Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Part I.
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The Captain's Throat, Mr. Bones
The doctor ripped up the captain's sleeve and exposed his great sinewy arm. It was tattooed in several places, including a sketch of a gallows with a man hanging from it. He said: 'Master Billy Bones, if that be your name, we'll have a look at the colour of your blood' A great deal of blood was taken before the captain opened his eyes and looked mistily about him. But suddenly his colour changed, and he tried to raise himself, crying, where's black dog? There's no black dog here, said the doctor. Except what you have on your own back, you have been drinking rum. You have had a stroke, precisely as
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