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Indians, negroes, mulatto, scoundrel whites, were gone. "They got off clear the d d villains," said Dick Whittington, appearing beside him, "just before the horses came up. But Woodson has gone after the slaves and the convicts with a party of Carrington's men. He'll catch them, I'm thinking, and they'll come to a pirate's end that's all the pirating they'll get.
The traders, in their reports, would attribute the deed to some tribe of Indians, probably, at the moment of the attack, some five or six hundred miles distant from the spot. This land pirating is now, carried to a greater extent than ever.
"Settle when you git your pay." He led him then to a pawn shop where he picked out a thirty-two calibre revolver and several boxes of cartridges. Also a thick-bladed claspknife. "See here, Stubbs," objected Wilson, "I don't need those things. I'm not going pirating, am I?" "Maybe so. Maybe only missionaryin'. But a gun's a useful ornyment in either case."
Two days after, he captured an English ship, and, as the men joined in pirating, emptied and burned the vessel, and then sailed for St. Thomas. Meeting with no prize, he sailed for Anamaboa, and there watered and repaired. Having again put to sea, a vote was taken whether they should sail for the East Indies or for Brazil.
But still other rival companies built lines, using various forms of apparatus, and though the courts repeatedly upheld Morse's patent rights, the pirating was not effectively checked. The telegraph had come to be a necessity and the original company lacked the capital to construct lines with sufficient rapidity to meet the need.
"Ay, ay, of course we are certainly, give us justice give us our just rights, we want no more," murmured the men in response to Williams' appeal. "There is only one thing I should like to know," remarked one man timidly, "and that is, how we are going to manage without murder if we're going into the pirating business?" "Ha! is that you, Tom?" remarked Williams satirically.
"What, you like pirating, Massa Peter! You run about like little dog, quite frisky not know what to do," he remarked, with a grin. He was fond of giving things their proper names. Jones would have been horrified at being called a pirate; and even Hawk did not like the term, though in his bitter moments he used it. "I have no help for it," I answered, with, I hope, excusable duplicity.
Also, he argued, it would be a valuable addition to their stock of fire-arms. The broken old horse-pistols were good enough to play at pirating with, but something which would really shoot was needed when they started out in earnest on a sure-enough adventure. Georgina suggested that he go to Fishburn Court and borrow a rifle that she had seen up in Uncle Darcy's attic.
The traders, in their reports, would attribute the deed to some tribe of Indians, probably, at the moment of the attack some five or six hundred miles distant from the spot. This land pirating is now carried to a greater extent than ever.
But when they tried to hang him the crowd around the gallows liked him so well that they started a riot, and in the excitement he got away, and a year later he was back on the Spanish Main, pirating again, with all of his old crew who were still alive, about eight of 'em. "He had to get a new ship, for his old one the 'Panther, had been sunk in the fight with the English Admiral.
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