THE CAPTAIN SPEAKING:

"Look, Jim, how my fingers fidges", he continued, in the pleading tone. "I can't keep 'em still, not I. I haven't had a drop this blessed day. That doctor's a fool, I tell you. If I don't have a drain o' rum, Jim, I'll have the horrors; I seen some on 'em already. I seen OLD FLINT in the corner there, behind you; as plain as print, I seen him; and if I get the horrors, I'm a man that has lived rough...I was first mate, I was OLD FLINT'S first mate, and I'm the on'y one as knows the place."
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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: TREASURE ISLAND, Chapter III (the black spot).-
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