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.................................................................................................................... 16 Poem: I - Robin and Ben: or, The Pirate and the Apothecary .................................................................................................. 16 Poem: II - The Builder?s Doom ......................................................................

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........................................... 16 Poem: I - Robin and Ben: or, The Pirate and the Apothecary .................................................. ...ds,, Do nothing but for business ends. 11 Moral Emblems Poem: V Industrious pirate! see him sweep The lonely bosom of the deep, And daily the horizon... ...p, And daily the horizon scan From Hatteras or Matapan. Be sure, before that pirate’s old, He will have made a pot of gold, And will retire from all h... ...d roar As roars the angry mob; He feels the solid building quake, The trusty timbers throb. All night beside the fire he cowers: He hears the rafters ... ...ies. 16 Robert Louis Stevenson MORAL TALES Poem: I - Robin and Ben: or, The Pirate and the Apothecary Come, lend me an attentive ear A startling mora... ...Apothecary Come, lend me an attentive ear A startling moral tale to hear, Of Pirate Rob and Chemist Ben, And different destinies of men. Deep in the g... ...n of lath, Looked forward to a day of wrath. In the dead night, the groaning timber Would jar upon the ear of slumber, And, like Dodona’s talking oak,...

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...ble envy. But no, there was something gaudier even than this. He would be a pirate! That was it! now his future lay plain before him, and glowing wi... ... it, and hear with swelling ecstasy the whisperings, “It’s Tom Saw yer the Pirate! — the Black Avenger of the Spanish Main!” Yes, it was settled; hi... ...me conspicuous advantages about a life of crime, and so he consented to be a pirate. Three miles below St. Petersburg, at a point where the Mississipp... ...luff, but it lacked the advantages of diffi culty and danger so valued by a pirate. The Terror of the Seas had brought a side of bacon, and had about... ...co, and had also brought a few corn cobs to make pipes with. But none of the pirates smoked or “chewed” but himself. The Black Avenger of the Spanish... ...— they were about to spring for the closet, when there was a crash of rotten timbers and Injun Joe landed on the ground amid the debris of the ru The...

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...ence in a charming lodge near the chateau, all the wood he needed from the timber that was cut on the estate, oats, hay, and straw for two horses, and... ...ucement to lease to the lat- ter, for twelve years, the cutting of all the timber. Moreau argued this: he could have no pension; he was the father of ... ...e been there, you know that all the people at that end of the Adriatic are pirates, rovers, corsairs retired from business, as they haven’t been hange... ...“Ha! good,” said Georges, laughing. “After being a corsair, and probably a pirate, he thought no more of spitting a Christian on his dagger than I did... ...st of the perils by which she was surrounded; and as she hated her hideous pirate, she answered my glances with delightful ogles fit to raise a man to... ...o didn’t leave us any more than our shadow; and I couldn’t persuade Madame Pirate to send her away. The next night we did the same thing, and again I ... ...ium (a great many pop- pies, as monsieur told us, grow about there) in the pirate’s grog, just to make him sleep soundly and leave her free for a litt...

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... of the strange heathen, or, musket on shoulder and match in cock, guarded timber blockhouses built upon the banks of rivers that command good trade? ... ...vidently,” she murmured. “You say to yourself—here’s a fellow deep in with pirates, thieves, niggers—” “To be sure—” “A man I never saw the like befor... ...ed when in liquor. It was— upon his soul. And into a craft next thing to a pirate! That was the name for it or his own name was not Shaw. He said this... ...d him up on the road somewhere. Look at the old dog—carved out of a ship’s timber—as talkative as a fish—grim as a gutted wreck. That’s the man for me... ...Not one. I only just discovered my mate’s got the notion I am some kind of pirate. And all your yacht people think the same. It is as though you had ... ...eck snor- ing against each other, as if there were no wives at home and no pirates at sea.” “Look here,” said Lingard. “I found out that I can’t trus... ... him? He’s mad! Leaving his brig with a hun- dred and twenty born and bred pirates of the worst kind in two praus on the other side of a sandbank. Did... ...her scarf was dragged off her head, its fringes having caught in the rough timber. The same eager grip lifted her up, stood her on her feet without he... ...ion of the universe. The Emma had blown up; and when the rain of shattered timbers and mangled corpses falling into the lagoon had ceased, the cloud o...

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...ore and more as the family grew older. Stead had contrived a lean-to, with timbers from the old house, and wattled sides stuffed with moss, where he a... ...ook was their own, free to do what they chose with except cutting down the timber trees, but the further side was the landlord’s, as they had now to r... ...g it into a rough track through a thicket 114 Under the Storm whence some timber had been drawn out in the summer. “They will see where we turned off... ...all gone, Master Philip and all, and master says they are flibustiers, and pirates, and robbers; and Mrs. Lightfoot’s boy came and said Stead Kenton w...

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...led out. It was quick like a rebound. The deck was a wilderness of smashed timber, lying crosswise like 18 Y outh trees in a wood after a hurricane; ... ...g to curl upwards amongst the mass of splinters. Here and there a piece of timber, stuck up- right, resembled a post. Half of a fife-rail had been sho... ... they seemed at home like salamanders, and looked like a band of desperate pirates. The fire sparkled in the whites of their eyes, gleamed on patches ...

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...as made captain of the great ship Argo, to sail about and scour the sea of pirates. But Daedalus having escaped from Crete, and flying by sea to Athen... ...they took away the old planks as they decayed, putting in new and stronger timber in their place, insomuch that this ship be- came a standing example ... ...entertained at Corinth in a stately room, he was much surprised to see the timber and ceiling so finely carved and paneled, and asked his host whether... ...oreover is said, in obedience to an oracle, to have been built entirely of timber and fastened with wooden pins, without nails or cramps of iron. The ... ...he wind slacking, galleys of the Lipareans came upon them, taking them for pirates; and, when they held up their hands as suppliants, forbore indeed f... ...e they exposed to sale their goods and persons as lawful prize, they being pirates; and scarcely, at last, by the virtue and interest of one man, Time... ...ed himself, resolved to lose no time; and finding their rampart was all of timber, and observing that a strong wind constantly at sun-rising blew off ... ...filled all their rampart with it, so that the flame being fed by the close timber and wooden palisades, went on and spread into all quarters. The Lati... ...into his hands. Cimon, by these means, got the town, expelled the Dolopian pirates, and so opened the traffic of the Aegean sea. And, understanding th...

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...e first laid the keel props of the ship Argo and taught him how to measure timbers with the rule. More easily wouldst thou cast thy eyes upon the sun ... ... arms pulled the weary rowers along all together, and made the strong knit timbers of the ship to quiver. But when, eager to reach the Mysian mainland... ...ned blow for blow. And as when shipwrights with their hammers smite ships’ timbers to meet the sharp clamps, fixing layer upon layer; and the blows re... ... clashing rocks; and on each side they shook and thundered; and the ship’s timbers were held fast. Then Athena with her left hand thrust back one migh... ...ur need. For fierce tempests, falling on the sea, have shat tered all the timbers of the crazy ship in which we were cleaving our path on business be... ...n from heaven, so that he might meet with a friendly host; much less would pirates coming to his land be let go scatheless for long, men whose care it...

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...lypso came back with some augers, so he bored holes with them and fitted the timbers together with bolts and rivets. He made the raft as broad as a sk... ... will be best—no matter what happens I will stick to the raft as long as her timbers hold together, but when the sea breaks her up I will swim for it;... ... watered both by rain and dew; it breeds cattle also and goats; all kinds of timber grow here, and there are watering places where the water never run... ... the people, who were enraged against him for having gone with some T aphian pirates and plun dered the Thesprotians who were at peace with us? They ...

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...ond Azuera, where it bursts suddenly into flame and crashes like a sinster pirate-ship of the air, hove-to above the horizon, engaging the sea. At nig... ...ld, inaccessible, and rocky gorge of the Sierra, where vestiges of charred timber, some heaps of smashed bricks, and a few shapeless pieces of rusty i... ...ships at sea within the perfect circle of the horizon, its clumps of heavy timber motionless like solid islands of leaves above the running waves of g... ...rush of foam broke swishing over the stern, simultaneously with a crack of timbers and a staggering shock. He had the impression of an an- gry hand la... ...iquely, heel- ing her over till she was half swamped, starting some of her timbers, and swinging her head parallel to her own course with the force of... ... Custom House, there appeared the extent of the town like a grove of thick timber on the plain with a gateway in front, and the cupolas, towers, and m...

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...while taking a row in a boat I had been captured near V an Buren Street By pirates on Lake Michigan, And kept in chains, so I could not write her. She... ...a year. When he came home he told me the silly story Of being kidnapped by pirates on Lake Michigan And kept in chains so he could not write me. I pre... ...I crawled under the roof and amid the rafters And flung among the seasoned timbers A lighted handful of oil-soaked waste. Then I came down and slunk a...

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...agna Charta. Carol did not hear him. She was completing the roof of a half-timbered town hall. She had found one man in the prairie village who did no... ... going to like poetry.” III A black February day. Clouds hewn of ponderous timber weighing down on the earth; an irresolute dropping of snow specks up... ...bined churches could afford a splendid club-house, maybe a stucco and half-timber building with gargoyles and all sorts of pleasing decorations on it,... ...and farm-holdings and my inter- ests in iron on the Mesaba and in Northern timber and cut-over lands, I could push two million dollars pretty close, a... ...s. At each road-crossing she had to crawl over a cattle-guard of sharpened timbers. She walked the rails, balancing with arms extended, cautious heel ... ...you and Sam Clark and Harry Haydock and Will Kennicott and the rest of you pirates. I’ll land in G. P. on June 7, on No. 7 from Mpls. Shake a day-day....

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...iving land of low rounded ridges, all white now, with the black patches of timber nestling in the hollows. The road by which I had come ran through th... ...itude seemed foreign to Almayer’s character. He mumbled: “Do you mean that pirate fellow?” “What pirate fellow? The man has been in the ship eleven ye...

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...iving land of low rounded ridges, all white now, with the black patches of timber nestling in the hollows. The road by which I had come ran through th... ...itude seemed foreign to Almayer’s character. He mumbled: “Do you mean that pirate fellow?” “What pirate fellow? The man has been in the ship eleven ye...

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...s to the king: they have letters for him. Ere we were two days old at sea, a pirate of very warlike appointment gave us chase. Finding ourselves too s... ... wood to stone, Convert his gyves to graces; so that my arrows, Too slightly timber’d for so loud a wind, Would have reverted to my bow again, And not...

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... who had put her body together on lovely lines out of the hardest tropical timber fastened with the purest copper. Goodness only knows in what part of... ... lieve. My opinion is that she was old enough to have been one of the last pirates, a slaver perhaps, or else an opium clipper of the early days, if n...

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... last I heard from him, he rather thought Weldon, of De Witt, was our best timber for repre- sentative, all things considered. But you there must sett... ...r questions of ad valorem or specific duties on foreign goods, or live-oak timber contracts, they are not fit to decide these vastly important matters... ...or, at the best, as no better than out- laws. Y ou will grant a hearing to pirates or murderers, but noth- ing like it to “Black Republicans.” In all ... ...you will say that this is a question exclusively our own. We treat them as pirates. They are our own citizens, or persons employed by our citizens, pr... ...commanders of suitable vessels to defend themselves against and to capture pirates. His author- ity has been exercised in a single instance only. For ... ... authorize the commanders of sailing vessels to recapture any prizes which pirates may make of United States vessels and their cargoes, and the consul... ...ho is required to build a bridge with a dull axe, a broken saw, and rotten timber. It is true that I have some very good green timber, which will answ...

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...y has advantages superior to any other nation in our resources of iron and timber, with inexhaustible quantities of fuel in the immediate vicinity of ... ... been removed or sus- pended from that position on a charge of having sold timber and stone from the island for his private benefit. Mr. Pickett is a... ...m Grant, Sherman, Thomas and Rosecrans satisfac- tory, but not important. Pirate Florida captured by the Wachusett October 7, on the coast of Brazil....

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...hich had been a barrier became a high- way, and at last out of a tangle of pirate polities came the great struggle of Carthage and Rome. The history o... ...h a purpose as hurling a missile. Their first guns had barrels of coopered timber, and the world waited for more than five hundred years before the ex... ...nt, now a half-submerged boat, now a cow, now a huge fragment of a house’s timberings, now a muddle of packing-cases and scaffolding. The things clapp...

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...re fifty are making fifty thousand francs a year! Bah! I would sooner turn pirate on the high seas than have my soul shrivel up inside me like that. H... ...planter, to have slaves, to make a few snug millions by selling my cattle, timber, and tobacco; I want to live an absolute monarch, and to do just as ...