Franklin High School - Molecule Yearbook (Franklin, VT)

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6 No more was sale. p.iil I'it- o o - o.od. Then Long -John stepped ashore and bumped into . id sc. ■tv..in of t'au Conway, soil ling him head first into the sea. The sailors all laughed and Long John laughed with them. This made the captain angry. He drew his cutlass and swung at Silver, but he missed, with a iouel cry Silver plunged into the fight and soon overcame the captain. As the captain got up off the ground he said to Silver, ''I like Good, replied the caotain sharply, hill you take a job on my boat? Soon they set sail for England. On the way they ran into a hard storm and two boats went down. One was the one Sjlver was in. The other was a small, two-masted ship. A month later, at the Admiral Oonhow Inn, Jim Hawkins was sitting at the window when he heard the old familiar cry, Pieces of Light Pieces of Eight. It so startled aim that he cried out in surprise. Surely Silver would not dare core ar-'und here. But it is his parrot, Captain Flint, he said to himael . Then there was a knock on the aoor. He was 30 sunken he d.' n. move. The knock came again only louder. Gathering his w. . , •ii:1 opened the door to find two sailors holding Cantain Flint 1 v a let1-' ’. On the front of the envelope was written, ,rIf I am not fa. nd, jiv . ..0 arrot and this letter to Jim Hawkins at the Admiral Lenhow Inn, in England. The letter read. Then you get this I will be at the bottom of the sea. Keep the parrot, lad, and keep this letter. And if you ever go to sea, lad, don't make my mistake. Emmy stood on the corner of Fifth and Elm, with the fifty cents ;.lrs. 'Miliums had given her to go and spend on herself. Aye, that I will right happily, cried Silver. Jim: Long John Silver Bruce Corey, 56 A TRIP TO THE MOON