June 26, 2024 • 63 mins
The Mercury Theatre on the Air was a captivating radio series created and hosted by Orson Welles. This weekly hour-long show featured live radio dramas performed by Welles’s celebrated Mercury Theatre repertory company. They presented classic literary works, accompanied by music composed or arranged by Bernard Herrmann.
The series began in July 1938 and aired on the CBS Radio network. Notably, their broadcast of “The War of the Worlds” on October 30 caused quite a stir, allegedly leading to panic among listeners. After this memorable episode, the Campbell Soup Company became the show’s sponsor. The Mercury Theatre on the Air concluded its run on December 4, and shortly thereafter, The Campbell Playhouse took its place.
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The Colombia Network takes pleasure in presentingOrson Wells and the Mercury Theater on the
air in the second of a uniqueview summer series of nine dramatic productions,
the first time in its history thatradio has brought to the country an entire
theatrical institution. Colombia is proud towelcome Orson Wells with its roster of stars
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and to give him the opportunity ofbringing to the air those same qualities of
vitality and imagination that have made himthe most stocked up theatrical director in America
today. Good evening, this isawesin well speaking. If there's anything bloodthirstier
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than a wo wolf, it's apirate. The Mercury Theater is playing safe
now. If vampires and their ilkleave you as uncannily cold as old Dracula
himself, who was staked down firmly, and it is to be hoped permanently
in his own family plot last week, then there are figures to prove that
you are susceptible to buried treasure.We calculate that no decent, law abiding
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citizen is immune to pirates. Thereare cowboys and indians, there are gangsters,
and g men that these delights areinconstant, like the short skirt.
I don't care how young you are. Nothing charms, nothing, ingratiates,
nothing wins like a one legged,double barreled buccaneer with ear rings, a
handkerchief on his head, and aknife in his teeth. What could be
more appropriate on the starboard rail ofyour foremasted brigantine. If you haven't a
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foremasted brigantine, you have Treasure Island. It's in your library because it's a
great English classic, in this evening, because it's a great story. It's
on your radio. That's what Imean by playing safe. Once there was
a small boy who asked his stepfather, who had written a number of books,
please to write something interesting. Thestepfather, seeing his point, immediately
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contributed a serial to something repugnant calledYoung Folks, a periodical circulated among that
section of the English nation known astiny Tots, who were very prevalent in
the eighties. The name of theserial was The Seacook by Captain George North,
and if the tiny Tots didn't thinkit was interesting, they should have
been boiled in oil. The storywas begun, the stepfather says on a
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chill September morning, by the cheekof a brisk fire and the rain drumming
on the window. The small boyhimself helped a lot, even though Captain
North got the credit, and sodid a third and equally incurable small boy,
the author's father. They draw amap, first, the chart of
an island showing very queer and wonderfulattractions spyglass shoulder for instance in Skeleton Island,
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and noise, cash with the barssilver. And then, on that
chill September morning, by that briskfire of theirs, the three potters buried
their thunder tabloons and lewis d'Or,gold and silver and rich jewels and pieces
of eight. That's why the storywas finally called Treasure Island. It's foolish
to guess who's tuned in on thisbroadcast, But if in some way were
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we were retelling this story, hopeddevoutly that he who the Samoans laid to
rest in the hills of their ownfar away Treasure Island, and who was
still known out there only as thegreat teller of tales, would not wish
to night as he did so unaccountablyat first, to suppress the real name
of Captain George North. The smallboy, of course, should have been
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decorated. It's a better world becausehe asked for something interesting. But then
he was lucky. There are millionsand millions of small boys, but only
one of us, said Robert LouisStephenson for a step father. Treasure Island
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by Robert Louis Davenson, with OrsonWells, as Long, John Silver and
as Jim Hawkins, who tells thestory Treasure Island, Squire Trelawnay, Doctor
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Livesey, and the rest of thegentleman. Having asked me to write down
the whole particulars about Treasure Island fromthe beginnings of the end, keeping nothing
back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is treasure
not yet lifted. I take upmy pen in a year of grade seventeen
eighty three and go back to thattime nineteen years ago when my father kept
the Admiral benbow Inn, and thebrown old seaman with a saber cut first
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took up his lodging under our roof. I was fourteen, but I remember
him as if it were yesterday.Mother called me from upstairs, Yes,
mother, he was. He cameplodding to the indoor, his sea chest
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following behind him on a handbarrow,A tall, strong, heavy nut brown
man, his tarry pigtail falling overthe shoulders of his soiled blue coat,
his hands ragged and scarred with blackbroken nails, and the saber cut across
one cheek, a dirty, lividwhite singing that old sea song that he
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sang so often afterwards, How then, boy, yes, sir? What
do you call this? The Admiralbenbow in, Sir, Admiral benbo I
slowly look pleasant, situated, grogshop oaks don't come here much, do
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they, boy? Not much company, No, sir, Oh, well,
then it's the bird for me.I'm a plain man. Rum and
bacon eggs all I want, andthat head up there for the war shipped
off. I have a mind tostay here a bit here, You me
here, you were a wheelbarrow beingup along side. Help up my chest,
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you two boys heavy, Yes,sir, call me captain, boy,
captain, yes, captain, Justone thing more, yes, Captain.
You ain't seen him, have you, No, sir? Who do
you mean along the road? Maybeyou might have seen him some ways.
You can't tell. Let me knowif you do, boy, a seafaring
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man, yes, sir, withone lade, Yes, sir, captain,
yes, captain, bring me alog in a rum boy. And
so he came to live under ourroof. We never knew his name.
We called him the Captain was avery silent man by custom. All day
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he hung around the cover upon thecliffs with a brass telescope, staring out
at sea. All evening he satin a corner of the parlor, next
to the fire and drank rum andwater very strong. And every day when
he came back from his stroll,he would ask the same question, Jim,
yes, Captain, they see fernmen. Goodbye today along the road.
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No, Captain said Jim, Yes, sir, you're a good boy.
Jim. You wouldn't lie to me, ever, would you. Jim,
No, sir, you haven't seenhim heavier Jim, Kim lit a
silver pope before you. On thefirst of every month, if you'll keep
your weather eye open for a seaferronman with one lady, let me know
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the moment you see him. Wiyou, Jim, a seaferen man with
one How that personage haunted my dreamson stormy nights when the wind shook the
four corners of the house, andthe surf roared along the cove and up
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the cliff. I could see himin a thousand forms. Now the leg
would be cut off at the knee, now at the hip. Now he
was a monstrous kind of a creaturewho had never had but one leg,
and that in the middle of hisbody. He'll keep your weather eye open,
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won't your tim for a sea terronman with one leg, a sea
pron man with one leg. Monthswent by the captain's ad fair to ruin
us. They kept on staying,week after week, month after month.
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I'm never a penny of money,Jim, not a penny as they paid
it, since the day he camehere and me are pool with a woman.
Mother. Why don't you ask himfor some and I'll tell you the
truth, Jim, I'm afraid toask him. I'm afraid of the men
now as your father. And allthat time, none of us ever saw
him open the great features that wasin his room. There were nights when
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he took a deal more rum andwater than his head could carry. Often
I heard the house shaking, andall the neighbors joining in. For dear
life, WI a ship where hewould force them all to listen to his
stories, dreadful stories. They wereabout hanging and walking the plank, and
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storms at sea, and the drytorticus, and wild deeds and places on
the Spanish main. By his ownaccount, he must have lived his life
among some of the wickedest men,but God ever allowed upon the sea.
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The Captain had been living with usalmost a year when there occurs a first
of the mysterious events that riddles atlast of his presence. It was one
January morning, very early, apinching, frosty morning. The Captain had
risen earlier than usual and set downthe beach with telescope under his arm.
My mother was upstairs, and Iwas lying the breakfast table against the captain's
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return, when the parlor door openedand the stranger stepped in. Came here,
say, is his table for mymate Bell. I don't know your
mate, Bill. I'm laying thisfor a man who stays in the house.
We call him the captain. Willmy mate Billard be called a captain?
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Like as not? Neh, we'llput it for argument like that.
Sure, Captain's got a cat onwind shake and we'll put it if you
like that that's a right by eh, God save me. There he is
there, there's my mate Bill.Let's see with a spy glass andrees of
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less his old lord. To besure, you and me'll just get back
beyond the door setting, and we'llgive Bill a little surprise. We will
brace his long eye again. Man. You hello, Bill, came Bill.
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He knows me, he know's anold ship mate, Bill Schivalley,
black dog, black dog as everwas Bill. Bill. We've seen us
fight at times as too. Soyou run me down here, I am.
We'll speak up. That's you Bill, you're in the of it.
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Believe I'll ever glass a ram fromthis dear child. Yeah, well,
I've took such a liking to Andwe'll sit there if they're plays and talk
square like our ship mates. Sitdown Bill and use any get out,
yes, and nanny keels and media. Yeah. For a while I could
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hear nothing but a low gabbing.Suddenly the voices began to grow higher.
No end, it comes to swingswing off. I saw a black jog,
streaming blood, run off down theroad. Presently the captain returned alone
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him, give me, give usa rump. I must get away from
here, get away, that's whatI must get away from here. It's
the captain. Mother, Oh,dear dearly, what a disgrace. I'm
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afraid that something like this ever sincehe came into the house with that old
chest that I got the rum andtried to put it down his throat,
but his teeth were tightly shut andhis jaws were as strong as iron.
An hour later, our friend,doctor Livesey came, doctor, what shall
we do? Where's your wounded?Doctor? Wounded? Physicistics in no more
wounded than your eye. The men'shad a stroke with black dog. Black
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dog. There is no black dogexcept what you're have in your own back.
You've been drinking rum man, andyou've had a stroke. Now listen
to me. One glass of rummaday won't kill you. But if you
take one, you'll take another andanother, and then you will die,
die and go to your own placelike the man in the Bible, and
the world will be rid of avery dirty scoundrel. Do you understand that
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the name of Rumpy you is dead? About noon the next day, I
stopped at the Captain's door with themedicine. It's me, Jim, Come
in, Jim, come in.He was lying very much as we'd left
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him. Jim, you're the onlyone here that sports anything, you know.
I always been good to you.Never a month would have given you
a silver popony for yourself. Nowyou see me, I'm pretty low and
deserted by all. Jim. You'llbring me a nog in a rum,
won't you? Me? Here?Doctors it or one? Don't have a
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dream of rum, Jim, orhave the horror. I've seen something already.
She flit in the corner there behindyour plainest printer. I seen him,
Jim, I'll give you a goldenguinea for a knog. When I
brought it to him, he seizedits greetly and rank it out. Ah,
that's some time, sure enough?Tell me this? Did that doctor
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say how long I was to liehere in this old berth a weekly er
thunder? A week? I can'tdo that. They'll have the fast spot
me. But then the lobbers asgoing about get in the window, he
dispressed. Womos lobbers just couldn't keepwhat they got and wore a nail.
Would another's it's it's in the oldsea chest, Jim. The thing thereafter
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it'll tip me the black spot Iknow it. I was first meet I
was Old Flint's first mate, andI'm the only one who snows the place
he buried it. He gave itme at Savannah when he lay a diant.
That's the black spot. Captain Asummons from Old Flint's crew, A
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summons, and Demus gets it.Jim, he is lucky when they're dead.
Ah. So a week went by, and then about three o'clock of
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a bitter, foggy, frosty afternoon, I saw someone drawing slowly near along
the road. He was plainly blind. He tapped before him with a stick,
and he wore a great green shadeover his eyes and nose. And
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he was hunched as if with agea weakness, and wore a huge,
old tattered sea cloak with a hood. A Christian friends take pity on a
poor blind mariner and has lost theprecious sides of his eyes in the gracious
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defense his native countryland and God blessKing George, where in my part of
this country may not be? You'reat the Admiral Benbo in silent black hell
cove. A voice, a youngvoice is here. When I miss me
a knight, Will you give mea hand? May can and friend,
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and leads me into the captain.I held up my hand and the horrible,
soft spoken, eyelish creature drifted ina moment like a vite. Now
why take me into a captain?Syrup upon my word? I dare not
you word me? Take me instrange? Will you take me into the
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captain? Yes? Good? Andwhen I'm in view, say to him
he is a friend for your billbones. If you don't tell, twish
your arm right out of your body. Day yes, right, yep,
that's a damia. No, oh, word march, here's a friend for
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your bill bone. Now, Bill, sit way, Uh, business is
business? Oh thou shall left hand? Bill by take his left hand by
the wrist and bring it near tomy life. He's list the bit of
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paper for your bill bones. Nowthen I'll be going. Goodbye Bill,
goodbye. M hmm. Jim,Yes, captain, what time is it?
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Jim? Ten o'clock, ten o'clock, ten o'clock, six hours.
We'll get him yet you and gotto the wrong corn silver the whole chroom
will captain, Captain, Captain,captain. The captain was dead, and
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there we were my mother and Ia woman and a boy of fourteen alone
at night in the house with thedead captain's body a parlor floor. His
money he does a whole year,never a penny from him, and me,
a poor widow mother. A blackdog comes back, all the blind
man, black dogs, big andsticks. There's something in that old chest
that he's upstairs that's rightfully mine,and we'll have that chest open if we
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die for it. Mother, closethe blind Jim. We don't want anybody
watching it outside. We have toget the key of the Look. Mother,
look on the floor, close tothe dead man's hand. There was
a little round of paper, blackenedon one side, a black spas.
I took it up and found tohave till ten to night, four hours
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now, Jim, find that Ifelt in his pockets one after another,
found his neck, Get open hisshirt. They are, sure enough hanging
on a bit of tarre string.We found the key. Then my mother
got a candle in the bar,and holding each other's hands, we went
upstairs to his room. Give methe key, jin now then nothing in
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here, not a thing of value, not a penny, What a luck?
There before us say the last thingsin the chest a bundle tied up
in oilcloth, looking like papers,and a canvas bag that gave force it
to touch the jingle of gold.Did you see, Jim. I knew
we'd find it, but I'll showthese romes that I'm an honest woman.
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I'll have me doing nothing farthing over, dear, Here, Jim, hold
this bag. The coins were ofall countries and sizes, doubloons and luid'or
and guineas and pieces of eight.Mother, what is it? Jim?
Father? Listen, come, mother, Mother, take the hole and let
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me go to Jim. And nomore the mother. You heard him?
That was the blind man. WhoI'm doing? I know the right,
but mother, you don't know.Oh dear, I'll take what I have,
and I'll take this these papers,great mother, question stack my hand.
Next moment we'd opened the door andwe're in pull retreat toward the village.
Look him over the here there theycome, my mother, run him,
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go to paint old Jim, getthe money and go on. Mother.
Mother, she had fainted. Imanaged somehow to drag her down the
bank into the shado of the ditch. A moment later, the house was
surrounded. Os oh Bill by hellasway, God and your lovel load the
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house and finding again, I dowill say save me a second level under
left me a lot and get thetest. It was a good thing my
mother had fainted or she would havehad to watch with me while our poor
house was pulled apart and smashed.Whatever it was they were after they did
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not find it? Well is itmoney? He gim? What did the
g what did they have to map? Mother? Prince man? Thank you?
That's the single ten alone. Yes, Nat take in the house.
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You're knowing it. She was mysor and I had my eyes I not
know that. Say no, yeah, dog, yeah I can And on
a hundred one thousands? Are yougiving up now? You're dear riches kings?
They can find us. Are you'reningthere? And you're stand us cooking?
There wasn't one of your dad Ma'sbill and I did it a blind
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man, and I had to losea chance for you. I'm to be
a poor carolling beggars. Find hima lum when I might been rolling in
a coach. If that's the pluckof a waver in the sea, misted
among the l that's the last thing. Yeah that dog ya. You won't
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leave out your men, don't you, Johnny dog don't leave out, you
knock out, you're not don't stop. When they picked him up where he
lay on the road on its side, few was stone dead. The horsemen,
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as that turned out, were revenueofficers with some news of a strange
lugger and kiss hole, and itset forth at night in our direction.
They took my mother to a neighbor'shouse. Sogn they got the money you
said, wasn't fortunate? Were theyafter more money? I suppose no tygant
not money I think impacts her.I believe I have the thing in my
breast pocket, and I should liketo put it in safety to be sure,
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though I quite right, I'll takeit. I thought, perhaps doctor
Living, doctor lifting perfectly right,partly right, a gentleman, and the
magistrate, you have a good aThen a light up behind you. We
rode hard all the way till wecame to doctor lift this door, the
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doctor stopping tonight the squires squire wego. We had arrived at the squire's.
He wrote to meet us very safelyand condescending. I mean, gentlemen,
good evening, Doctor livey believe toyou what good wind brings you here.
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Then the officer stood up straight andstiff, and told his story.
Argan, you're a very noble fellow, and his head Hawkins is a tramp.
Tapers eve ogain bring that bill.Argan must have the nail, and
Jim, you have the thing thatthey would ask to have you here it
is sir, mhmm. You've heardof this Captain Sims first crash of him?
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Feard of him? You say hewas the god thirstiest back of their
the sail that fear was a child, a friend a Spaniards was so particulously
afraid of him. But I tellhimself, I was sometimes proud he was
an Englishman. What me is hahim? Money? Money one of those
villas laughter, fat money us?Who knows? What I want to know?
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Is this? Suppose I have sharedin my pockets some clue to wear
Prince Bridget's figure. Will let thetreasure amountain amount? You run out of
this if we have the crewe you'vetalked about. I did out a ship
in Bristol dock and take you andthe balks here alarm and I'll have that
if I serve a year. NoJim is agreeable, we'll open the packets.
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Mm mess island we left it Chudeand longitude and writing tall trees,
spyglass shoulder bearing a point to thenorth of northeast, Skeleton Island southeast by
east ten feet. The bath silveris in the north. Day you will
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give up this wicked practice runs tomorrow. I start for Briscol in three weeks
time. Three weeks, two weeks, ten days. We have the best
ships and the twicest grew in England. Walk in some candas teming boy,
you live here ships Doctor, Iam Admiral. I'll go with your squaus
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a religion and your credits be undertakingthose is only one man I'm afraid of
who's there? Leam the ronswer you, for you cannot fool your tie.
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In a few moments we shall bebound for Treasure Island. The doctor,
Lepsy, Squire Colawney and Jim Hawkins. We paused now for station identification.
This is the Columbia Broadcasting System WABC, New York. Tonight, the Columbia
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Network is bringing you orson Wells andthe Mercury Theater on the air in Robert
Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. As JimHawkins was telling it, we are eager
to leave the ven bow in behindand set out for the docks in Bristol
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with longer than the squire imagined.Ere we were ready for the sea week
after John. Then one fine datacame a letter from the Squire from Bristol.
Here livesay. The ship is morethan finished, lay at anchor,
ready for sea. It was thecrew that delayed me till the most rimed,
parkable stroke of fortune brought me thevery man that I required. I
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was standing on the dock by themerest accident. I've been in talk with
him. He had hobbled down therethat morning with a parrot on his shoulder
to get a smell of salt.He said, out of your pity,
I engaged him on the spot tobe ship's cook. Long John Silver,
he is called, and has lostto egg Wilder. I thought I only
found a cook, But it wasa crew I've discovered. Between Silver and
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myself, we got together in afew days, a company of the Tammy
snows halt imaginable. I declare,we could fight them. Beg see and
home here. It's the glory ofthe sea that on the sixteenth of April,
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the schooner Hypaniola set sail from Bristolharbor. It's more than nineteen years
ago, but I can remember itif it were yesterday. Me my new
blue cabin boys, nineteen years ago, leaning over the rail, waving goodbye
to my mother and doing my bestnot to cry, for at the last
moment it sort of hurt to leaveher, and it was the first time
I had been away from home.Then a little before noon, Captain Smollak
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gave an order the boatsin, soundedhis pipe, and the crew began to
man the captain bars. Soon theanchor was short up. Soon it was
hanging dripping at the bars. Soonthe sail began to draw, and the
land and shipping to slit by oneither side the Hispaniola had begun her voyage
to the Isle of Treasure. Onthe second day out, I made the
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acquaintance of our one legged shipped cooklong John Silver, that by good morning
to love God, Telly, totell you the truth. At the very
first mention of long John Silver inthe Squire's letter, I had taken a
fear in my mind that this mightbe the very one legged sailor that I
had watched for all those months atthe Benbow Inn. But one look at
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him was enough I'd seen Captain Bonesand black Dog and blind Pew, and
I knew what a buccaneer looked like, very different from this clean and pleasant
looking sea cook. His left legwas cut off close to the hip and
under the left shoulder. He carrieda crutch, which he managed wonderfully,
hopping about on it like a bird. Are you mister Silver, sir?
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Yes me, lad such is myname, to be sure. And your
Orkins, eh, nobody more welcomethan you, dolt me lad in.
Old John Scaley he sit down therethe news, your first trip to see
Orkins yester Ware. Well, there'sa lot of things you're gonna learn for
your dear boys's over. What doyou think, Hawkins? And if there's
anything you want to know, Hawkins, you just come to Old John Silver
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and ask him. See, I'lltell you Siscalley was as clean as a
new pin. The dishes hanging upburnished, and his parrot in a cage
in one corner. Kitten Finn,I call my pilet cap Flint. Yeah,
the fellow that's the famous buccaneer.Yeah, Captain Flip predicting success.
Town boys, one's your captain.Yeah, she's a powerful old bird at
Captain Flint two hundred years old.She's a Dane. If anybody's seen more
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wickedness, it must be the devilhimself. They sailed with England, the
Great captaining than the Pirate, onthe old Walrus flint ould ship. I've
seen him muck with the red bloodand met the sink with gold. He's
been at Madagascar, at Mali Barn, Surreyam and Providence and port Abella.
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To look at her, you thinkshe was a baby Orkins, but he
smelled powder. I am your captain, and captain and pieces of me.
They at the end of the thirdweek we left Madeira behind her. The
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ship proved to be a good ship. The crew seemed to be capable seamen.
There was only one man aboard whowas not satisfied, and that was
the ship's master, Captain Smaller.I'll speak plain. I don't like it.
I don't like this cruise. Idon't like the men. I don't
like my officers. That's short andsweet, but nobody paid much intention to
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him. Every man on board seemedwell content. Double grod was served on
the least excuse. There was duffon odd days, and all was a
barrel of apples, standing boats inthe waits for anyone to help him.
Those that had a fancy. Noone knew good come of it yet spoil
folks, lands make devils. That'smy belief. We're not home again yet,
But good did come of that applebarrel. It was about the last
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day of our outward voyage. Sometimethat night, or at latest before noon
of the morrow, we should sightthe Treasure Island. Just after sundown,
when all my work was over,I thought I should like an apple.
Ran on deck. The watch wasall work, all forward, looking out
for the island. I got intothe apple barrel. Suddenly I heard voices
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on deck. Look here, barbecue. How long are you going to stand
off and on like a blessed bambo? Why thunder? I want to get
we sent kabin? Are you?I want to have pickles and wine?
And the how long by the powerof the last moment I can manage?
And that's how long? How manytall ships think you have? I've seen
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laid aboard, and how many brisklads to dry? And in the summit
execution duck and all of the same, Hurray and arry and iry. He's
the first rate seaman. Captain Smollettsay of the blessed ship ross seamen aboard
you right, all folks are lands? You mean I never thought you were.
You're never happy to get drunk,you all love John. I don't
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know what this treasure is. DoI no more? He uses you?
When he is this squire and doctorwith a map and such, Well,
then I mean this squire doctors willfind the treasure for us and help us
to get it aboard by the powers. After that, After that, what
do we do with him? Don'tsee their arm to day? Well what
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would you think we do through them? Pull him ashore like maroons and cut
him down like that much pork.Duty is duty makes wait, wait,
is what I says. When thetime comes, why let it rip?
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What that word? The way tothe southwest of us, We saw it
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Treasure Island. Ten minutes later wewere gathered in the cabin, the Squire,
doctor, Leslie, the captain,and myself. Oh, Horgans,
you have something to say that Idid as I was bid. I told
them the whole story of Silver's conversation. When that was done, all three,
one after another, and each witha bough drank my good health.
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Then the squire a rose. CaptainSmolly, you were right and I was
wrong. I own myself and asI await your orders, there is a
remarkable men. Here's the way Isee it. We must go on because
we can't turn back. And whatI propose is that we don't wait for
them to surprise us, but thatwe come to blows at our own time
and when they least expect it.There must be some faithfulans left. Well.
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We must find out who they are. Jim Share can help us waken
any one. The men are notshy with him, and Jim is a
noticing lead Organs. I put prestigiousfaith in you. In the meantime,
talk as we pleased. There wereonly seven out of twenty six on whom
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we knew we could rely, Andof these seven, I was a boy,
so that the grown men on ourside were six to their nineteen.
Next morning, there was not abreath of air moving, nor a sound,
but that of the surf booming halfa mile away along the beaches.
Peculiar stagnant smell hung over the anchorage. The heat was sweltering, and the
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men grumbled fiercely over their work.Eutiny, it was plain hungovers like a
thunder cloud. Around noon, CaptainSmollett came up on dead when all day
with all side on A thought,wag turn a share of dobody, leave
him take the teeth the snys.Please may go ashore with n a.
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I wait a be walla me man, what we array? What we array?
Waiting over? Suspected the place hehopped around the deck on it we'd
have been William Man turn. Theparty was organized. Six fellows were to
stay on board, and thirteen,including Silver, began to embark. Suddenly
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I had a mad notion to goashore too. In a jippy, I
had slipped over the side and curledup in the four sheets of the nearest
boats. No one took notice ofme. The crews raced for the beach
Nelson. I had we touched shorewhen I leaped out and plunged into the
nearest thicket behind me. I couldhear John Silver's voice, Hey Tim,
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Jim, me boy, Hey JimJim Stop stemp. John Silver was quick
at his work. Two faithful membersof the crew were murdered on the island
that afternoon, only an hour afterwe landed. The second killing I saw
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was my own eyes from where Ilay hidden among the three. Will you
kill me? You let your tamp? We led it away with that kind
of a message. Swamp sooner Godseized me. I sooner lose my hand
and tried to give me to mate. It's the cut, I thinks,
Gold. I step you gold UhJohn, Silver, you're mate of mine
no more. If I died likea dog, I'll die of me.
Dot you've killed Alan? Have youkilled me too? If you can't?
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But are you started to walk away? Try this? Then Long John whipped
the crutch out of his armpit andsent it hurtling through the air. It
struck him in the back and killedhim. Then Silver brought out a whistle.
I didn't wait. I ran,I rans. I never ran before.
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I looked up the side of ahell far above me, I saw
something leap behind the tongue of atree. It seemed dark and shaggy.
I turned and began to run.Suddenly the thing appeared in front of me,
and, running forward, threw itselfon its knees before me and held
out its clasped hands and sup ahright, I'm poor, ben don I
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am. I haven't spoke with Christiansthese three years were here we are shipwrecked.
Tho, so ma broons three years, lived on past season and berries
and oysters. Mate, my heartis sore for Christian diet. You mightn't
happen to have a piece of teasabout you now, No, Well,
minny's the night I've dreamed of cheesetoasted mostly and woke up again, and
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here I was what you call yourselfmade timp. Jim, Jim, Jim.
Well, now, Jim, youwouldn't think. You wouldn't think I
was rich to look at me,would you know? I know, not
as ridiculous. Oh well, butI am, Jim. I'm rich,
rich, awful rich. Oh Jim, your blescious stars you will. You
was the first that found me.Suddenly his eye fell on the Histanola.
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Lying far below it, between itand the land was the Jolly boat,
with five men moving toward shore,and I could not tell if they were
our men or the mutineers. Jim, tell me true, that ain't friendship,
not friendship, and Flint is dead. There are some of Flint's hands
aboard. Worse let for the restof us, not a man with one
leg and silver Wow, if youwere sent for long come, I'm as
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good as park. I know it. I was in friendship with John Silver
when Old Flint buried the treasure,He and six along, six strong seamen.
There was a sure nigh on aweek, and then one day here
comes Flint by himself in a littleboat, and the six all dead,
dead and buried along with the treasure. How he done it? Not a
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man of this scood, big OldI told him the purpose of our voyage
and the predicament in which we nowfound ourselves. Oh that long John,
he's Abaddon. Then you're all ina cloak here, Jagy, Well,
you just put your trust in benGunn. Ben guns the man to help
you. You tell that you square, Jim. Ben Gunn's the man,
that's what you say. And BenGunn says you has ideas of his own.
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Good There Barba Lois, we sawa union jack fluttering in the air
above the wood. There's your friend, sure enough, well likely it's mutiny.
Oh made Silver fly the jolly roger. That's your friend, sure enough
for sure. And the old starthe had made years and years ago by
Fred. Wow, what there?That's the ship cannon, the shooting of
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a scade. Come on, waita minute, Jim, wait, Ben
Gunnis flies drum. Wouldn't bring medown there with Remember Jim ben guns the
man to help him with ben Gunner'swater. He knows where to find him.
Go where you're found in the stageshot its runs once take him get
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there. You won't forget that pieceof cheese, will you be? It
was less than a miles the stockade, said was heavy, running through the
woods. The shooting is getting louder. Suddenly before me I saw finish wolf
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of mustards fired nearby. Hey therego, Hey, don't shoot, it's
me boo me him Harkin. It'sa moment. Later I was over the
stockade among my presents, and soonafterwards the firing seas the mutineers were saving
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their powder. The stockade was agood place for the paling six feet high
all around it. We could haveheld it against the regiment. Here,
Captain smileth decided to say, andthe way our enemy is next move.
I told Doctor Livesey and the squireabout ben gun Ye. Crag it thru,
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drag it through? Who's that?It's sul Even those men tend to
one. This is a trick.Who blows then noy fire rag it through?
Boxers watch on the lookout, doctorlives it take the north side if
you please, it him the east, gray west, the watch below all
ancelo muskets fively men, I'm careful. Why you want, with your flag
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of soap, Captain Silver to cometo my t Captain silver fire your black
hornist camera later violence you wish totalk to me? You didn't come.
I'm not gold. It is anytreacheryly on your side, and the Lord
help you answing. I'm captaboy fromyou to en. I know what,
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gentlemen, and you may lay tothat. You'd better than down. Ain't
you gonna let me entact? It'sthe main cold morning, to be sure,
sir said, I tied on thesame. Oh there's Jim the top
of morning, did Jim? Werethey all together like a happy family?
And a man are speaking? Ifyou have anything to say, my man
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better say it. Right to work, care and smallest duty is duty to
be sure. Well here it is. We want that treasure. We'll have
it. At that point you justdo save your lines. I reckon and
that's yours. You have a chart, haven't you know where you have?
I know that. What I meanis we want your chart. You give
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us the chart, to get thetreasure by and I'll give you my happy
Davy upon my word of honor toclap you somewhere safe for sure? Is
that all you have to say?Every last words. I to refuse that.
And you've seen the last of me. But musket boy, but a
good are you laying me? Ifyou will come up one by one unarmed,
I'll engage to clap you all inirons and take you home to a
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fair try well in England. Ifyou won't have me named Alexander Smollett.
I've filmed miss Sovereign's colors and I'llsee you all to Davy Jones. You
can't find the treasure, you can'tsail the ship, and you can't fight
us. I stand here and tellyou so, and that the last good
words you'll get from me. Nowback a laugh by sandal, laugh or
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an attack you laugh on the otherside, and then the dial will be
the lucky one. Ten minutes later, nothing remained of the attacking party but
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the five who had fallen, fouron the inside and one on the outside
of the palisades. The mutineers didnot come back at night. They had
got their rations. As the captainput it, The next day was stifling
hot. After dinner, Doctor Liveseysent for me. Jim, what a
cheese you said, ben Gun hada sensifall. Yes, her cheese.
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Well, Jim, uh, justsee the food that comes of being dainty
in your food. You've seen mysnuffbox, haven't you, And you never
saw me take snut, the reasonbeing that in my snuffbox, hay carry
a piece of Parmisan cheese, acheese made in Italy, very new Fisius.
Well, let's for ben Gun,oh good driving. Let then he
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took off his hat and pistols,girt on his cutlass, put the chart
in his pockets, and set offbriskly through the trees. That afternoon,
the block out being stifling hot,and the little patch of sand inside the
palisade a blaze with midday sun,and so much blood about me, and
so many poor dead bodies lying around, a new idea came into my head.
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This was to swim out on thecover of the night, cut the
Hispaniola adrift, and let her goashore where she fancied. The mutineers,
after their appose of the morning,had nothing nearer their hearts than to up
anchor and a way to sea.This I thought would be a fine thing
to prevent. It was evening whenI reached the east coast of the island.
I could see the Hispaniola lying atanchor off shore, and there was
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the Jolly Roger, the black flagof piracy flying from her peak. As
the last rays of daylight dwindled anddisappeared, absolute darkness settled down on Treasure
Island. The next night I wasback on land. I was proud of
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myself, and with good reasons.I had grounded the Hispaniola, beached her
up tidily in the north inlet withno harm done, safe from the mutineers.
I had no trouble finding the stockadecoming in from the shore keeping clothing
sh shadow, where the darkness wasthickest. I crept into the blockhouse.
I could see nothing. The doctorand the Squire must have worried about me.
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I should lie down in my ownplace, I thought, and enjoy
their faces when they found me inthe morning, I felt for a place
to lie down house. Are youhastic well? What she were? My
timbers? Jim Orkins got thin likeeh got a pleasant surprise for poor old
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John. I'm always liked you.I am jim for a lad of spirit.
I picked my own self. WhenI was young and handsome, I
always wanted to get a john inmy camp and take your share and die
a gentleman. Now, my cock, you've got to you can't go back
to your own luck. Where arethey now? Where do you think,
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my son? Have you killed them? What do you think? Well?
I am not such a fool,but I know pretty well what I have
to look for. But there's athing out I have to tell you.
And the first is this. Hereyou are in a bad way, ship
lost, treasure, laws, menlost. And if you want to know
who did it, it was I. I was in the apple barrel the
night resided land, and I heardyou John, and you Dick Johnson and
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hands was now at the bottom ofthe sea, and told every word you
said before the hour was out thatfor the schooner, it was I who
cut her table, and it wasI who brought away. You'll never see
her more, not one of you. I no more fear you than I
fear a fly. I wonder leta year ago you're sleep in front of
my fi Who are you, TomMorgan? Maybe it's not you? As
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captains here prahaps I'm right. Didany of you gentlemen want to have it
out with me in the wancet?You'll get it. You won't find them
last under yellow pay. You mayrelate to it. I like that for
now I have ever seen a betterboy than that. He's more a man
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than any para ratty in this yerehouse. What I say is this,
let me see in little layer,hand on him, That's what I say.
And you may light of it.Hm. Seems they have a lot
to say. I've often let mehear it, delay too, yeh.
What we got something for you there, won't bite you? Hand it over
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lover the black spot, I thoughtto what's on it? Deposed? He
posed? That's it is very prettyroute, to be sure, black print,
I swear, but it ain't onebit prettier rote than this. And
what does it look like, lance? A chart? That's what it is.
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A chart, A chart of thisisland, old prince chart. Nah,
what you say to that? Yes, that's sure enough, that's it,
and he cloviag to it. Sohere sir. That was the end
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of the night's business. Only muchlater I woke up suddenly and helped someone
beside the Jim, jimmy boy,Yes, long John, I saved your
life. You deny, Jim.Now you and me stick close to him,
back to back like in case oftrouble, and talking to trouble Jim.
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Why did those friends are yours leavethat shot behind when they cleared out
a year? They did, though, and him in here this morning and
found the place empty, and theshot lying there on the table when I
couldn't miss it. And there's somethingunder that m under that all bed.
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The next morning we set out afterthe treasure tall tree, spy glass shoulder
bearing a point to the north andnortheast skelets in Ireland, east southeast and
by east. In the east cropcra foot of a private half covered with
green creeper. Human skeleton lay onthe ground. The skeleton with God,
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It lay perfectly straight, the feetpointing in one direction, the hands raised
above its head like a diver's pointingdirectly in the opposite. He ain't natural,
He ain't natural, But you know, lad's either notion in my old
non scown out. Here's the comfortsands. The tip top point of skeleton
islands sticking out like a tooth.Just take a bearing with you along the
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line of them bones east southeast,and by I thought, there's a pointer
right up, there's our line forthe polestar, the Johnny dollars. This
is one of French jokes. Andno mistake him on me. Six was
alone here alone, he killed him, every man, and this one you're
up here, laid down by thecompass. Yes, six they were,
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and six we are, and bonesis what they are now. I saw
him did old flint, very light, with penny pieces on his eyes.
Yet I shouldn't have he's dead,but he've never spit it walls to me.
Flint he had odd, but hedied bad and flint hard that he
did, and may not it's whereAnd the window was open, and I
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hear that old song of his comingout here as well, and the dead
oars on men a ready fishing.He would think, okay, oh think,
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oh lord, he was lost,Oh he's lost? Words of that?
Oh, lords, that seven hundredand fifty thousand pounds out a quarter
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of a mile from here. Whendid a gentleman of fortune show his stun
and that much of dollars for abooty old seaman with a blue mug and
empty too, and lay that Johnoh billet or maybe you know you know
whose boys that was. It waslike as somebody else's. It was like
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a fier pause, come hi hi? Why so? Which were then con
it were why every mind's being gunsdead alige, everyb brye glass shoulder feeling
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a point to the north east Kennedyin island, how east and by east
ten feet time bases the tall three. First of the tall trees was reached
and by bearing proved the wrong one. So did the second, so the
third Jesus hi ah y ll beforeits was a great excavations in this was
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the shaftital pick broken in two,and the boards of several packing cases strewn
around. All branded were the nameWawris, the name of flint Chip.
The treasure had been found and rifled. Seven hundred thousand towns were gone,
turned and saw Bobus on the edgeof the picts. Then gunned Doctor Livesey
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Graham, the squire always muskets.The doctor's plan had worked. The pirates
had fallen into his pack, gonesilver gore up from digs. You made
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this boy's life and out not prosecuteyou. What do plays uh hang about
your neck? Right? No stove, thank you kindly. I dare you
to thank me. It's a bruisegenerdiction that made you David and thanks er.
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Three days over the treasure from BenGunn's cave on board ship on the
eighth day of December, Histaniola reachedBristol. Five men. Only of those
were sailed returned with her. Well, that was nineteen years ago. All
of us had an ample share ofthe treasure and used it wisely or foolishly,
according to our natures. Captain Smolletthad now retired from the sea.
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As for Ben Gunn, he gota thousand pounds, which he spent all
lot in nineteen days. He wasback begging on the twentieth. Silver vanished
on the voyage one night off thecoast of Mexico, and we heard no
more of him. The bar,silver and the arms still lie, for
all I know were slent theresim andcertainly this shall lie there For all of
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me. Oxen and waynropes would notbring me back again to thatt a cursed
island. The worst dreams that everI have, or when I hear the
surf booming about its coast, tostart upright in bed with a sharp voice
of Captain Flint still ringing in myears? Hey, you have been listening
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to Treasure Island, starring Orson Wellsas long John Silver in his on radio
version of Stevenson's Great Adventure Story.This is the second in a series of
nine special broadcasts presented by the MercuryTheater, and here is Orson Wells,
himself, writer, director and starof these programs, to tell you about
next week's production. Orson well Firstof all, I'd like you to meet
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Jim Hawkins, Junior, our leadingman, is fourteen years old. Last
season he made a really startling contributionto the stage history of Shakespeare's plays.
This was during the course of someexperiments with the Mercury Theater sprinkler system,
and the consequence of what must certainlyhave been extensive with search in that field,
he caused it to rain, actuallyto rain and copiously to rain,
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wherein more than three hundred years ithas never rained in Jujuh Caesar before trained
on Brutus. It rained all overBrutus in the forum. I was Brutus,
and I ought to know now.As dramatic criticism, I found this
telling and even final there's a surpriseitem in the funeral scene. I can
assure you that the unexpects appearance onthe stage of so many gallons of real
water created in us are an impressionthat was almost overwhelming. Our popular leading
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man says that he did it allwith a match. I don't dare think
what he'll do. He's old enoughto run for president. But meanwhile,
no matter of what happens to theplumbing, he can always work for the
mercuries. You've probably discovered he's somethingmore than a very gifted performer. And
as I told you, he's somethingless than fifteen. His name shall not
be withheld. I refer to thatfine old actor Arthur Anderson. Mister Anderson
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is not new to the microphone northe mercury. Was prominent in Shoemaker's Holiday
and in Jujus Caesar as Brutus's boyJeeves, the sleepy eyed, silver throated
Lucius in Brass Buttons, he wasat least unforgettable as to our celebrated marc
Antony George Colurus, who was alwayssomehow clever escape rain maker Anderson. He
played Captain Smollett to Night. EustaceWyatt, late Housebreaker of Heartbreak House,
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was the Squire Ray Collins is responsiblefor ben Gunn, among other things,
and that with Alfred Shirley is blind. Pew. Then you heard Stephen Fox
and Agnes guess what she played?More head and a Mercury round up William
Allen and Richard Wilson inclusive. JimHawkins Senior will bear no comment. Next
week we offer you the ominous andauthentic clique of the world's most famous knitting
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needles, Madame Lefarge's needles and Madameherself, doctor Manette, Sidney Carton and
the entire French Revolution, same time, same station. It is a far
far better thing that I do thanI have ever done. Charles Dickens.
That is correct. That is absolutelycorrect, Charles Dickens's Tale of Two Citens.
There isn't this forment a disturbance inthe subcontrol room? If it isn't
a tumbrel, it's Arthur Anderson.Good thing. The brogram's over. Good
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night, everybody. Thanks, Pleasewrite me sorry if you'd like to hear.
Good Bye. Till next week.Remember nine o'clock Eastern daylight saving time
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next Monday night before the Mercury Theateron the air with the Tail of Two
Cities by Charles Dickens. On tonight'sproduction, Ernard Hermann composed the original music
and conducted, and Davidson Taylor supervised. For the Columbia Network, Van Seymour
speaking, this is the Columbia BroadcastingSystem
The Colombia Network takes pleasure in presentingOrson Wells and the Mercury Theater on the
air in the second of a uniqueview summer series of nine dramatic productions,
the first time in its history thatradio has brought to the country an entire
theatrical institution. Colombia is proud towelcome Orson Wells with its roster of stars
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and to give him the opportunity ofbringing to the air those same qualities of
vitality and imagination that have made himthe most stocked up theatrical director in America
today. Good evening, this isawesin well speaking. If there's anything bloodthirstier
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than a wo wolf, it's apirate. The Mercury Theater is playing safe
now. If vampires and their ilkleave you as uncannily cold as old Dracula
himself, who was staked down firmly, and it is to be hoped permanently
in his own family plot last week, then there are figures to prove that
you are susceptible to buried treasure.We calculate that no decent, law abiding
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citizen is immune to pirates. Thereare cowboys and indians, there are gangsters,
and g men that these delights areinconstant, like the short skirt.
I don't care how young you are. Nothing charms, nothing, ingratiates,
nothing wins like a one legged,double barreled buccaneer with ear rings, a
handkerchief on his head, and aknife in his teeth. What could be
more appropriate on the starboard rail ofyour foremasted brigantine. If you haven't a
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foremasted brigantine, you have Treasure Island. It's in your library because it's a
great English classic, in this evening, because it's a great story. It's
on your radio. That's what Imean by playing safe. Once there was
a small boy who asked his stepfather, who had written a number of books,
please to write something interesting. Thestepfather, seeing his point, immediately
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contributed a serial to something repugnant calledYoung Folks, a periodical circulated among that
section of the English nation known astiny Tots, who were very prevalent in
the eighties. The name of theserial was The Seacook by Captain George North,
and if the tiny Tots didn't thinkit was interesting, they should have
been boiled in oil. The storywas begun, the stepfather says on a
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chill September morning, by the cheekof a brisk fire and the rain drumming
on the window. The small boyhimself helped a lot, even though Captain
North got the credit, and sodid a third and equally incurable small boy,
the author's father. They draw amap, first, the chart of
an island showing very queer and wonderfulattractions spyglass shoulder for instance in Skeleton Island,
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and noise, cash with the barssilver. And then, on that
chill September morning, by that briskfire of theirs, the three potters buried
their thunder tabloons and lewis d'Or,gold and silver and rich jewels and pieces
of eight. That's why the storywas finally called Treasure Island. It's foolish
to guess who's tuned in on thisbroadcast, But if in some way were
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we were retelling this story, hopeddevoutly that he who the Samoans laid to
rest in the hills of their ownfar away Treasure Island, and who was
still known out there only as thegreat teller of tales, would not wish
to night as he did so unaccountablyat first, to suppress the real name
of Captain George North. The smallboy, of course, should have been
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decorated. It's a better world becausehe asked for something interesting. But then
he was lucky. There are millionsand millions of small boys, but only
one of us, said Robert LouisStephenson for a step father. Treasure Island
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by Robert Louis Davenson, with OrsonWells, as Long, John Silver and
as Jim Hawkins, who tells thestory Treasure Island, Squire Trelawnay, Doctor
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Livesey, and the rest of thegentleman. Having asked me to write down
the whole particulars about Treasure Island fromthe beginnings of the end, keeping nothing
back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is treasure
not yet lifted. I take upmy pen in a year of grade seventeen
eighty three and go back to thattime nineteen years ago when my father kept
the Admiral benbow Inn, and thebrown old seaman with a saber cut first
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took up his lodging under our roof. I was fourteen, but I remember
him as if it were yesterday.Mother called me from upstairs, Yes,
mother, he was. He cameplodding to the indoor, his sea chest
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following behind him on a handbarrow,A tall, strong, heavy nut brown
man, his tarry pigtail falling overthe shoulders of his soiled blue coat,
his hands ragged and scarred with blackbroken nails, and the saber cut across
one cheek, a dirty, lividwhite singing that old sea song that he
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sang so often afterwards, How then, boy, yes, sir? What
do you call this? The Admiralbenbow in, Sir, Admiral benbo I
slowly look pleasant, situated, grogshop oaks don't come here much, do
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they, boy? Not much company, No, sir, Oh, well,
then it's the bird for me.I'm a plain man. Rum and
bacon eggs all I want, andthat head up there for the war shipped
off. I have a mind tostay here a bit here, You me
here, you were a wheelbarrow beingup along side. Help up my chest,
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you two boys heavy, Yes,sir, call me captain, boy,
captain, yes, captain, Justone thing more, yes, Captain.
You ain't seen him, have you, No, sir? Who do
you mean along the road? Maybeyou might have seen him some ways.
You can't tell. Let me knowif you do, boy, a seafaring
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man, yes, sir, withone lade, Yes, sir, captain,
yes, captain, bring me alog in a rum boy. And
so he came to live under ourroof. We never knew his name.
We called him the Captain was avery silent man by custom. All day
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he hung around the cover upon thecliffs with a brass telescope, staring out
at sea. All evening he satin a corner of the parlor, next
to the fire and drank rum andwater very strong. And every day when
he came back from his stroll,he would ask the same question, Jim,
yes, Captain, they see fernmen. Goodbye today along the road.
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No, Captain said Jim, Yes, sir, you're a good boy.
Jim. You wouldn't lie to me, ever, would you. Jim,
No, sir, you haven't seenhim heavier Jim, Kim lit a
silver pope before you. On thefirst of every month, if you'll keep
your weather eye open for a seaferronman with one lady, let me know
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the moment you see him. Wiyou, Jim, a seaferen man with
one How that personage haunted my dreamson stormy nights when the wind shook the
four corners of the house, andthe surf roared along the cove and up
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the cliff. I could see himin a thousand forms. Now the leg
would be cut off at the knee, now at the hip. Now he
was a monstrous kind of a creaturewho had never had but one leg,
and that in the middle of hisbody. He'll keep your weather eye open,
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won't your tim for a sea terronman with one leg, a sea
pron man with one leg. Monthswent by the captain's ad fair to ruin
us. They kept on staying,week after week, month after month.
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I'm never a penny of money,Jim, not a penny as they paid
it, since the day he camehere and me are pool with a woman.
Mother. Why don't you ask himfor some and I'll tell you the
truth, Jim, I'm afraid toask him. I'm afraid of the men
now as your father. And allthat time, none of us ever saw
him open the great features that wasin his room. There were nights when
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he took a deal more rum andwater than his head could carry. Often
I heard the house shaking, andall the neighbors joining in. For dear
life, WI a ship where hewould force them all to listen to his
stories, dreadful stories. They wereabout hanging and walking the plank, and
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storms at sea, and the drytorticus, and wild deeds and places on
the Spanish main. By his ownaccount, he must have lived his life
among some of the wickedest men,but God ever allowed upon the sea.
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The Captain had been living with usalmost a year when there occurs a first
of the mysterious events that riddles atlast of his presence. It was one
January morning, very early, apinching, frosty morning. The Captain had
risen earlier than usual and set downthe beach with telescope under his arm.
My mother was upstairs, and Iwas lying the breakfast table against the captain's
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return, when the parlor door openedand the stranger stepped in. Came here,
say, is his table for mymate Bell. I don't know your
mate, Bill. I'm laying thisfor a man who stays in the house.
We call him the captain. Willmy mate Billard be called a captain?
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Like as not? Neh, we'llput it for argument like that.
Sure, Captain's got a cat onwind shake and we'll put it if you
like that that's a right by eh, God save me. There he is
there, there's my mate Bill.Let's see with a spy glass andrees of
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less his old lord. To besure, you and me'll just get back
beyond the door setting, and we'llgive Bill a little surprise. We will
brace his long eye again. Man. You hello, Bill, came Bill.
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He knows me, he know's anold ship mate, Bill Schivalley,
black dog, black dog as everwas Bill. Bill. We've seen us
fight at times as too. Soyou run me down here, I am.
We'll speak up. That's you Bill, you're in the of it.
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Believe I'll ever glass a ram fromthis dear child. Yeah, well,
I've took such a liking to Andwe'll sit there if they're plays and talk
square like our ship mates. Sitdown Bill and use any get out,
yes, and nanny keels and media. Yeah. For a while I could
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hear nothing but a low gabbing.Suddenly the voices began to grow higher.
No end, it comes to swingswing off. I saw a black jog,
streaming blood, run off down theroad. Presently the captain returned alone
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him, give me, give usa rump. I must get away from
here, get away, that's whatI must get away from here. It's
the captain. Mother, Oh,dear dearly, what a disgrace. I'm
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afraid that something like this ever sincehe came into the house with that old
chest that I got the rum andtried to put it down his throat,
but his teeth were tightly shut andhis jaws were as strong as iron.
An hour later, our friend,doctor Livesey came, doctor, what shall
we do? Where's your wounded?Doctor? Wounded? Physicistics in no more
wounded than your eye. The men'shad a stroke with black dog. Black
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dog. There is no black dogexcept what you're have in your own back.
You've been drinking rum man, andyou've had a stroke. Now listen
to me. One glass of rummaday won't kill you. But if you
take one, you'll take another andanother, and then you will die,
die and go to your own placelike the man in the Bible, and
the world will be rid of avery dirty scoundrel. Do you understand that
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the name of Rumpy you is dead? About noon the next day, I
stopped at the Captain's door with themedicine. It's me, Jim, Come
in, Jim, come in.He was lying very much as we'd left
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him. Jim, you're the onlyone here that sports anything, you know.
I always been good to you.Never a month would have given you
a silver popony for yourself. Nowyou see me, I'm pretty low and
deserted by all. Jim. You'llbring me a nog in a rum,
won't you? Me? Here?Doctors it or one? Don't have a
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dream of rum, Jim, orhave the horror. I've seen something already.
She flit in the corner there behindyour plainest printer. I seen him,
Jim, I'll give you a goldenguinea for a knog. When I
brought it to him, he seizedits greetly and rank it out. Ah,
that's some time, sure enough?Tell me this? Did that doctor
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say how long I was to liehere in this old berth a weekly er
thunder? A week? I can'tdo that. They'll have the fast spot
me. But then the lobbers asgoing about get in the window, he
dispressed. Womos lobbers just couldn't keepwhat they got and wore a nail.
Would another's it's it's in the oldsea chest, Jim. The thing thereafter
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it'll tip me the black spot Iknow it. I was first meet I
was Old Flint's first mate, andI'm the only one who snows the place
he buried it. He gave itme at Savannah when he lay a diant.
That's the black spot. Captain Asummons from Old Flint's crew, A
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summons, and Demus gets it.Jim, he is lucky when they're dead.
Ah. So a week went by, and then about three o'clock of
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a bitter, foggy, frosty afternoon, I saw someone drawing slowly near along
the road. He was plainly blind. He tapped before him with a stick,
and he wore a great green shadeover his eyes and nose. And
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he was hunched as if with agea weakness, and wore a huge,
old tattered sea cloak with a hood. A Christian friends take pity on a
poor blind mariner and has lost theprecious sides of his eyes in the gracious
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defense his native countryland and God blessKing George, where in my part of
this country may not be? You'reat the Admiral Benbo in silent black hell
cove. A voice, a youngvoice is here. When I miss me
a knight, Will you give mea hand? May can and friend,
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and leads me into the captain.I held up my hand and the horrible,
soft spoken, eyelish creature drifted ina moment like a vite. Now
why take me into a captain?Syrup upon my word? I dare not
you word me? Take me instrange? Will you take me into the
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captain? Yes? Good? Andwhen I'm in view, say to him
he is a friend for your billbones. If you don't tell, twish
your arm right out of your body. Day yes, right, yep,
that's a damia. No, oh, word march, here's a friend for
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your bill bone. Now, Bill, sit way, Uh, business is
business? Oh thou shall left hand? Bill by take his left hand by
the wrist and bring it near tomy life. He's list the bit of
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paper for your bill bones. Nowthen I'll be going. Goodbye Bill,
goodbye. M hmm. Jim,Yes, captain, what time is it?
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Jim? Ten o'clock, ten o'clock, ten o'clock, six hours.
We'll get him yet you and gotto the wrong corn silver the whole chroom
will captain, Captain, Captain,captain. The captain was dead, and
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there we were my mother and Ia woman and a boy of fourteen alone
at night in the house with thedead captain's body a parlor floor. His
money he does a whole year,never a penny from him, and me,
a poor widow mother. A blackdog comes back, all the blind
man, black dogs, big andsticks. There's something in that old chest
that he's upstairs that's rightfully mine,and we'll have that chest open if we
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die for it. Mother, closethe blind Jim. We don't want anybody
watching it outside. We have toget the key of the Look. Mother,
look on the floor, close tothe dead man's hand. There was
a little round of paper, blackenedon one side, a black spas.
I took it up and found tohave till ten to night, four hours
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now, Jim, find that Ifelt in his pockets one after another,
found his neck, Get open hisshirt. They are, sure enough hanging
on a bit of tarre string.We found the key. Then my mother
got a candle in the bar,and holding each other's hands, we went
upstairs to his room. Give methe key, jin now then nothing in
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here, not a thing of value, not a penny, What a luck?
There before us say the last thingsin the chest a bundle tied up
in oilcloth, looking like papers,and a canvas bag that gave force it
to touch the jingle of gold.Did you see, Jim. I knew
we'd find it, but I'll showthese romes that I'm an honest woman.
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I'll have me doing nothing farthing over, dear, Here, Jim, hold
this bag. The coins were ofall countries and sizes, doubloons and luid'or
and guineas and pieces of eight.Mother, what is it? Jim?
Father? Listen, come, mother, Mother, take the hole and let
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me go to Jim. And nomore the mother. You heard him?
That was the blind man. WhoI'm doing? I know the right,
but mother, you don't know.Oh dear, I'll take what I have,
and I'll take this these papers,great mother, question stack my hand.
Next moment we'd opened the door andwe're in pull retreat toward the village.
Look him over the here there theycome, my mother, run him,
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go to paint old Jim, getthe money and go on. Mother.
Mother, she had fainted. Imanaged somehow to drag her down the
bank into the shado of the ditch. A moment later, the house was
surrounded. Os oh Bill by hellasway, God and your lovel load the
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house and finding again, I dowill say save me a second level under
left me a lot and get thetest. It was a good thing my
mother had fainted or she would havehad to watch with me while our poor
house was pulled apart and smashed.Whatever it was they were after they did
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not find it? Well is itmoney? He gim? What did the
g what did they have to map? Mother? Prince man? Thank you?
That's the single ten alone. Yes, Nat take in the house.
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You're knowing it. She was mysor and I had my eyes I not
know that. Say no, yeah, dog, yeah I can And on
a hundred one thousands? Are yougiving up now? You're dear riches kings?
They can find us. Are you'reningthere? And you're stand us cooking?
There wasn't one of your dad Ma'sbill and I did it a blind
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man, and I had to losea chance for you. I'm to be
a poor carolling beggars. Find hima lum when I might been rolling in
a coach. If that's the pluckof a waver in the sea, misted
among the l that's the last thing. Yeah that dog ya. You won't
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leave out your men, don't you, Johnny dog don't leave out, you
knock out, you're not don't stop. When they picked him up where he
lay on the road on its side, few was stone dead. The horsemen,
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as that turned out, were revenueofficers with some news of a strange
lugger and kiss hole, and itset forth at night in our direction.
They took my mother to a neighbor'shouse. Sogn they got the money you
said, wasn't fortunate? Were theyafter more money? I suppose no tygant
not money I think impacts her.I believe I have the thing in my
breast pocket, and I should liketo put it in safety to be sure,
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though I quite right, I'll takeit. I thought, perhaps doctor
Living, doctor lifting perfectly right,partly right, a gentleman, and the
magistrate, you have a good aThen a light up behind you. We
rode hard all the way till wecame to doctor lift this door, the
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doctor stopping tonight the squires squire wego. We had arrived at the squire's.
He wrote to meet us very safelyand condescending. I mean, gentlemen,
good evening, Doctor livey believe toyou what good wind brings you here.
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Then the officer stood up straight andstiff, and told his story.
Argan, you're a very noble fellow, and his head Hawkins is a tramp.
Tapers eve ogain bring that bill.Argan must have the nail, and
Jim, you have the thing thatthey would ask to have you here it
is sir, mhmm. You've heardof this Captain Sims first crash of him?
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Feard of him? You say hewas the god thirstiest back of their
the sail that fear was a child, a friend a Spaniards was so particulously
afraid of him. But I tellhimself, I was sometimes proud he was
an Englishman. What me is hahim? Money? Money one of those
villas laughter, fat money us?Who knows? What I want to know?
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Is this? Suppose I have sharedin my pockets some clue to wear
Prince Bridget's figure. Will let thetreasure amountain amount? You run out of
this if we have the crewe you'vetalked about. I did out a ship
in Bristol dock and take you andthe balks here alarm and I'll have that
if I serve a year. NoJim is agreeable, we'll open the packets.
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Mm mess island we left it Chudeand longitude and writing tall trees,
spyglass shoulder bearing a point to thenorth of northeast, Skeleton Island southeast by
east ten feet. The bath silveris in the north. Day you will
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give up this wicked practice runs tomorrow. I start for Briscol in three weeks
time. Three weeks, two weeks, ten days. We have the best
ships and the twicest grew in England. Walk in some candas teming boy,
you live here ships Doctor, Iam Admiral. I'll go with your squaus
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a religion and your credits be undertakingthose is only one man I'm afraid of
who's there? Leam the ronswer you, for you cannot fool your tie.
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In a few moments we shall bebound for Treasure Island. The doctor,
Lepsy, Squire Colawney and Jim Hawkins. We paused now for station identification.
This is the Columbia Broadcasting System WABC, New York. Tonight, the Columbia
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Network is bringing you orson Wells andthe Mercury Theater on the air in Robert
Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. As JimHawkins was telling it, we are eager
to leave the ven bow in behindand set out for the docks in Bristol
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with longer than the squire imagined.Ere we were ready for the sea week
after John. Then one fine datacame a letter from the Squire from Bristol.
Here livesay. The ship is morethan finished, lay at anchor,
ready for sea. It was thecrew that delayed me till the most rimed,
parkable stroke of fortune brought me thevery man that I required. I
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was standing on the dock by themerest accident. I've been in talk with
him. He had hobbled down therethat morning with a parrot on his shoulder
to get a smell of salt.He said, out of your pity,
I engaged him on the spot tobe ship's cook. Long John Silver,
he is called, and has lostto egg Wilder. I thought I only
found a cook, But it wasa crew I've discovered. Between Silver and
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myself, we got together in afew days, a company of the Tammy
snows halt imaginable. I declare,we could fight them. Beg see and
home here. It's the glory ofthe sea that on the sixteenth of April,
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the schooner Hypaniola set sail from Bristolharbor. It's more than nineteen years
ago, but I can remember itif it were yesterday. Me my new
blue cabin boys, nineteen years ago, leaning over the rail, waving goodbye
to my mother and doing my bestnot to cry, for at the last
moment it sort of hurt to leaveher, and it was the first time
I had been away from home.Then a little before noon, Captain Smollak
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gave an order the boatsin, soundedhis pipe, and the crew began to
man the captain bars. Soon theanchor was short up. Soon it was
hanging dripping at the bars. Soonthe sail began to draw, and the
land and shipping to slit by oneither side the Hispaniola had begun her voyage
to the Isle of Treasure. Onthe second day out, I made the
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acquaintance of our one legged shipped cooklong John Silver, that by good morning
to love God, Telly, totell you the truth. At the very
first mention of long John Silver inthe Squire's letter, I had taken a
fear in my mind that this mightbe the very one legged sailor that I
had watched for all those months atthe Benbow Inn. But one look at
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him was enough I'd seen Captain Bonesand black Dog and blind Pew, and
I knew what a buccaneer looked like, very different from this clean and pleasant
looking sea cook. His left legwas cut off close to the hip and
under the left shoulder. He carrieda crutch, which he managed wonderfully,
hopping about on it like a bird. Are you mister Silver, sir?
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Yes me, lad such is myname, to be sure. And your
Orkins, eh, nobody more welcomethan you, dolt me lad in.
Old John Scaley he sit down therethe news, your first trip to see
Orkins yester Ware. Well, there'sa lot of things you're gonna learn for
your dear boys's over. What doyou think, Hawkins? And if there's
anything you want to know, Hawkins, you just come to Old John Silver
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and ask him. See, I'lltell you Siscalley was as clean as a
new pin. The dishes hanging upburnished, and his parrot in a cage
in one corner. Kitten Finn,I call my pilet cap Flint. Yeah,
the fellow that's the famous buccaneer.Yeah, Captain Flip predicting success.
Town boys, one's your captain.Yeah, she's a powerful old bird at
Captain Flint two hundred years old.She's a Dane. If anybody's seen more
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wickedness, it must be the devilhimself. They sailed with England, the
Great captaining than the Pirate, onthe old Walrus flint ould ship. I've
seen him muck with the red bloodand met the sink with gold. He's
been at Madagascar, at Mali Barn, Surreyam and Providence and port Abella.
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To look at her, you thinkshe was a baby Orkins, but he
smelled powder. I am your captain, and captain and pieces of me.
They at the end of the thirdweek we left Madeira behind her. The
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ship proved to be a good ship. The crew seemed to be capable seamen.
There was only one man aboard whowas not satisfied, and that was
the ship's master, Captain Smaller.I'll speak plain. I don't like it.
I don't like this cruise. Idon't like the men. I don't
like my officers. That's short andsweet, but nobody paid much intention to
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him. Every man on board seemedwell content. Double grod was served on
the least excuse. There was duffon odd days, and all was a
barrel of apples, standing boats inthe waits for anyone to help him.
Those that had a fancy. Noone knew good come of it yet spoil
folks, lands make devils. That'smy belief. We're not home again yet,
But good did come of that applebarrel. It was about the last
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day of our outward voyage. Sometimethat night, or at latest before noon
of the morrow, we should sightthe Treasure Island. Just after sundown,
when all my work was over,I thought I should like an apple.
Ran on deck. The watch wasall work, all forward, looking out
for the island. I got intothe apple barrel. Suddenly I heard voices
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on deck. Look here, barbecue. How long are you going to stand
off and on like a blessed bambo? Why thunder? I want to get
we sent kabin? Are you?I want to have pickles and wine?
And the how long by the powerof the last moment I can manage?
And that's how long? How manytall ships think you have? I've seen
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laid aboard, and how many brisklads to dry? And in the summit
execution duck and all of the same, Hurray and arry and iry. He's
the first rate seaman. Captain Smollettsay of the blessed ship ross seamen aboard
you right, all folks are lands? You mean I never thought you were.
You're never happy to get drunk,you all love John. I don't
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know what this treasure is. DoI no more? He uses you?
When he is this squire and doctorwith a map and such, Well,
then I mean this squire doctors willfind the treasure for us and help us
to get it aboard by the powers. After that, After that, what
do we do with him? Don'tsee their arm to day? Well what
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would you think we do through them? Pull him ashore like maroons and cut
him down like that much pork.Duty is duty makes wait, wait,
is what I says. When thetime comes, why let it rip?
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What that word? The way tothe southwest of us, We saw it
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Treasure Island. Ten minutes later wewere gathered in the cabin, the Squire,
doctor, Leslie, the captain,and myself. Oh, Horgans,
you have something to say that Idid as I was bid. I told
them the whole story of Silver's conversation. When that was done, all three,
one after another, and each witha bough drank my good health.
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Then the squire a rose. CaptainSmolly, you were right and I was
wrong. I own myself and asI await your orders, there is a
remarkable men. Here's the way Isee it. We must go on because
we can't turn back. And whatI propose is that we don't wait for
them to surprise us, but thatwe come to blows at our own time
and when they least expect it.There must be some faithfulans left. Well.
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We must find out who they are. Jim Share can help us waken
any one. The men are notshy with him, and Jim is a
noticing lead Organs. I put prestigiousfaith in you. In the meantime,
talk as we pleased. There wereonly seven out of twenty six on whom
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we knew we could rely, Andof these seven, I was a boy,
so that the grown men on ourside were six to their nineteen.
Next morning, there was not abreath of air moving, nor a sound,
but that of the surf booming halfa mile away along the beaches.
Peculiar stagnant smell hung over the anchorage. The heat was sweltering, and the
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men grumbled fiercely over their work.Eutiny, it was plain hungovers like a
thunder cloud. Around noon, CaptainSmollett came up on dead when all day
with all side on A thought,wag turn a share of dobody, leave
him take the teeth the snys.Please may go ashore with n a.
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I wait a be walla me man, what we array? What we array?
Waiting over? Suspected the place hehopped around the deck on it we'd
have been William Man turn. Theparty was organized. Six fellows were to
stay on board, and thirteen,including Silver, began to embark. Suddenly
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I had a mad notion to goashore too. In a jippy, I
had slipped over the side and curledup in the four sheets of the nearest
boats. No one took notice ofme. The crews raced for the beach
Nelson. I had we touched shorewhen I leaped out and plunged into the
nearest thicket behind me. I couldhear John Silver's voice, Hey Tim,
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Jim, me boy, Hey JimJim Stop stemp. John Silver was quick
at his work. Two faithful membersof the crew were murdered on the island
that afternoon, only an hour afterwe landed. The second killing I saw
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was my own eyes from where Ilay hidden among the three. Will you
kill me? You let your tamp? We led it away with that kind
of a message. Swamp sooner Godseized me. I sooner lose my hand
and tried to give me to mate. It's the cut, I thinks,
Gold. I step you gold UhJohn, Silver, you're mate of mine
no more. If I died likea dog, I'll die of me.
Dot you've killed Alan? Have youkilled me too? If you can't?
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But are you started to walk away? Try this? Then Long John whipped
the crutch out of his armpit andsent it hurtling through the air. It
struck him in the back and killedhim. Then Silver brought out a whistle.
I didn't wait. I ran,I rans. I never ran before.
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I looked up the side of ahell far above me, I saw
something leap behind the tongue of atree. It seemed dark and shaggy.
I turned and began to run.Suddenly the thing appeared in front of me,
and, running forward, threw itselfon its knees before me and held
out its clasped hands and sup ahright, I'm poor, ben don I
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am. I haven't spoke with Christiansthese three years were here we are shipwrecked.
Tho, so ma broons three years, lived on past season and berries
and oysters. Mate, my heartis sore for Christian diet. You mightn't
happen to have a piece of teasabout you now, No, Well,
minny's the night I've dreamed of cheesetoasted mostly and woke up again, and
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here I was what you call yourselfmade timp. Jim, Jim, Jim.
Well, now, Jim, youwouldn't think. You wouldn't think I
was rich to look at me,would you know? I know, not
as ridiculous. Oh well, butI am, Jim. I'm rich,
rich, awful rich. Oh Jim, your blescious stars you will. You
was the first that found me.Suddenly his eye fell on the Histanola.
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Lying far below it, between itand the land was the Jolly boat,
with five men moving toward shore,and I could not tell if they were
our men or the mutineers. Jim, tell me true, that ain't friendship,
not friendship, and Flint is dead. There are some of Flint's hands
aboard. Worse let for the restof us, not a man with one
leg and silver Wow, if youwere sent for long come, I'm as
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good as park. I know it. I was in friendship with John Silver
when Old Flint buried the treasure,He and six along, six strong seamen.
There was a sure nigh on aweek, and then one day here
comes Flint by himself in a littleboat, and the six all dead,
dead and buried along with the treasure. How he done it? Not a
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man of this scood, big OldI told him the purpose of our voyage
and the predicament in which we nowfound ourselves. Oh that long John,
he's Abaddon. Then you're all ina cloak here, Jagy, Well,
you just put your trust in benGunn. Ben guns the man to help
you. You tell that you square, Jim. Ben Gunn's the man,
that's what you say. And BenGunn says you has ideas of his own.
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Good There Barba Lois, we sawa union jack fluttering in the air
above the wood. There's your friend, sure enough, well likely it's mutiny.
Oh made Silver fly the jolly roger. That's your friend, sure enough
for sure. And the old starthe had made years and years ago by
Fred. Wow, what there?That's the ship cannon, the shooting of
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a scade. Come on, waita minute, Jim, wait, Ben
Gunnis flies drum. Wouldn't bring medown there with Remember Jim ben guns the
man to help him with ben Gunner'swater. He knows where to find him.
Go where you're found in the stageshot its runs once take him get
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there. You won't forget that pieceof cheese, will you be? It
was less than a miles the stockade, said was heavy, running through the
woods. The shooting is getting louder. Suddenly before me I saw finish wolf
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of mustards fired nearby. Hey therego, Hey, don't shoot, it's
me boo me him Harkin. It'sa moment. Later I was over the
stockade among my presents, and soonafterwards the firing seas the mutineers were saving
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their powder. The stockade was agood place for the paling six feet high
all around it. We could haveheld it against the regiment. Here,
Captain smileth decided to say, andthe way our enemy is next move.
I told Doctor Livesey and the squireabout ben gun Ye. Crag it thru,
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drag it through? Who's that?It's sul Even those men tend to
one. This is a trick.Who blows then noy fire rag it through?
Boxers watch on the lookout, doctorlives it take the north side if
you please, it him the east, gray west, the watch below all
ancelo muskets fively men, I'm careful. Why you want, with your flag
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of soap, Captain Silver to cometo my t Captain silver fire your black
hornist camera later violence you wish totalk to me? You didn't come.
I'm not gold. It is anytreacheryly on your side, and the Lord
help you answing. I'm captaboy fromyou to en. I know what,
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gentlemen, and you may lay tothat. You'd better than down. Ain't
you gonna let me entact? It'sthe main cold morning, to be sure,
sir said, I tied on thesame. Oh there's Jim the top
of morning, did Jim? Werethey all together like a happy family?
And a man are speaking? Ifyou have anything to say, my man
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better say it. Right to work, care and smallest duty is duty to
be sure. Well here it is. We want that treasure. We'll have
it. At that point you justdo save your lines. I reckon and
that's yours. You have a chart, haven't you know where you have?
I know that. What I meanis we want your chart. You give
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us the chart, to get thetreasure by and I'll give you my happy
Davy upon my word of honor toclap you somewhere safe for sure? Is
that all you have to say?Every last words. I to refuse that.
And you've seen the last of me. But musket boy, but a
good are you laying me? Ifyou will come up one by one unarmed,
I'll engage to clap you all inirons and take you home to a
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fair try well in England. Ifyou won't have me named Alexander Smollett.
I've filmed miss Sovereign's colors and I'llsee you all to Davy Jones. You
can't find the treasure, you can'tsail the ship, and you can't fight
us. I stand here and tellyou so, and that the last good
words you'll get from me. Nowback a laugh by sandal, laugh or
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an attack you laugh on the otherside, and then the dial will be
the lucky one. Ten minutes later, nothing remained of the attacking party but
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the five who had fallen, fouron the inside and one on the outside
of the palisades. The mutineers didnot come back at night. They had
got their rations. As the captainput it, The next day was stifling
hot. After dinner, Doctor Liveseysent for me. Jim, what a
cheese you said, ben Gun hada sensifall. Yes, her cheese.
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Well, Jim, uh, justsee the food that comes of being dainty
in your food. You've seen mysnuffbox, haven't you, And you never
saw me take snut, the reasonbeing that in my snuffbox, hay carry
a piece of Parmisan cheese, acheese made in Italy, very new Fisius.
Well, let's for ben Gun,oh good driving. Let then he
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took off his hat and pistols,girt on his cutlass, put the chart
in his pockets, and set offbriskly through the trees. That afternoon,
the block out being stifling hot,and the little patch of sand inside the
palisade a blaze with midday sun,and so much blood about me, and
so many poor dead bodies lying around, a new idea came into my head.
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This was to swim out on thecover of the night, cut the
Hispaniola adrift, and let her goashore where she fancied. The mutineers,
after their appose of the morning,had nothing nearer their hearts than to up
anchor and a way to sea.This I thought would be a fine thing
to prevent. It was evening whenI reached the east coast of the island.
I could see the Hispaniola lying atanchor off shore, and there was
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the Jolly Roger, the black flagof piracy flying from her peak. As
the last rays of daylight dwindled anddisappeared, absolute darkness settled down on Treasure
Island. The next night I wasback on land. I was proud of
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myself, and with good reasons.I had grounded the Hispaniola, beached her
up tidily in the north inlet withno harm done, safe from the mutineers.
I had no trouble finding the stockadecoming in from the shore keeping clothing
sh shadow, where the darkness wasthickest. I crept into the blockhouse.
I could see nothing. The doctorand the Squire must have worried about me.
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I should lie down in my ownplace, I thought, and enjoy
their faces when they found me inthe morning, I felt for a place
to lie down house. Are youhastic well? What she were? My
timbers? Jim Orkins got thin likeeh got a pleasant surprise for poor old
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John. I'm always liked you.I am jim for a lad of spirit.
I picked my own self. WhenI was young and handsome, I
always wanted to get a john inmy camp and take your share and die
a gentleman. Now, my cock, you've got to you can't go back
to your own luck. Where arethey now? Where do you think,
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my son? Have you killed them? What do you think? Well?
I am not such a fool,but I know pretty well what I have
to look for. But there's athing out I have to tell you.
And the first is this. Hereyou are in a bad way, ship
lost, treasure, laws, menlost. And if you want to know
who did it, it was I. I was in the apple barrel the
night resided land, and I heardyou John, and you Dick Johnson and
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hands was now at the bottom ofthe sea, and told every word you
said before the hour was out thatfor the schooner, it was I who
cut her table, and it wasI who brought away. You'll never see
her more, not one of you. I no more fear you than I
fear a fly. I wonder leta year ago you're sleep in front of
my fi Who are you, TomMorgan? Maybe it's not you? As
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captains here prahaps I'm right. Didany of you gentlemen want to have it
out with me in the wancet?You'll get it. You won't find them
last under yellow pay. You mayrelate to it. I like that for
now I have ever seen a betterboy than that. He's more a man
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than any para ratty in this yerehouse. What I say is this,
let me see in little layer,hand on him, That's what I say.
And you may light of it.Hm. Seems they have a lot
to say. I've often let mehear it, delay too, yeh.
What we got something for you there, won't bite you? Hand it over
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lover the black spot, I thoughtto what's on it? Deposed? He
posed? That's it is very prettyroute, to be sure, black print,
I swear, but it ain't onebit prettier rote than this. And
what does it look like, lance? A chart? That's what it is.
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A chart, A chart of thisisland, old prince chart. Nah,
what you say to that? Yes, that's sure enough, that's it,
and he cloviag to it. Sohere sir. That was the end
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of the night's business. Only muchlater I woke up suddenly and helped someone
beside the Jim, jimmy boy,Yes, long John, I saved your
life. You deny, Jim.Now you and me stick close to him,
back to back like in case oftrouble, and talking to trouble Jim.
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Why did those friends are yours leavethat shot behind when they cleared out
a year? They did, though, and him in here this morning and
found the place empty, and theshot lying there on the table when I
couldn't miss it. And there's somethingunder that m under that all bed.
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The next morning we set out afterthe treasure tall tree, spy glass shoulder
bearing a point to the north andnortheast skelets in Ireland, east southeast and
by east. In the east cropcra foot of a private half covered with
green creeper. Human skeleton lay onthe ground. The skeleton with God,
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It lay perfectly straight, the feetpointing in one direction, the hands raised
above its head like a diver's pointingdirectly in the opposite. He ain't natural,
He ain't natural, But you know, lad's either notion in my old
non scown out. Here's the comfortsands. The tip top point of skeleton
islands sticking out like a tooth.Just take a bearing with you along the
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line of them bones east southeast,and by I thought, there's a pointer
right up, there's our line forthe polestar, the Johnny dollars. This
is one of French jokes. Andno mistake him on me. Six was
alone here alone, he killed him, every man, and this one you're
up here, laid down by thecompass. Yes, six they were,
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and six we are, and bonesis what they are now. I saw
him did old flint, very light, with penny pieces on his eyes.
Yet I shouldn't have he's dead,but he've never spit it walls to me.
Flint he had odd, but hedied bad and flint hard that he
did, and may not it's whereAnd the window was open, and I
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hear that old song of his comingout here as well, and the dead
oars on men a ready fishing.He would think, okay, oh think,
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oh lord, he was lost,Oh he's lost? Words of that?
Oh, lords, that seven hundredand fifty thousand pounds out a quarter
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of a mile from here. Whendid a gentleman of fortune show his stun
and that much of dollars for abooty old seaman with a blue mug and
empty too, and lay that Johnoh billet or maybe you know you know
whose boys that was. It waslike as somebody else's. It was like
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a fier pause, come hi hi? Why so? Which were then con
it were why every mind's being gunsdead alige, everyb brye glass shoulder feeling
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a point to the north east Kennedyin island, how east and by east
ten feet time bases the tall three. First of the tall trees was reached
and by bearing proved the wrong one. So did the second, so the
third Jesus hi ah y ll beforeits was a great excavations in this was
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the shaftital pick broken in two,and the boards of several packing cases strewn
around. All branded were the nameWawris, the name of flint Chip.
The treasure had been found and rifled. Seven hundred thousand towns were gone,
turned and saw Bobus on the edgeof the picts. Then gunned Doctor Livesey
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Graham, the squire always muskets.The doctor's plan had worked. The pirates
had fallen into his pack, gonesilver gore up from digs. You made
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this boy's life and out not prosecuteyou. What do plays uh hang about
your neck? Right? No stove, thank you kindly. I dare you
to thank me. It's a bruisegenerdiction that made you David and thanks er.
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Three days over the treasure from BenGunn's cave on board ship on the
eighth day of December, Histaniola reachedBristol. Five men. Only of those
were sailed returned with her. Well, that was nineteen years ago. All
of us had an ample share ofthe treasure and used it wisely or foolishly,
according to our natures. Captain Smolletthad now retired from the sea.
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As for Ben Gunn, he gota thousand pounds, which he spent all
lot in nineteen days. He wasback begging on the twentieth. Silver vanished
on the voyage one night off thecoast of Mexico, and we heard no
more of him. The bar,silver and the arms still lie, for
all I know were slent theresim andcertainly this shall lie there For all of
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me. Oxen and waynropes would notbring me back again to thatt a cursed
island. The worst dreams that everI have, or when I hear the
surf booming about its coast, tostart upright in bed with a sharp voice
of Captain Flint still ringing in myears? Hey, you have been listening
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to Treasure Island, starring Orson Wellsas long John Silver in his on radio
version of Stevenson's Great Adventure Story.This is the second in a series of
nine special broadcasts presented by the MercuryTheater, and here is Orson Wells,
himself, writer, director and starof these programs, to tell you about
next week's production. Orson well Firstof all, I'd like you to meet
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Jim Hawkins, Junior, our leadingman, is fourteen years old. Last
season he made a really startling contributionto the stage history of Shakespeare's plays.
This was during the course of someexperiments with the Mercury Theater sprinkler system,
and the consequence of what must certainlyhave been extensive with search in that field,
he caused it to rain, actuallyto rain and copiously to rain,
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wherein more than three hundred years ithas never rained in Jujuh Caesar before trained
on Brutus. It rained all overBrutus in the forum. I was Brutus,
and I ought to know now.As dramatic criticism, I found this
telling and even final there's a surpriseitem in the funeral scene. I can
assure you that the unexpects appearance onthe stage of so many gallons of real
water created in us are an impressionthat was almost overwhelming. Our popular leading
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man says that he did it allwith a match. I don't dare think
what he'll do. He's old enoughto run for president. But meanwhile,
no matter of what happens to theplumbing, he can always work for the
mercuries. You've probably discovered he's somethingmore than a very gifted performer. And
as I told you, he's somethingless than fifteen. His name shall not
be withheld. I refer to thatfine old actor Arthur Anderson. Mister Anderson
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is not new to the microphone northe mercury. Was prominent in Shoemaker's Holiday
and in Jujus Caesar as Brutus's boyJeeves, the sleepy eyed, silver throated
Lucius in Brass Buttons, he wasat least unforgettable as to our celebrated marc
Antony George Colurus, who was alwayssomehow clever escape rain maker Anderson. He
played Captain Smollett to Night. EustaceWyatt, late Housebreaker of Heartbreak House,
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was the Squire Ray Collins is responsiblefor ben Gunn, among other things,
and that with Alfred Shirley is blind. Pew. Then you heard Stephen Fox
and Agnes guess what she played?More head and a Mercury round up William
Allen and Richard Wilson inclusive. JimHawkins Senior will bear no comment. Next
week we offer you the ominous andauthentic clique of the world's most famous knitting
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needles, Madame Lefarge's needles and Madameherself, doctor Manette, Sidney Carton and
the entire French Revolution, same time, same station. It is a far
far better thing that I do thanI have ever done. Charles Dickens.
That is correct. That is absolutelycorrect, Charles Dickens's Tale of Two Citens.
There isn't this forment a disturbance inthe subcontrol room? If it isn't
a tumbrel, it's Arthur Anderson.Good thing. The brogram's over. Good
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night, everybody. Thanks, Pleasewrite me sorry if you'd like to hear.
Good Bye. Till next week.Remember nine o'clock Eastern daylight saving time
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next Monday night before the Mercury Theateron the air with the Tail of Two
Cities by Charles Dickens. On tonight'sproduction, Ernard Hermann composed the original music
and conducted, and Davidson Taylor supervised. For the Columbia Network, Van Seymour
speaking, this is the Columbia BroadcastingSystem
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