159
XXIII. The Ebb-Tide Runs 166
XXIV. The Cruise of the Coracle 172
XXV. I Strike the Jolly Roger 179
XXVI. Israel Hands 185
XXVII. "Pieces of Eight" 195

PART VI
CAPTAIN SILVER

XXVIII. In the Enemy's Camp 205
XXIX. The Black Spot Again 214
XXX. On Parole 222
XXXI. The Treasure-Hunt--Flint's Pointer 230
XXXII. The Treasure-Hunt--The Voice among the Trees 238
XXXIII. The Fall of a Chieftain 245
XXXIV. And Last 252

TO THE HESITATING PURCHASER

If sailor tales to sailor tunes,
Storm and adventure, heat and cold,
If schooners, islands, and maroons
And Buccaneers and buried Gold,
And all the old romance, retold
Exactly in the ancient way,
Can please, as me they pleased of old,
The wiser youngsters of to-day:

--So be it, and fall on! If not,
If studious youth no longer crave,
His ancient appetites forgot,
Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave,
Or Cooper of the wood and wave:
So be it, also! And may I
And all my pirates share the grave
Where these and their creations lie!

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I remember him as if it were yesterday as he came
plodding to the inn door 50

"Pew!" he cried, "they've been before us" 51

"Now, Morgan," said Long John, very sternly, "you never
clapped your eyes on that Black Dog before, did you,
now?" 82

It was something to see him get on with his cooking
like someone safe ashore 83

They had the gun, by this time, slewed around upon the
swivel 178

In a moment the four pirates had swarmed up the mound
and were upon us 179

Quick as thought, I sprang into the mizzen shrouds 210

Nearly every variety of money in the world must hav