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Chapter XXX

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When they got aboard, the king went for me,

and shook me by the collar, and says: ssssssssss

"Tryin' to give us the slip, was

ye, you pup! Tired of our company ssssssssss

-- hey?" ssssssssss

I says: ssssssssss

"No, your majesty, we warn't --

please don't, your majesty!" ssssssssss

''Quick, then, and tell us what

was your idea, or I'll shake the insides ssssssssss

out o' you!" ssssssssss

"Honest, I'll tell you everything,

just as it happened, your majesty. ssssssssss

The man that had aholt of me was ssssssssss

very good to me, and kept saying he ssssssssss

had a boy about as big as me that ssssssssss

died last year, and he was sorry to see ssssssssss

a boy in such a dangerous fix; and ssssssssss

when they was all took by surprise by finding the gold, and made a rush for the

coffin, he lets go of me and whispers, Heel it, now, or they'll hang ye, sure!' and

I lit out. It didn't seem no good for me 'to stay -- I couldn't do nothing, and I

didn't want to be hung if I could get away. So I never stopped running till I

found the canoe; and when I got here I told Jim to hurry, or they'd catch me

and hang me yet, and said I was afeard you and the duke wasn't alive, now, and

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