Thomas Harwick's Blog - Posts Tagged "pirate"

"I followed him in, and I remember observing the contrast the neat bright doctor, with his powder as white as snow and his bright black eyes and pleasant manners, made with the coltish country folk, and above all, with that filthy, heavy, bleared scarecrow of a pirate of ours, sitting, far gone in the rum, with his arms on the table. Suddenly he- the captain, that is- began to pipe up his eternal song:"

"Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
Drink and the devil had done for the rest -
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!"

This excerpt from Robert Louis Stevenson's classic high seas adventure "Treasure Island" was brought to you by National Talk Like a Pirate Day

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Yarr!