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| | Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates - CHAPTER I (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Nor did pirating differ from this general rule, for in it were men who rose to distinction, men whose names, something tarnished and rusted by the lapse of years, have come down even to us of the present day. |
 | | The poor half-tipsy captain had no relish to go a-pirating under the command of his backsliding mate, so out of the ship he bundled, and away he rowed with four or five of the crew, who, like him, refused to join with their jolly shipmates. |
 | | The rest of the pirates were left on the sand spit to await the return of their companions--which never happened. |
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