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A simple Haystacks-async based command line typing tutor program for Windows, Mac & Linux.
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"Description": "To The Hesitating Purchaser",
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"Line_01": "To The Hesitating Purchaser",
"Line_02": "If sailor talos to sailor tunes,",
"Line_03": "Storm and adventure, heat and cold,",
"Line_04": "If schooners, islands, and maroons",
"Line_05": "And Buccaneers and buried Gold,",
"Line_06": "And all the old romance, retold",
"Line_07": "Exactly in the ancient way,",
"Line_08": "Can please, as me they pleased of old,",
"Line_09": "The wiser youngsters of today:",
"Line_10": "-So be it, and fall on! If no,",
"Line_11": "If studios youth no longer crave,",
"Line_12": "His ancient appetites forgot,",
"Line_13": "Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave,",
"Line_14": "Or Cooper of the wood and wave:",
"Line_15": "So be it, also! And may I",
"Line_16": "And all my pirates share the grave",
"Line-17": "Where these and their creations lie!"
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"Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 1 - Page 1: The Old Sea Dog At the \"Admiral Benbow\"",
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"Line_01": "TREASURE ISLAND",
"Line_02": "By: Robert Lewis Stevenson",
"Line_03": "Part 1",
"Line_04": "The Old buccaneer",
"Line_05": "Chapter 1",
"Line_06": "The Old Sea Dog At the \"Admiral Benbow\"",
"Line_07": "Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these",
"Line_08": "gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole",
"Line_09": "particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning",
"Line_10": "to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of",
"Line_11": "the island, and that only because there is still treasure",
"Line_12": "not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace",
"Line_13": "17-, and go back to the time when my father kept",
"Line_14": "the \"Admiral Benbow\" inn, and the brown old seaman,",
"Line_15": "with the sabre cut, first took up his lodging under our roof.",
"Line_16": "I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came",
"Line_17": "plodding to the inn door, his sea-crest following behind",
"Line_18": "him in a hand-barrow; a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown",
"Line_19": "man; his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulders of",
"Line_20": "his soiled blue coat; his hands ragged and scarred, with"
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"Line_01": "black, broken nails; and the sabre cut across one",
"Line_02": "check, a dirty, livid white. I remember him looking",
"Line_03": "round the cove and whistling to himself as he did so,",
"Line_04": "and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang",
"Line_05": "so often afterwards:-",
"Line_06": "\"Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-",
"Line_07": "Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!\"",
"Line_08": "in the high, old tottering voice that seemed to have",
"Line_09": "been tuned and broken at the capstan bars. then he",
"Line_10": "rapped on the door with a bit of stick like a handspike",
"Line_11": "that he carried, and when my father appeared, called",
"Line_12": "roughly for a glass of rum. This, when it was brought",
"Line_13": "to him, he drank slowly, like a connoisseur, lingering",
"Line_14": "on the taste, and still looking about him at the cliffs",
"Line_15": "and up at our signboard.",
"Line_16": "\"This is a handy cove,\" says he, at length; \"and",
"Line_17": "a pleasant sittyated grog-shop. Much company, mate?\"",
"Line_18": "My father told him no, very little company, the",
"Line_19": "more was the pity,",
"Line_20": "\"Well, then,\" said he, \"this is the berth for me.",
"Line_21": "Here you, matey,\" he cried to the man who trundled",
"Line_22": "the barrow; \"bring up alongside and help up my",
"Line_23": "chest. I'll stay here a bit,\" he continued. \"I'm a",
"Line_24": "plain man; rum and bacon and eggs is what I want,",
"Line_25": "and that head up there for to watch ships off. What",
"Line_26": "you mought call me? You mought call me captain.",
"Line_27": "Oh, I see what you're at-there;\" and he threw down",
"Line_28": "three or four gold pieces on the threshold. \"You can"
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"Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 1 - Page 3: The Old Sea Dog At the \"Admiral Benbow\"",
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"Line_01": "tell me when I've worked through that,\" says he, looking",
"Line_02": "as fierce as a commander.",
"Line_03": "And, indeed, bad as his clothes were, and coarsely as",
"Line_04": "he spoke, he had none of the appearance of a man who",
"Line_05": "sailed before the mast; but seemed like a mate or",
"Line_06": "skipper, accustomed to be obeyed or to strike. The",
"Line_07": "man who came with the barrow told us the mail had set",
"Line_08": "him down the morning before at the \"Royal George;\"",
"Line_09": "that he had inquired what inns there were along the",
"Line_10": "coast, and hearing ours well spoken of, I suppose, and",
"Line_11": "described as lonely, had chosen it from the others for his",
"Line_12": "place of residence. And that was all we could learn of",
"Line_13": "our guest.",
"Line_14": "He was a very silent man by custom. All day he",
"Line_15": "hung round the cove, or upon the cliffs, with a brass",
"Line_16": "telescope; all evening he sat in a corner of the parlour",
"Line_17": "next the fire, and drank rum and water very strong.",
"Line_18": "Mostly he would not speak when spoken to; only",
"Line_19": "look up sudden and fierce, and blow through his nose",
"Line_20": "like a fog-horn; and we and the people who came about",
"Line_21": "our house soon learned to let him be. Every day,",
"Line_22": "when he came back from his stroll, he would ask if any",
"Line_23": "seafaring men had gone by along the road? At first",
"Line_24": "we thought it was the want of company of his own",
"Line_25": "kind that made him ask this question; but at last we",
"Line_26": "began to see he was desirous to avoid them. When a",
"Line_27": "seaman put up at the \"Admiral Benbow\" (as now and",
"Line_28": "then some did, making by the coast road for Bristol),",
"Line_29": "he would look in at him through the curtained door"
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"Line_01": "before he entered the parlour; and he was always sure",
"Line_02": "to be as silent as a mouse when any such was present.",
"Line_03": "For me, at least, there was no secret about the matter;",
"Line_04": "for I was, in a way, a sharer in his alarms. He had",
"Line_05": "taken me aside one day, and promised me a silver four-penny",
"Line_06": "on the first of every month if I would only keep",
"Line_07": "my 'weather-eye open for a seafaring man with one leg,\"",
"Line_08": "and let him know the moment he appeared. Often",
"Line_09": "enough, when the first of the month came round, and I",
"Line_10": "applied to him for my wage, he would only blow through",
"Line_11": "his nose at me, and stare me down; but before the week",
"Line_12": "was out he was sure to think better of it, bring me my",
"Line_13": "fourpenny piece, and repeat his orders to look out for",
"Line_14": "\"the seafaring man with one leg.\"",
"Line_15": "How that personage haunted my dreams, I need",
"Line_16": "scarcely tell you. On stormy nights, when the wind",
"Line_17": "shook the four corners of the house, and the surf roared",
"Line_18": "along the cove and up the cliffs, I would see him in",
"Line_19": "a thousand forms, and with a thousand diabolical expressions.",
"Line_20": "Now the leg would be cut off at the knee,",
"Line_21": "now at the hip; now he was a monstrous kind of",
"Line_22": "a creature who had never had but the one leg, and",
"Line_23": "that in the middle of his body. To see him leap and",
"Line_24": "run and pursue me over hedge and ditch was the worst",
"Line_25": "of nightmares. And altogether I paid pretty dear for",
"Line_26": "my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these",
"Line_27": "abominable fancies.",
"Line_28": "But though I was so terrified by the idea of the",
"Line_29": "seafaring man with one leg, I was far less afraid of"
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"Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 1 - Page 5: The Old Sea Dog At the \"Admiral Benbow\"",
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"Line_01": "the captain himself than anybody else who knew him.",
"Line_02": "There were nights when he took a deal more rum and",
"Line_03": "water than his head would carry; and then he would",
"Line_04": "sometimes sit and sing his wicked, old, wild sea-songs,",
"Line_05": "minding nobody; but sometimes he would call for",
"Line_06": "glasses round, and force all the trembling company to",
"Line_07": "listen to his stories or bear a chorus to his singing.",
"Line_08": "Often I have heard the house shaking with \"Yo-ho-ho,",
"Line_09": "and a bottle of rum;\" all the neighbours joining in",
"Line_10": "for dear life, with the fear of death upon them, and",
"Line_11": "each singing louder than the other, to avoid remark.",
"Line_12": "For in these fits he was the most over-riding companion",
"Line_13": "ever known; he would slap his hand on the table for",
"Line_14": "silence all round; he would fly up in a passion of anger",
"Line_15": "at a question, or sometimes because none was put, and",
"Line_16": "so he judged the company was not following his story.",
"Line_17": "Nor would he allow any one to leave the inn till he had",
"Line_18": "drunk himself sleepy and reeled off to bed.",
"Line_19": "His stories were what frightened people worst of",
"Line_20": "all. Dreadful stories they were; about hanging, and",
"Line_21": "walking the plank, and storms at sea, and the Dry",
"Line_22": "Tortugas, and wild deeds and places on the Spanish",
"Line_23": "Main. By his own account he must have lived his",
"Line_24": "life among some of the wickedest men that God ever",
"Line_25": "allowed upon the sea; and the language in which he",
"Line_26": "told these stories shocked our plain country people",
"Line_27": "almost as much as the crimes that he described. My",
"Line_28": "father was always saying the inn would be ruined, for",
"Line_29": "people would soon cease coming there to be tyrannised"
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"Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 1 - Page 6: The Old Sea Dog At the \"Admiral Benbow\"",
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"Line_01": "over and put down, and sent shivering to their beds;",
"Line_02": "but I really believe his presence did us good. People",
"Line_03": "were frightened at the time, but on looking back they",
"Line_04": "rather liked it; it was a fine excitement in a quiet",
"Line_05": "country life; and there was even a party of the",
"Line_06": "younger men who pretended to admire him, calling him",
"Line_07": "a \"true sea-dog,\" and a \"real old salt,\" and such like",
"Line_08": "names, and saying there was the sort of man that made",
"Line_09": "England terrible at sea.",
"Line_10": "In one way, indeed, he bade fair to ruin us; for",
"Line_11": "he kept on staying week after week, and at last",
"Line_12": "month after month, so that all the money had been",
"Line_13": "long exhausted, and still my father never plucked up",
"Line_14": "the heart to insist on having more. If ever he mentioned",
"Line_15": "it, the captain blew through his nose so loudly,",
"Line_16": "that you might say he roared, and stared my poor",
"Line_17": "father out of the room. I have seen him wringing",
"Line_18": "his hands after such a rebuff, and I am sure the annoyance",
"Line_19": "and the terror he lived in must have greatly",
"Line_20": "hastened his early and unhappy death.",
"Line_21": "All the time he lived with us the captain made no",
"Line_22": "change whatever in his dress but to buy some stockings",
"Line_23": "from a hawker. One of the cocks of his hat having",
"Line_24": "fallen down, he let it hand from that day forth, though",
"Line_25": "it was a great annoyance when it blew. I remember",
"Line_26": "the appearance of his coat, which he patched himself",
"Line_27": "up-stairs in his room, and which, before the end, was",
"Line_28": "nothing but patches. He never wrote or received",
"Line_29": "a letter, and he never spoke with any but the neighbours,"
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"Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 1 - Page 7: The Old Sea Dog At the \"Admiral Benbow\"",
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"Line_01": "and with these, for the most part, only when",
"Line_02": "drunk on rum. The great sea-crest none of us had",
"Line_03": "ever seen open.",
"Line_04": "He was only once crossed, and that was towards the",
"Line_05": "end, when my poor father was far gone in a decline",
"Line_06": "that took him off. Dr. Livesey came late one afternoon",
"Line_07": "to see the patient, took a bit of dinner from my mother,",
"Line_08": "and went into the parlour to smoke a pipe until his",
"Line_09": "horse should come down from the hamlet, for we had",
"Line_10": "no stabling at the old \"Benbow.\" I followed him in,",
"Line_11": "and I remember observing the contrast the neat, bright",
"Line_12": "doctor, with his powder as white as snow, and his",
"Line_13": "bright, black eyes and pleasant manners, made with the",
"Line_14": "coltish country folk, and above all, with that filthy,",
"Line_15": "heavy, bleared scarecrow of a pirate of ours, sitting",
"Line_16": "far gone in rum, with his arms on the table. Suddenly",
"Line_17": "he-the captain, that is-began to pipe up his eternal song:-",
"Line_18": "\"Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-",
"Line_19": "Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!",
"Line_20": "Drink and the devil had done for the rest-",
"Line_21": "Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!",
"Line_22": "At first I had supposed \"the dead man's chest\" to be",
"Line_23": "that identical big box of his up-stairs in the front room,",
"Line_24": "and the thought had been mingled in my nightmares",
"Line_25": "with that of the one-legged seafaring man. But by",
"Line_26": "this time we had all long ceased to pay any particular",
"Line_27": "notice to the song; it was new, that night, to",
"Line_28": "nobody but Dr. Livesey, and on him I observed it",
"Line_29": ""
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"Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 1 - Page 8: The Old Sea Dog At the \"Admiral Benbow\"",
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"Line_01": "did not produce an agreeable effect, for he looked up",
"Line_02": "for a moment quite angrily before he went on with",
"Line_03": "his talk to old Taylor, the gardener, on a new cure",
"Line_04": "for the rheumatics. In the meantime, the captain",
"Line_05": "gradually brightened up at his own music, and at last",
"Line_06": "flapped his hand upon the table before him in a way we",
"Line_07": "all knew to mean-silence. The voices stopped at once,",
"Line_08": "all but Dr Livesey's; he went on as before, speaking",
"Line_09": "clear and kind, and drawing briskly at his pipe between",
"Line_10": "every word or two. The captain glared at him for a",
"Line_11": "while, flapped his hand again, glared still harder, and at",
"Line_12": "last broke out with a villainous, low oath: \"Silence,",
"Line_13": "there, between decks!\"",
"Line_14": "\"Were you addressing me, sire?\" says the doctor; and",
"Line_15": "when the ruffian had told him, with another oath, that",
"Line_16": "this was so, \"I have only one thing to say to you, sir,\"",
"Line_17": "replies the doctor, \"that if you keep on drinking rum, the",
"Line_18": "world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!\"",
"Line_19": "The old fellow's fury was awful. He sprang to his",
"Line_20": "feet, drew and opened a sailor's clasp-knife, and,",
"Line_21": "balancing it open on the palm of his hand, threatened",
"Line_22": "to pin the doctor to the wall.",
"Line_23": "The doctor never so much as moved. He spoke to",
"Line_24": "him, as before, over his shoulder, and in the same tone",
"Line_25": "of voice; rather high, so that all the room might hear,",
"Line_26": "but perfectly calm and steady:-",
"Line_27": "\"If you do not put that knife this instant in your",
"Line_28": "pocket, I promise, upon my honour, you shall hang at",
"Line_29": "the next assizes.\""
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"Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 1 - Page 9: The Old Sea Dog At the \"Admiral Benbow\"",
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"Line_01": "Then followed a battle of looks between them, but",
"Line_02": "the captain soon knuckled under, put up his weapon, and",
"Line_03": "resumed his seat, grumbling like a beaten dog.",
"Line_04": "\"And now, sir,\" continued the doctor, \"since I now",
"Line_05": "know there's such a fellow in my district, you may",
"Line_06": "count I'll have an eye upon you day and night. I'm",
"Line_07": "not a doctor only; I'm a magistrate; and if I catch a",
"Line_08": "breath of complaint against you, if it's only for a piece",
"Line_09": "of incivility like to-night's, I'll take effectual meas to",
"Line_10": "have you hunted down and routed out of this. Let that",
"Line_11": "suffice.\"",
"Line_12": "Soon after Dr. Livesey's horse came to the door,",
"Line_13": "and he rode away; but the captain held his peace",
"Line_14": "that evening, and for many evenings to come."
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"Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 2 - Page 10: Black Dog Appears and Disappears",
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"Line_01": "Chapter 2",
"Line_02": "Black Dog Appears and Disappears",
"Line_03": "It was not very long after this that there occurred",
"Line_04": "the first of the mysterious events that rid us at last",
"Line_05": "of the captain, though not, as you will see, of his",
"Line_06": "affairs. It was a bitter cold winter, with long hard",
"Line_07": "frosts and heavy gales; and it was plain from the",
"Line_08": "first that my poor father was little likely to see the",
"Line_09": "spring. He sank daily, and my mother and I had",
"Line_10": "all the inn upon our hands; and were kept busy",
"Line_11": "enough, without paying much regard to our unpleasant",
"Line_12": "guest.",
"Line_13": "It was one January morning, very early - a pinching,",
"Line_14": "frosty morning = the cove all grey with hoar-frost, the",
"Line_15": "ripple lapping softly on the stones, the sun still low",
"Line_16": "and only touching the hilltops and shining far to",
"Line_17": "seaward. The captain had risen earlier than usual,",
"Line_18": "and set out down the beach, his cutlass swinging",
"Line_19": "under the broad skirts of the old blue coat, his brass",
"Line_20": "telescope under his arm, his hat tilted back upon his",
"Line_21": "head. I remember his breath hanging like smoke",
"Line_22": "in his wake as he strode off, and the last sound I",
"Line_23": "heard of him, as he turned the big rock, was a loud"
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"Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 2 - Page 11: Black Dog Appears and Disappears",
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"Line_01": "snort of indignation, as though his mind was still",
"Line_02": "running upon Dr. Livesey.",
"Line_03": "Well, mother was up-stairs with father; and I was",
"Line_04": "laying the breakfast-table against the captain's return,",
"Line_05": "when the parlour door opened, and a man stepped in on",
"Line_06": "whom I had never set my eyes before. He was a pale,",
"Line_07": "tallowy creature, wanting two fingers of the left hand;",
"Line_08": "and, though he wore a cutlass, he did not look much like",
"Line_09": "a fighter. I had always my eye open for seafaring men,",
"Line_10": "with one leg or two, and I remember this one puzzled",
"Line_11": "me. He was not sailorly, and yet he had a smack of",
"Line_12": "the sea about him too.",
"Line_13": "I asked him what was for his service, and he said he",
"Line_14": "would take rum; but I was going out of the room to",
"Line_15": "fetch it he sat down upon a table, and motioned me to",
"Line_16": "draw near. I paused where I was with my napkin in",
"Line_17": "my hand.",
"Line_18": "\"Come here, sonny,\" says he. \"Come nearer here.\"",
"Line_19": "I took a step nearer.",
"Line_20": "\"Is this here table for my mate, Bill?\" he asked,",
"Line_21": "with a kind of leer.",
"Line_22": "I told him I did not know his mate Bill; and this",
"Line_23": "was for a person who stayed in our house, whom we",
"Line_24": "called the captain.",
"Line_25": "\"Well,\" said he, \"my mate Bill would be called",
"Line_26": "the captain, as like as not. He has a cut on one cheek,",
"Line_27": "and a mighty pleasant way with him, particularly in",
"Line_28": "drink, has my mate, Bill. We'll put it, for argument",
"Line_29": "like, that your captain has a cut on one cheek - and"
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"Line_01": "we'll put it, if you like, that that cheek's the right one.",
"Line_02": "Ah, well! I told you. Now, is my mate Bill in this",
"Line_03": "here house?",
"Line_04": "I told him he was out walking.",
"Line_05": "\"Which way, sonny? Which way is he gone?\"",
"Line_06": "And when I had pointed out the rock and told him",
"Line_07": "how the captain was likely to return, and how soon, and",
"Line_08": "answered a few other questions, \"Ah,\" said he, \"this'll",
"Line_09": "be as good as drink to my mate Bill.\"",
"Line_10": "the expression of his face as he said these words was",
"Line_11": "not at all pleasant, and I had my own reasons for",
"Line_12": "thinking that the stranger was mistaken, even supposing",
"Line_13": "he meant what he said. But it was no affair of mine,",
"Line_14": "I thought; and, besides, it was difficult to know what",
"Line_15": "to do. The stranger kept hanging about just inside",
"Line_16": "the inn door, peering round the corner like a cat waiting",
"Line_17": "for a mouse. Once I stepped out myself into the road,",
"Line_18": "but he immediately called me back, and, as I did not",
"Line_19": "obey quick enough for his fancy, a most horrible change",
"Line_20": "came over his tallowy face, and he ordered me in, with",
"Line_21": "an oath that made me jump. As soon as I was back",
"Line_22": "again he returned to his former manner, half fawning,",
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"Line_25": "\"I have a son of my own,\" said he, \"as like you but",
"Line_26": "two blocks, and he's all the pride of my 'art. But",
"Line_27": "the great thing for boys is discipline, sonny - discipline.",
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"Line_07": "So saying, the stranger backed along with me into",
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"Line_20": "\"Bill,\" said the stranger, in a voice that I thought",
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"Line_23": "all the brows had gone out of his face, and even his",
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"Line_28": "\"Come, Bill, you know me; you know an old shipmate,",
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"Line_01": "The captain made a sort of gasp.",
"Line_02": "\"Black Dog!\" said he.",
"Line_03": "\"And who else?\" returned the other, getting more",
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"Line_05": "his old shipmate Billy, at the \"Admiral Benbow\" inn.",
"Line_06": "Ah, Bill Bill, we have seen a sight of times, us two,",
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"Line_09": "\"Now, look here,\" said the captain; \"you've run",
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"Line_11": "\"That's you, Bill,\" returned Black Dog, \"you're",
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"Line_16": "When I returned with the rum, they were already",
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"Line_21": "He bade me go, and leave the door wide open.",
"Line_22": "\"None of your keyholes for me, sonny,\" he said; and",
"Line_23": "I left them together, and retired into the bar.",
"Line_24": "for a long time, though I certainly did my best to",
"Line_25": "listen, I could hear nothing but a low gabbling; but",
"Line_26": "at last the voices began to grow higher, and I could",
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"Line_01": "once. And again,\"If it comes to swinging, swing",
"Line_02": "all, say I.\"",
"Line_03": "Then all of a sudden there was a tremendous",
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"Line_07": "Dog in full flight, and the captain hotly pursuing, both",
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"Line_22": "\"Jim,\" says he, \"rum;\" and as he spoke, he reeled",
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"Line_24": "\"Are you hurt?\" cried I.",
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"Line_01": "that had fallen out, and I broke one glass and fouled the",
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"Line_10": "\"Dear, deary me,\" cried my mother, \"what a",
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"Line_19": "\"Oh, doctor,\" we cried, \"what shall we do?",
"Line_20": "Where is he wounded?\"",
"Line_21": "\"Wounded? A fiddle-stick's end!\" said the doctor.",
"Line_22": "\"No more wounded than you or I. The man has had",
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"Line_24": "you run up-stairs to your husband, and tell him, if",
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"Line_01": "When I got back with the basin, the doctor had",
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"Line_04": "\"Here's luck,\" \"A fair wind,\" and \"Billy Bones his fancy,\"",
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"Line_09": "\"Prophetic,\" said the doctor, touching this picture",
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"Line_22": "\"Where's Black Dog?\"",
"Line_23": "\"There is no Black Dog here,\" said the doctor,",
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"Line_01": "\"That's not my name,\" he interrupted.",
"Line_02": "\"Must I care,\" returned the doctor. \"It's the",
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"Line_05": "say to you is this: one glass of rum won't kill you, but",
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"Line_08": "do you understand that? - die, and go to your own place,",
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"Line_18": "\"this is nothing,\" he said, as soon as he had closed",
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"Line_03": "About noon I stopped at the captain's door with some",
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"Line_07": "\"Jim,\" he said, \"you're the only one here that's",
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"Line_11": "And now you see, mate, I'm",
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"Line_13": "me one noggin of rum, now, won't you, matey?\"",
"Line_14": "\"The doctor\"--I began.",
"Line_15": "But he broke in cursing the doctor, in a feeble",
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"Line_17": "\"and that doctor there, why, what do he know about",
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"Line_21": "do the doctor know of lands like that? -and I",
"Line_22": "lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and rink,",
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"Line_01": "blood 'll be on you, Jim, and that Doctor swab;\"",
"Line_02": "and he ran on again for a while with curses. \"Look,",
"Line_03": "Jim, how my fingers fidges,\" he continued, in the",
"Line_04": "pleading tone. \"I can't keep 'em still, not I. I",
"Line_05": "haven't had a drop this blessed day. That doctor's a",
"Line_06": "fool, I tell you. If I don't have a drain o' rum,",
"Line_07": "Jim, I'll have the horrors; I seen some on 'em already.",
"Line_08": "I see old Flint in the corner there, behind you; as",
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"Line_12": "I'll give you a golden guinea for a noggin, Jim.\"",
"Line_13": "He was growing more and more excited, and this",
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"Line_16": "doctor's words, now quoted to me, and rather offended",
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"Line_18": "\"I want none of your money,\" said I, \"but what",
"Line_19": "you owe my father. I'll get you one glass, and no more.\"",
"Line_20": "When I brought it to him, he seized it greedily, and",
"Line_21": "drank it out.",
"Line_22": "\"Ay, ay,\" said he, \"that's some better, sure",
"Line_23": "enough. And now, matey, did that doctor say how",
"Line_24": "long I was to lie here in this old berth?\"",
"Line_25": "\"A week at least,\" said I.",
"Line_26": "\"thunder!\" he cried. \"A week! I can't do",
"Line_27": "that: they'd have the black spot on me by then. The",
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"Line_01": "blessed moment; lubbers as couldn't keep what they",
"Line_02": "got, and want to nail what is another's. Is that seamanly",
"Line_03": "behaviour, now, I want to know? But I'm a",
"Line_04": "saving soul. I never wasted good money of mine, nor",
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"Line_06": "on 'em. I'll shake out another reef, matey, and daddle",
"Line_07": "'em again.\"",
"Line_08": "As he was thus speaking, he had risen from bed",
"Line_09": "with great difficulty, holding to my shoulder with a",
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"Line_16": "\"That doctor's done me,\" he murmured. \"My ears",
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"Line_18": "Before I could do much to help him he had fallen",
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"Line_20": "while silent.",
"Line_21": "\"Jim,\" he said, at length,\"you saw that seafaring",
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"Line_23": "\"Black dog?\" I asked.",
"Line_24": "\"Ah! Black Dog,\" says he. \"He's a bad 'un; but",
"Line_25": "there's worse that put him on. Now, if I can't get",
"Line_26": "away nohow, and they tip me the black spot, mind you,",
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"Line_01": "swab, and tell him to pipe all hands-magistrates and",
"Line_02": "such - and he'll lay 'em aboard at the \"Admiral Benbow\"",
"Line_03": "-all old Flint's crew, man and boy, all on 'em that's",
"Line_04": "left. I was first mate, I was, old Flint's first mate,",
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"Line_06": "it me at Savannah, when he lay a-dying, like as if I",
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"Line_11": "\"But what is the black spot, Captain?\" I asked.",
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"Line_14": "I'll share with you equals, upon my honour.\"",
"Line_15": "He wandered a little longer, his voice growing",
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"Line_28": "and all the work of the inn to be carried on in the",
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