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Updated: April 30, 2025
Ladies and gentlemen, not to appear to be a hot-air artist, I will tell you in a word, that I have located the tombstone of one William Halliwell, deceased!" Of course. Not once had I thought of it. Bare, stark, glaring up at the sun, lay the stone carved with the letters and the cross-bones.
I hate to be reminded of what I'm built on, and can't bear to look in the glass after seeing a skull, with or without cross-bones. In this second cave, when Mrs. Norton was putting an appropriate prehistoric question I'd coached her up to ask her brother, I linked a friendly arm in Ellaline's, and bore her off under convoy. "What a sweet, illuminated stalactite curtain!" said I, rapturously.
"My dear, I have ordered luncheon spread down there, in that strange garden. It is the queerest place imaginable; and looking up, the effect is quite indescribable." "Have you had the skulls polished for drinking cups, and printed the menus on cross-bones?
With feelings of terror we now observed that the flag at the schooner's peak was black, with a Death's-head and cross-bones upon it. As we gazed at each other in blank amazement, the word "pirate" escaped our lips simultaneously. "What is to be done?" cried Peterkin as we observed a boat shoot from the vessel's side and make for the entrance of the reef.
And as for Pirates, when they chance to cross each other's cross-bones, the first hail is "How many skulls?" the same way that whalers hail "How many barrels?" And that question once answered, pirates straightway steer apart, for they are infernal villains on both sides, and don't like to see overmuch of each other's villanous likenesses.
"Don't it make yer hair stand on end, and yer very flesh creep, Miss Edith, to look at the likes o' that!" And below the coffin there was a ruder skull and two cross-bones. "Them's intended for what I'm to be. I understand their language well enough. Look here," and he turned the envelope round and showed that it was addressed to Peter McGrew, butler, Morony Castle.
For that semblance was none other than the likeness of a grinning human skull, with two cross-bones beneath it just such an effigy as I had seen many times on the tombstones in the churchyard at Sendennis. It was not, however, of the tombstones at Sendennis that I thought just then.
The elder stones, dated a century back, or more, have borders elaborately carved with flowers, and are adorned with a multiplicity of death's-heads, cross-bones, scythes, hour-glasses, and other lugubrious emblems of mortality, with here and there a winged cherub to direct the mourner's spirit upward.
"I expect," said Miss Stiles, "that he played with the little Lambeth children when he was small" but no one really knew... The two men sat down facing one another, and Wistons looked strange indeed with his shoulders hunched up, his thin little legs like two cross-bones, one over the other, his black hair and pale face. "I feel rather like a thief in the night," he said, "stealing down here.
In this encampment on the Pecan are neither squaws, dogs, nor ponies; only men, naked to the breech clout, their bodies brightly painted from hip to head, chequered like a hatchment, or the jacket of a stage harlequin, with its fantastic devices, some ludicrous, others grotesque; still others of aspect terrible showing a death's-head and cross-bones.
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