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Updated: June 17, 2025
"What, I, Amasa Delano Jack of the Beach, as they called me when a lad I, Amasa; the same that, duck-satchel in hand, used to paddle along the water-side to the school-house made from the old hulk I, little Jack of the Beach, that used to go berrying with cousin Nat and the rest; I to be murdered here at the ends of the earth, on board a haunted pirate-ship by a horrible Spaniard?
It is natural to sympathize with people who are fighting for their rights; but if these prove to be the right of selling children by the pound and trading in husbands and wives as merchantable articles, should not Englishmen think twice before giving their sympathy? A pirate-ship on the high seas is fighting for independence! Let us be consistent.
That accomplished however, he was very docile, and willing to get into bed by shinning up the mast of a pirate-ship which some people might have called a bedpost. After he had fallen asleep, Helena still sat beside him in the darkness, her absent eyes fixed on the little warm body, where, the sheets kicked off, he sprawled in a sort of spread-eagle over the bed.
"What think you, boys," said Sam suddenly, "shall we go round to the harbour, surprise and kill the guard, seize the pirate-ship, up anchor and leave these villains to enjoy themselves as best they may?" "What! and leave Letta, not to mention Meerta and Bungo, behind us? Never!" "I forgot them for the moment," said Sam. "No, we can't do that."
Unless perchance a sombre thunder-head breaks away from the main body to career all over the gulf till it escapes into the offing beyond Azuera, where it bursts suddenly into flame and crashes like a sinster pirate-ship of the air, hove-to above the horizon, engaging the sea.
Our voyagers were still congratulating themselves on their good fortune in this respect, when the pirate-ship was observed to change her course, turn completely round and return towards the land! "They've seen us!" ejaculated Robin in consternation. "Our doom is fixed," said Sam in a tone of bitter despair. Slagg and his friend were so much overwhelmed that they could not speak.
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