. It was on seeing
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Speaker 1: that boy that I understood for the first time my situation.
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Speaker 1: I had thought up to that moment of the adventures
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Speaker 1: before me, not at all of the home that I
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Speaker 1: was leaving, And now at sight of this clumsy stranger
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Speaker 1: who was to stay here in my place beside my mother,
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Speaker 1: I had my first attack of tears. I am afraid
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Speaker 1: I led that boy a dog's life, for he was
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Speaker 1: new to the work. I had a hundred opportunities for
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Speaker 1: setting him right and putting him down, and I was
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Speaker 1: not slow to profit by them. The night passed, and
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Speaker 1: the next day, after dinner, Red Ruth and I were
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Speaker 1: afoot again, and on the road I said good bye
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Speaker 1: to my mother and the cove where I had lived
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Speaker 1: since I was born, and the dear old Admiral Benbow,
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Speaker 1: since he was repainted not longer. Quite so, dear, One
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Speaker 1: of my thoughts was of the Captain who had so
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Speaker 1: often strode along the beach with his cocked hat, his
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Speaker 1: saber cut cheek, and his old brass telescope. Next moment
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Speaker 1: we had turned the corner and my home was out
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Speaker 1: of sight. The mail picked us up about dusk at
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Speaker 1: the Royal George. On the heath, I was wedged in
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Speaker 1: between red roofs than a stout old gentleman, And in
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Speaker 1: spite of the swift motion and the cold night air,
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Speaker 1: I must have dozed a great deal from the very first,
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Speaker 1: and then slept like a log up hill and down
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Speaker 1: Dale through stage after stage. But when I was awakened
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Speaker 1: at last, it was by a punch in the ribs,
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Speaker 1: and I opened my eyes to find that we were
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Speaker 1: standing still before a large building in a city street,
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Speaker 1: and that the day had already broken a long time.
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Speaker 1: Where are we, I asked Bristol, said Tom, get down.
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Speaker 1: Mister Trelawney had taken up his residence at an inn
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Speaker 1: far down the docks to superintend the work upon the schooner.
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Speaker 1: Thither we had now to walk, and our way to
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Speaker 1: my great delight, lay upon the keys, and besides the
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Speaker 1: great multitude of ships of all sizes and rigs and nations.
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Speaker 1: In one sailors were singing at their work. In another
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Speaker 1: there were men aloft high over my head, hanging to
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Speaker 1: threads that seemed thicker than a spider's. Though I had
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Speaker 1: lived by the shore all my life, I seemed never
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Speaker 1: to have been near the sea, till then the smell
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Speaker 1: of tar and salt was something new. I saw the
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Speaker 1: most wonderful figureheads that had all been far over the ocean.
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Speaker 1: I saw besides many old sailors with rings in their ears,
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Speaker 1: and whiskers curled in ringlets, and tarry pigtails, and their swaggering,
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Speaker 1: clumsy sea walk. And if I had seen as many
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Speaker 1: kings or archbishops, I could not have been more delighted.
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Speaker 1: And I was going to see myself, to see in
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Speaker 1: a schooner and a piping bowsain and pig tailed singing seamen,
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Speaker 1: to see bound for an unknown island, and to seek
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Speaker 1: for buried treasure. While I was still in this delightful dream,
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Speaker 1: we came suddenly in front of a large inn and
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Speaker 1: met Squire Trelawney, all dressed out like a sea officer
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Speaker 1: in stout blue cloth, coming out of the door with
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Speaker 1: a smile on his face and a capital imitation of
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Speaker 1: a sailor's walk. Here you are, he cried, And the
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Speaker 1: doctor came last night from London. Bravao the ship's company complete. Oh, sir,
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Speaker 1: cried I, When do we sail? Sail? Says he we
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Speaker 1: sail to morrow? And of Chapter seven, Chapter eight, at
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Speaker 1: the sign of the Spyglass. When I had done breakfasting,
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Speaker 1: the squire gave me a note addressed to John Silver
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Speaker 1: at the Sign of the Spyglass, and he told me
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Speaker 1: I should easily find the place by following the line
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Speaker 1: of the docks and keeping a bright lookout for a
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Speaker 1: little tavern with a large brass telescope for a sign.
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Speaker 1: I set off, overjoyed at this opportunity to see some
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Speaker 1: more of the ships and seamen, and picked my way
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Speaker 1: among a great crowd of people and carts and bales,
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Speaker 1: for the dock was now at its busiest. Until I
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Speaker 1: found the tavern in question. It was a bright enough
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Speaker 1: little place of entertainment. The sign was newly painted, the
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Speaker 1: windows had neat red curtains, the floor was cleanly sanded.
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Speaker 1: There was a street on either side, and an open
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Speaker 1: door on both which made the large, low room pretty
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Speaker 1: clear to see in in spite of clouds of tobacco smoke.
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Speaker 1: The customers were mostly seafaring men, and they talked so
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Speaker 1: loudly that I hung at the door, almost afraid to enter.
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Speaker 1: As I was waiting, a man came out of a
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Speaker 1: side room, and at a glance I was sure he
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Speaker 1: must be Long John. His leg was cut off close
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Speaker 1: by the hip and under the left shoulder. He carried
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Speaker 1: a crutch, which he managed with a wonderful dexterity, hopping
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Speaker 1: about upon it like a bird. He was very tall
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Speaker 1: and strong, with a face as big as a ham,
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Speaker 1: plain and pale, but intelligent and smiling. Indeed, he seemed
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Speaker 1: in the most cheerful spirits, whistling as he moved about
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Speaker 1: among the tables, with a merry word or a slap
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Speaker 1: on the shoulder for the more favored of his guests. Now,
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Speaker 1: to tell you the truth from the very first mention
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Speaker 1: of Long John in Squire Trelorney's letter, I had taken
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Speaker 1: a fear in my mind that he might prove to
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Speaker 1: be the very one legged sailor whom I had watched
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Speaker 1: for so long at the old benbow, but one look
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Speaker 1: at the man before me was enough. I had seen
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Speaker 1: the captain and black dog and the blind man pew,
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Speaker 1: and I thought I knew what a buccaneer was like,
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Speaker 1: A very different creature, according to me, from this clean
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Speaker 1: and pleasant tempered landlord. I plucked up courage at once,
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Speaker 1: crussed the threshold and walked right up to the man
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Speaker 1: where he stood propped on his crutch talking to a customer.
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Speaker 1: Mister Silver, Sir, I asked, holding out the note. Yes,
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Speaker 1: moy Lard, said he. Such is my name, to be sure,
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Speaker 1: and who may you be? And when he saw the
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Speaker 1: Squire's letter, he seemed to me to give something almost
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Speaker 1: like a start. Oh, said he quite aloud, and offering
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Speaker 1: his hand. I see you are a new cabin boy.
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Speaker 1: Please do I am to see you. And he took
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Speaker 1: my hand in his large, firm grasp. Just then one
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Speaker 1: of the customers of the far side rose suddenly and
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Speaker 1: made for the door. It was close by him, and
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Speaker 1: he was out in the street in a moment, but
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Speaker 1: his hurry had attracted my notice, and I recognized him
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Speaker 1: at a glance. It was the tallow faced man wanting
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Speaker 1: two fingers who had come first to the Admiral benbow Oh,
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Speaker 1: I cried stop him. It's black dog. I don't care
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Speaker 1: two coppers who he is? Cried Silver, But he hasn't
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Speaker 1: paid his score. Erry, run and catch him. One of
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Speaker 1: the others, who was nearest the door, leaped up and
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Speaker 1: started in pursuit. If he you were Admiral Hawke, he
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Speaker 1: shall play his score, said Silver, and then, relinquishing my hand,
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Speaker 1: Who did you say he was? He asked, black What
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Speaker 1: black dog? Said? I has mister Trelawney not told you
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Speaker 1: of the buccaneers he was one of them, so cried
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Speaker 1: silver in my house, Ben, run and help Harry. One
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Speaker 1: of those swabs? Was he was? That you drinking with him? Morgan?
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Speaker 1: Step up here? The man whom he called Morgan, an old,
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Speaker 1: gray haired, mahogany faced sailor, came forward, pretty sheepishly, rolling
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Speaker 1: his quid. Now, Morgan, said, long John, very sternly. You
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Speaker 1: never clapped your eyes on that black black dog before,
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Speaker 1: did you? Now? Nay, sir, said Morgan, with a salute.
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Speaker 1: You didn't know his name, did you, No, sir? By
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Speaker 1: the powers, Tom Morgan, it's good for you, exclaimed the landlord,
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Speaker 1: if you had been mixed up with the like of that,
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Speaker 1: you would never put another foot in my house. You
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Speaker 1: may lay to that. And what was he saying to you? Oh?
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Speaker 1: I don't rightly know, sir? Answered Morgan? Do you call that? Ahead?
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Speaker 1: On your shoulders? Are a blessed dead eye? Cried long John.
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Speaker 1: Don't rightly know, don't you? Perhaps you don't happen to
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Speaker 1: rightly know who you were speaking to? Perhaps come now?
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Speaker 1: What was he jarring? Voyages? Cap'n ships? Pie up? What
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Speaker 1: was it? He was a talking of keel hauling, answered Morgan.
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Speaker 1: Keel halling was you, and a mighty suitable thing too,
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Speaker 1: And you made late that. Get back to your place
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Speaker 1: for a lubber Tom. And then as Morgan rolled back
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Speaker 1: to his seat, Silver added to me in a confidential
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Speaker 1: whisper that was very flattering, as I thought, he's quite
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Speaker 1: an honest man, Tom Morgan, only stupid. And now he
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Speaker 1: ran on again loud, let's see black Dog. No I
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Speaker 1: don't know that name, not I Yeah, I kind of think, yes, yes,
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Speaker 1: I've seen the swab he used to come here with
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Speaker 1: a blowing beggary used that he did? You may be sure,
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Speaker 1: said I. I knew that blind man too. His name
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Speaker 1: was Pew. It was cried Silver, now quite excited Pew.
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Speaker 1: That was his name, for certain Ah, he looked as shark,
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Speaker 1: he did. And if we run down this black dog
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Speaker 1: now there'll be news for cap'n Trelawney. Ben's a good runner.
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Speaker 1: Few seemen run better than Ben. He should have run
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Speaker 1: him down hand over hand, by the powers he talked
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Speaker 1: to keel Allan, did he I'll kill all him. All
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Speaker 1: the time he was jerking out these phrases, he was
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Speaker 1: stumping up and down the tavern on his crutch, slapping
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Speaker 1: tables with his hand, and giving such a show of
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Speaker 1: excitement as would it convinced an old Bailey judge or
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Speaker 1: a bow street runner. My suspicions had been thoroughly reawakened
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Speaker 1: on finding black Dog at the spyglass. And I watched
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Speaker 1: the cook narrowly, but he was too deep and too
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Speaker 1: ready and too clever for me. And by the time
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Speaker 1: the two men had come back out of breath and
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Speaker 1: confessed that they had lost the track in a crowd
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Speaker 1: and been scolded like thieves, I would have gone bail
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Speaker 1: for the innocence of long John Silver. No see here
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Speaker 1: Harkins said, he here is a blessed hard thing and
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Speaker 1: a man like me, now, ain't it? There is cap'n Trelawney.
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Speaker 1: What's he to think? Here? I have this confounded son
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Speaker 1: of a Dutchman sitting here in my own house, drinking
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Speaker 1: of my own rum. Here you comes and tells me
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Speaker 1: of it plain, and here I let him give us,
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Speaker 1: oh the slip before my blessed dead lights. Now hearkens,
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Speaker 1: you do me justice with the cap'n. You're a lad,
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Speaker 1: you are, But you're as smart as paint. I see
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Speaker 1: that when you first came in now here it is.
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Speaker 1: What could I do with this old Timberoi hobble on?
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Speaker 1: When I was an a b master mariner, i'd a
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Speaker 1: come along beside him, hand overhead and broached him into
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Speaker 1: a brace of old shakes? I would and now? And
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Speaker 1: then all of a sudden he stopped, and his jaw dropped,
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Speaker 1: as though he had remembered something. The score. He burst out,
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Speaker 1: three goes a rub, Why shiver my timbers? If I
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Speaker 1: hadn't forgotten my score? And falling on a bench, he
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Speaker 1: laughed till the tears ran down his cheeks. I could
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Speaker 1: not help joining, and we laughed together. Peel laughed appeal
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Speaker 1: till the tavern rang again. Why what a precious old
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Speaker 1: sea calf I am, he said, at last, wiping his cheeks.
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Speaker 1: You and me should get on well, hawke, for I'll
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Speaker 1: take my davy. I should be rated ships boy. But
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Speaker 1: come now stand by to go about this won't do?
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Speaker 1: Dooty is dooty messmates. I'll put on my old cocktat
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Speaker 1: and step along you to Captain Trelawney and report this
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Speaker 1: here affair. For mind you, it's serious, young Harkins. And
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Speaker 1: neither you nor me's come out of it with what
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Speaker 1: I should make so bold as to call credit nor you.
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Speaker 1: Neither says you not smart, none of the pair of
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Speaker 1: as smart. But dash my buttons that were a good
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Speaker 1: and about my score. And he began to laugh again,
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Speaker 1: and that so heartily that though I did not see
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Speaker 1: the joke as he did, I was again obliged to
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Speaker 1: join him in his mirth. On our little walk along
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Speaker 1: the keys, he made himself the most interesting companion, telling
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Speaker 1: me about the different ships that we passed by, their
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Speaker 1: rig tonnage, nationality, explaining the work that was going forward,
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Speaker 1: how one was discharging another taking in cargo, and a
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Speaker 1: third making ready for sea, and every now and then
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Speaker 1: telling me some little anecdote of ships or seamen, or
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Speaker 1: repeating a nautical phrase, till I had learned it perfectly.
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Speaker 1: I began to see that here was one of the
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Speaker 1: best of possible shipmates. When we got to the inn,
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Speaker 1: the Squire and doctor Livesey were seated together finishing a
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Speaker 1: quarter of ale with a toast in it before they
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Speaker 1: should go aboard the schooner. On a visit of inspection.
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Speaker 1: Long John told the story from first to last with
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Speaker 1: a great deal of spirit, and the most perfect truth
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Speaker 1: that was how it were? Now? Weren't it? Hawkins? He
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Speaker 1: would say, now and again, and I could always bear
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Speaker 1: him entirely out. The two gentlemen regretted that black Dog
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Speaker 1: had got away, but we all agreed that there was
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Speaker 1: nothing to be done. And after he had been complimented,
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Speaker 1: Long John took up his crutch and departed all hands
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Speaker 1: aboard for for this arm afternoon, shouted the squire after him.
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Speaker 1: Aye aye, sir, cried the cook in the passage. Well, Squire,
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Speaker 1: said doctor Livesey. I don't put much faith in your
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Speaker 1: discoveries as a general thing, but I will say this,
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Speaker 1: John Silver suits me. That man's a perfect trump, declared
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Speaker 1: the Squire, and now added the doctor Jim may come
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Speaker 1: on board with us. May he not, to be sure?
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Speaker 1: He may, said the Squire. Take your hat, Hawkins, and
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Speaker 1: we'll see the ship. End of Chapter eight