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"It's the name of a buccaneer of my acquaintance; and I call you by it for the sake of shortness, and what I have to say to you is this; one glass of rum won't kill you, but if you take one you'll take another and another, and I stake my wig if you don't break off short, you'll die-do you understand that?

It cowed me more than the pain, and I began to obey him at once, walking straight in at the door and towards the parlour, where our sick old buccaneer was sitting, dazed with rum.

He was the bloodthirstiest buccaneer that sailed.

I had seen the captain, and Black Dog, and the blind man, Pew, and I thought I knew what a buccaneer was like-a very different creature, according to me, from this clean and pleasant-tempered landlord.

As I did so, I could hear hails coming and going between the old buccaneer and his comrades, and this sound of danger lent me wings.

He lingered all day, breathing loudly like the old buccaneer at home in his apoplectic fit, but the bones of his chest had been crushed by the blow and his skull fractured in falling, and some time in the following night, without sign or sound, he went to his Maker.

" Thus encouraged, the buccaneer stepped forth more briskly, and having passed something to Silver, from hand to hand, slipped yet more smartly back again to his companions.

The terror of the dead buccaneer had fallen on their spirits.

This also added to my wretchedness, and to crown all, I was haunted by the thought of the tragedy that had once been acted on that plateau, when that ungodly buccaneer with the blue face-he who died at Savannah, singing and shouting for drink-had there, with his own hand, cut down his six accomplices.

The buccaneer on the wave might relinquish his calling and become at once if he chose, a man of probity and piety on land; nor, even in the full career of his reckless life, was he regarded as a personage with whom it was disreputable to traffic or casually associate.

'And so,' he said, gaily, 'we abandon this buccaneer life tomorrow, do we?

With his rampant curls, bluff growl, black eye patch, and bright-colored pirate shirts and scarves, he's the perfect foil to geek chic, a year-round version of the "Seafair Pirates" who frolic at our big summer parade--the artist for the new buccaneer capitalism, the jester who amuses (but never challenges) the geeks.

Legend has it that treasure lies buried hereabouts, hidden away by a French buccaneer called Montbars the Exterminator.


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