The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1898-05-21
PART III.
CHAPTER x.-CoNrrNuEp


"Now, that bird" Silver would say,
'fS maybe, 200 years old, HawkinS-
they live forever mostly; and IL any
body's seen more wickedness, IL must
be the devil himself. She's sailed with
England-the great Capt. England.
the pirate. She's been at Madagascar.
and at Malabar and Surinam, and
Providence, and Portobello. She was
Ut the fishing up of the wrecked plate
ships. It's there she learned Pieces of
eight and little wonder; $4,000 of
'em, Hawkinsl She was at the board
Ing of the 'viceroy Of the Indies out
Of Goa, she was; and to look at her
you would think she was babby. But
you smelled powder - didn't you,
csp'n?"
''Stand by TO &C about" the parrot
would scream.
"Ah, she's q handsome craft, she Is,
the cook would say, and give her sugar
from his pocket, and then the bird
would peck at the bars and swear
straight on, passing belief for wicked
ness. There" John would add, you
can't touch pitch and not be mucled,
lad. Here's this poor old innocent
bird of mine swearing blue fire, and
none the wiser, you may lay to that.
She would swear the same, in manner
of speaking, before the chaplain" And
John would touch his forelock with a
solemn way he had. that made me think
he was the best of men.
In the mean time, the squire and Capt.
Smollett were still on pretty distant
terms with one another. The squire
made no bones about the matter; he
despised the captain. The captain, on
his part, never spoke but when he was
spoken to, and then sharp and short
and dry, and not word wasted. He
owned, when driven into corner, that
he seemed to have been wrong about
the crew, that some Of them were as
brisk as he wanted TO see, and all had
behaved fairly well. AS for the ship, he
had taken a downright fancy TO her.
She'll lie q point nearer the wind than
Q man has a right TO expect OF his own
married wife. sir. But" he would add,
call say Is. we're not home again. and
don't like the cruise"
The squire, at this, would turn away
md march up and down the deck. chin
In air.
"a trihe more of that man." he
would say, "and I should explode"
We had some heavy weather which
only proved the qualities of the
"Hispaniola." Every man on board
seemed we'll content, and they
must have been hard TO please
II they had been otherwise; fS-
Il il my belief there was never ships
company SO spoiled since Noah put to
sea. Double grog was going on the
least excuse; there was dun on ODD
hys. as for instance, IL the squire
heard IL was any mans birthday; and
always a barrel of apples standing
.,roached In the waist. for anyone to
help himself that had fancy.
"Never knew good TO come OF IL yet"
the captain said TO DR.. Livesey. spoil
fok'sre hands, make devils. That's my
belief"
But good did come of the apple bar
rel, as you shall hear; for IL 1t had not
been for that, we should have had no
note of warning and might all have
persisted by the hand of treachery.
This In how IL came about:
We had run up the trades 10 get the
wind of the island we were after-l am
not allowed to be more plain-and now
we were running down for IL with
bright lookout day and night. IL was
about the last day Of our outward voy-
age, by the largest computation; some
time that night, or, at latest, before
noon Of the morrow, we should sight
the Treasure island. We were heading
8. s. W.. and had n steady breeze
abeam and a quiet sea. The "Hispan-
lola" rolled steadily, dipping her bow.
spirit now and then with Whit OF
spray. All was drawing allow and aloft;
every one was in the bravest spirits,
because we were now so near an emo
of the first part of our adventure.
Now, Just after shutdown, when nll
my work was over. and / was on my
way 10 my berth, II occurred to me
that / should like an apple. ! ran on
deck. The watch was all forward look
ing out for the island. The man at the
helm was watching the luff OF the
sail, and whistling away gently to him
self; and that was the only sound ex-
ceptIng the swish OF the sea against the
bows and around the sides OF the ship
In I got bodily into the apple barrel
and found there was scarce an apple
left; but, sitting down there In the
dark what with the sound Of the wa