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If no,", "Line_11": "If studios youth no longer crave,", "Line_12": "His ancient appetites forgot,", "Line_13": "Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave,", "Line_14": "Or Cooper of the wood and wave:", "Line_15": "So be it, also! And may I", "Line_16": "And all my pirates share the grave", "Line-17": "Where these and their creations lie!" }] }, "Lesson_0002": { "Name": "Lesson_0002", "Number": 2, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 1 - Page 1: The Old Sea Dog At the \"Admiral Benbow\"", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "TREASURE ISLAND", "Line_02": "By: Robert Lewis Stevenson", "Line_03": "Part 1", "Line_04": "The Old buccaneer", "Line_05": "Chapter 1", "Line_06": "The Old Sea Dog At the \"Admiral Benbow\"", "Line_07": "Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these", "Line_08": "gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole", "Line_09": "particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning", "Line_10": "to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of", "Line_11": "the island, and that only because there is still treasure", "Line_12": "not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace", "Line_13": "17-, and go back to the time when my father kept", "Line_14": "the \"Admiral Benbow\" inn, and the brown old seaman,", "Line_15": "with the sabre cut, first took up his lodging under our roof.", "Line_16": "I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came", "Line_17": "plodding to the inn door, his sea-crest following behind", "Line_18": "him in a hand-barrow; a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown", "Line_19": "man; his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulders of", "Line_20": "his soiled blue coat; his hands ragged and scarred, with" }] }, "Lesson_0003": { "Name": "Lesson_0003", "Number": 3, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 1 - Page 2: The Old Sea Dog At the \"Admiral Benbow\"", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "black, broken nails; and the sabre cut across one", "Line_02": "check, a dirty, livid white. I remember him looking", "Line_03": "round the cove and whistling to himself as he did so,", "Line_04": "and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang", "Line_05": "so often afterwards:-", "Line_06": "\"Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-", "Line_07": "Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!\"", "Line_08": "in the high, old tottering voice that seemed to have", "Line_09": "been tuned and broken at the capstan bars. then he", "Line_10": "rapped on the door with a bit of stick like a handspike", "Line_11": "that he carried, and when my father appeared, called", "Line_12": "roughly for a glass of rum. This, when it was brought", "Line_13": "to him, he drank slowly, like a connoisseur, lingering", "Line_14": "on the taste, and still looking about him at the cliffs", "Line_15": "and up at our signboard.", "Line_16": "\"This is a handy cove,\" says he, at length; \"and", "Line_17": "a pleasant sittyated grog-shop. Much company, mate?\"", "Line_18": "My father told him no, very little company, the", "Line_19": "more was the pity,", "Line_20": "\"Well, then,\" said he, \"this is the berth for me.", "Line_21": "Here you, matey,\" he cried to the man who trundled", "Line_22": "the barrow; \"bring up alongside and help up my", "Line_23": "chest. I'll stay here a bit,\" he continued. \"I'm a", "Line_24": "plain man; rum and bacon and eggs is what I want,", "Line_25": "and that head up there for to watch ships off. What", "Line_26": "you mought call me? You mought call me captain.", "Line_27": "Oh, I see what you're at-there;\" and he threw down", "Line_28": "three or four gold pieces on the threshold. \"You can" }] }, "Lesson_0004": { "Name": "Lesson_0004", "Number": 4, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 1 - Page 3: The Old Sea Dog At the \"Admiral Benbow\"", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "tell me when I've worked through that,\" says he, looking", "Line_02": "as fierce as a commander.", "Line_03": "And, indeed, bad as his clothes were, and coarsely as", "Line_04": "he spoke, he had none of the appearance of a man who", "Line_05": "sailed before the mast; but seemed like a mate or", "Line_06": "skipper, accustomed to be obeyed or to strike. The", "Line_07": "man who came with the barrow told us the mail had set", "Line_08": "him down the morning before at the \"Royal George;\"", "Line_09": "that he had inquired what inns there were along the", "Line_10": "coast, and hearing ours well spoken of, I suppose, and", "Line_11": "described as lonely, had chosen it from the others for his", "Line_12": "place of residence. And that was all we could learn of", "Line_13": "our guest.", "Line_14": "He was a very silent man by custom. All day he", "Line_15": "hung round the cove, or upon the cliffs, with a brass", "Line_16": "telescope; all evening he sat in a corner of the parlour", "Line_17": "next the fire, and drank rum and water very strong.", "Line_18": "Mostly he would not speak when spoken to; only", "Line_19": "look up sudden and fierce, and blow through his nose", "Line_20": "like a fog-horn; and we and the people who came about", "Line_21": "our house soon learned to let him be. Every day,", "Line_22": "when he came back from his stroll, he would ask if any", "Line_23": "seafaring men had gone by along the road? At first", "Line_24": "we thought it was the want of company of his own", "Line_25": "kind that made him ask this question; but at last we", "Line_26": "began to see he was desirous to avoid them. When a", "Line_27": "seaman put up at the \"Admiral Benbow\" (as now and", "Line_28": "then some did, making by the coast road for Bristol),", "Line_29": "he would look in at him through the curtained door" }] }, "Lesson_0005": { "Name": "Lesson_0005", "Number": 5, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 1 - Page 4: The Old Sea Dog At the \"Admiral Benbow\"", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "before he entered the parlour; and he was always sure", "Line_02": "to be as silent as a mouse when any such was present.", "Line_03": "For me, at least, there was no secret about the matter;", "Line_04": "for I was, in a way, a sharer in his alarms. He had", "Line_05": "taken me aside one day, and promised me a silver four-penny", "Line_06": "on the first of every month if I would only keep", "Line_07": "my 'weather-eye open for a seafaring man with one leg,\"", "Line_08": "and let him know the moment he appeared. Often", "Line_09": "enough, when the first of the month came round, and I", "Line_10": "applied to him for my wage, he would only blow through", "Line_11": "his nose at me, and stare me down; but before the week", "Line_12": "was out he was sure to think better of it, bring me my", "Line_13": "fourpenny piece, and repeat his orders to look out for", "Line_14": "\"the seafaring man with one leg.\"", "Line_15": "How that personage haunted my dreams, I need", "Line_16": "scarcely tell you. On stormy nights, when the wind", "Line_17": "shook the four corners of the house, and the surf roared", "Line_18": "along the cove and up the cliffs, I would see him in", "Line_19": "a thousand forms, and with a thousand diabolical expressions.", "Line_20": "Now the leg would be cut off at the knee,", "Line_21": "now at the hip; now he was a monstrous kind of", "Line_22": "a creature who had never had but the one leg, and", "Line_23": "that in the middle of his body. To see him leap and", "Line_24": "run and pursue me over hedge and ditch was the worst", "Line_25": "of nightmares. And altogether I paid pretty dear for", "Line_26": "my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these", "Line_27": "abominable fancies.", "Line_28": "But though I was so terrified by the idea of the", "Line_29": "seafaring man with one leg, I was far less afraid of" }] }, "Lesson_0006": { "Name": "Lesson_0006", "Number": 6, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 1 - Page 5: The Old Sea Dog At the \"Admiral Benbow\"", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "the captain himself than anybody else who knew him.", "Line_02": "There were nights when he took a deal more rum and", "Line_03": "water than his head would carry; and then he would", "Line_04": "sometimes sit and sing his wicked, old, wild sea-songs,", "Line_05": "minding nobody; but sometimes he would call for", "Line_06": "glasses round, and force all the trembling company to", "Line_07": "listen to his stories or bear a chorus to his singing.", "Line_08": "Often I have heard the house shaking with \"Yo-ho-ho,", "Line_09": "and a bottle of rum;\" all the neighbours joining in", "Line_10": "for dear life, with the fear of death upon them, and", "Line_11": "each singing louder than the other, to avoid remark.", "Line_12": "For in these fits he was the most over-riding companion", "Line_13": "ever known; he would slap his hand on the table for", "Line_14": "silence all round; he would fly up in a passion of anger", "Line_15": "at a question, or sometimes because none was put, and", "Line_16": "so he judged the company was not following his story.", "Line_17": "Nor would he allow any one to leave the inn till he had", "Line_18": "drunk himself sleepy and reeled off to bed.", "Line_19": "His stories were what frightened people worst of", "Line_20": "all. Dreadful stories they were; about hanging, and", "Line_21": "walking the plank, and storms at sea, and the Dry", "Line_22": "Tortugas, and wild deeds and places on the Spanish", "Line_23": "Main. By his own account he must have lived his", "Line_24": "life among some of the wickedest men that God ever", "Line_25": "allowed upon the sea; and the language in which he", "Line_26": "told these stories shocked our plain country people", "Line_27": "almost as much as the crimes that he described. My", "Line_28": "father was always saying the inn would be ruined, for", "Line_29": "people would soon cease coming there to be tyrannised" }] }, "Lesson_0007": { "Name": "Lesson_0007", "Number": 7, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 1 - Page 6: The Old Sea Dog At the \"Admiral Benbow\"", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "over and put down, and sent shivering to their beds;", "Line_02": "but I really believe his presence did us good. People", "Line_03": "were frightened at the time, but on looking back they", "Line_04": "rather liked it; it was a fine excitement in a quiet", "Line_05": "country life; and there was even a party of the", "Line_06": "younger men who pretended to admire him, calling him", "Line_07": "a \"true sea-dog,\" and a \"real old salt,\" and such like", "Line_08": "names, and saying there was the sort of man that made", "Line_09": "England terrible at sea.", "Line_10": "In one way, indeed, he bade fair to ruin us; for", "Line_11": "he kept on staying week after week, and at last", "Line_12": "month after month, so that all the money had been", "Line_13": "long exhausted, and still my father never plucked up", "Line_14": "the heart to insist on having more. If ever he mentioned", "Line_15": "it, the captain blew through his nose so loudly,", "Line_16": "that you might say he roared, and stared my poor", "Line_17": "father out of the room. I have seen him wringing", "Line_18": "his hands after such a rebuff, and I am sure the annoyance", "Line_19": "and the terror he lived in must have greatly", "Line_20": "hastened his early and unhappy death.", "Line_21": "All the time he lived with us the captain made no", "Line_22": "change whatever in his dress but to buy some stockings", "Line_23": "from a hawker. One of the cocks of his hat having", "Line_24": "fallen down, he let it hand from that day forth, though", "Line_25": "it was a great annoyance when it blew. I remember", "Line_26": "the appearance of his coat, which he patched himself", "Line_27": "up-stairs in his room, and which, before the end, was", "Line_28": "nothing but patches. He never wrote or received", "Line_29": "a letter, and he never spoke with any but the neighbours," }] }, "Lesson_0008": { "Name": "Lesson_0008", "Number": 8, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 1 - Page 7: The Old Sea Dog At the \"Admiral Benbow\"", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "and with these, for the most part, only when", "Line_02": "drunk on rum. The great sea-crest none of us had", "Line_03": "ever seen open.", "Line_04": "He was only once crossed, and that was towards the", "Line_05": "end, when my poor father was far gone in a decline", "Line_06": "that took him off. Dr. Livesey came late one afternoon", "Line_07": "to see the patient, took a bit of dinner from my mother,", "Line_08": "and went into the parlour to smoke a pipe until his", "Line_09": "horse should come down from the hamlet, for we had", "Line_10": "no stabling at the old \"Benbow.\" I followed him in,", "Line_11": "and I remember observing the contrast the neat, bright", "Line_12": "doctor, with his powder as white as snow, and his", "Line_13": "bright, black eyes and pleasant manners, made with the", "Line_14": "coltish country folk, and above all, with that filthy,", "Line_15": "heavy, bleared scarecrow of a pirate of ours, sitting", "Line_16": "far gone in rum, with his arms on the table. Suddenly", "Line_17": "he-the captain, that is-began to pipe up his eternal song:-", "Line_18": "\"Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-", "Line_19": "Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!", "Line_20": "Drink and the devil had done for the rest-", "Line_21": "Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!", "Line_22": "At first I had supposed \"the dead man's chest\" to be", "Line_23": "that identical big box of his up-stairs in the front room,", "Line_24": "and the thought had been mingled in my nightmares", "Line_25": "with that of the one-legged seafaring man. But by", "Line_26": "this time we had all long ceased to pay any particular", "Line_27": "notice to the song; it was new, that night, to", "Line_28": "nobody but Dr. Livesey, and on him I observed it", "Line_29": "" }] }, "Lesson_0009": { "Name": "Lesson_0009", "Number": 9, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 1 - Page 8: The Old Sea Dog At the \"Admiral Benbow\"", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "did not produce an agreeable effect, for he looked up", "Line_02": "for a moment quite angrily before he went on with", "Line_03": "his talk to old Taylor, the gardener, on a new cure", "Line_04": "for the rheumatics. In the meantime, the captain", "Line_05": "gradually brightened up at his own music, and at last", "Line_06": "flapped his hand upon the table before him in a way we", "Line_07": "all knew to mean-silence. The voices stopped at once,", "Line_08": "all but Dr Livesey's; he went on as before, speaking", "Line_09": "clear and kind, and drawing briskly at his pipe between", "Line_10": "every word or two. The captain glared at him for a", "Line_11": "while, flapped his hand again, glared still harder, and at", "Line_12": "last broke out with a villainous, low oath: \"Silence,", "Line_13": "there, between decks!\"", "Line_14": "\"Were you addressing me, sire?\" says the doctor; and", "Line_15": "when the ruffian had told him, with another oath, that", "Line_16": "this was so, \"I have only one thing to say to you, sir,\"", "Line_17": "replies the doctor, \"that if you keep on drinking rum, the", "Line_18": "world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!\"", "Line_19": "The old fellow's fury was awful. He sprang to his", "Line_20": "feet, drew and opened a sailor's clasp-knife, and,", "Line_21": "balancing it open on the palm of his hand, threatened", "Line_22": "to pin the doctor to the wall.", "Line_23": "The doctor never so much as moved. He spoke to", "Line_24": "him, as before, over his shoulder, and in the same tone", "Line_25": "of voice; rather high, so that all the room might hear,", "Line_26": "but perfectly calm and steady:-", "Line_27": "\"If you do not put that knife this instant in your", "Line_28": "pocket, I promise, upon my honour, you shall hang at", "Line_29": "the next assizes.\"" }] }, "Lesson_0010": { "Name": "Lesson_0010", "Number": 10, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 1 - Page 9: The Old Sea Dog At the \"Admiral Benbow\"", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Then followed a battle of looks between them, but", "Line_02": "the captain soon knuckled under, put up his weapon, and", "Line_03": "resumed his seat, grumbling like a beaten dog.", "Line_04": "\"And now, sir,\" continued the doctor, \"since I now", "Line_05": "know there's such a fellow in my district, you may", "Line_06": "count I'll have an eye upon you day and night. I'm", "Line_07": "not a doctor only; I'm a magistrate; and if I catch a", "Line_08": "breath of complaint against you, if it's only for a piece", "Line_09": "of incivility like to-night's, I'll take effectual meas to", "Line_10": "have you hunted down and routed out of this. Let that", "Line_11": "suffice.\"", "Line_12": "Soon after Dr. Livesey's horse came to the door,", "Line_13": "and he rode away; but the captain held his peace", "Line_14": "that evening, and for many evenings to come." }] }, "Lesson_0011": { "Name": "Lesson_0011", "Number": 11, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 2 - Page 10: Black Dog Appears and Disappears", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Chapter 2", "Line_02": "Black Dog Appears and Disappears", "Line_03": "It was not very long after this that there occurred", "Line_04": "the first of the mysterious events that rid us at last", "Line_05": "of the captain, though not, as you will see, of his", "Line_06": "affairs. It was a bitter cold winter, with long hard", "Line_07": "frosts and heavy gales; and it was plain from the", "Line_08": "first that my poor father was little likely to see the", "Line_09": "spring. He sank daily, and my mother and I had", "Line_10": "all the inn upon our hands; and were kept busy", "Line_11": "enough, without paying much regard to our unpleasant", "Line_12": "guest.", "Line_13": "It was one January morning, very early - a pinching,", "Line_14": "frosty morning = the cove all grey with hoar-frost, the", "Line_15": "ripple lapping softly on the stones, the sun still low", "Line_16": "and only touching the hilltops and shining far to", "Line_17": "seaward. The captain had risen earlier than usual,", "Line_18": "and set out down the beach, his cutlass swinging", "Line_19": "under the broad skirts of the old blue coat, his brass", "Line_20": "telescope under his arm, his hat tilted back upon his", "Line_21": "head. I remember his breath hanging like smoke", "Line_22": "in his wake as he strode off, and the last sound I", "Line_23": "heard of him, as he turned the big rock, was a loud" }] }, "Lesson_0012": { "Name": "Lesson_0012", "Number": 12, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 2 - Page 11: Black Dog Appears and Disappears", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "snort of indignation, as though his mind was still", "Line_02": "running upon Dr. Livesey.", "Line_03": "Well, mother was up-stairs with father; and I was", "Line_04": "laying the breakfast-table against the captain's return,", "Line_05": "when the parlour door opened, and a man stepped in on", "Line_06": "whom I had never set my eyes before. He was a pale,", "Line_07": "tallowy creature, wanting two fingers of the left hand;", "Line_08": "and, though he wore a cutlass, he did not look much like", "Line_09": "a fighter. I had always my eye open for seafaring men,", "Line_10": "with one leg or two, and I remember this one puzzled", "Line_11": "me. He was not sailorly, and yet he had a smack of", "Line_12": "the sea about him too.", "Line_13": "I asked him what was for his service, and he said he", "Line_14": "would take rum; but I was going out of the room to", "Line_15": "fetch it he sat down upon a table, and motioned me to", "Line_16": "draw near. I paused where I was with my napkin in", "Line_17": "my hand.", "Line_18": "\"Come here, sonny,\" says he. \"Come nearer here.\"", "Line_19": "I took a step nearer.", "Line_20": "\"Is this here table for my mate, Bill?\" he asked,", "Line_21": "with a kind of leer.", "Line_22": "I told him I did not know his mate Bill; and this", "Line_23": "was for a person who stayed in our house, whom we", "Line_24": "called the captain.", "Line_25": "\"Well,\" said he, \"my mate Bill would be called", "Line_26": "the captain, as like as not. He has a cut on one cheek,", "Line_27": "and a mighty pleasant way with him, particularly in", "Line_28": "drink, has my mate, Bill. We'll put it, for argument", "Line_29": "like, that your captain has a cut on one cheek - and" }] }, "Lesson_0013": { "Name": "Lesson_0013", "Number": 13, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 2 - Page 12: Black Dog Appears and Disappears", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "we'll put it, if you like, that that cheek's the right one.", "Line_02": "Ah, well! I told you. Now, is my mate Bill in this", "Line_03": "here house?", "Line_04": "I told him he was out walking.", "Line_05": "\"Which way, sonny? Which way is he gone?\"", "Line_06": "And when I had pointed out the rock and told him", "Line_07": "how the captain was likely to return, and how soon, and", "Line_08": "answered a few other questions, \"Ah,\" said he, \"this'll", "Line_09": "be as good as drink to my mate Bill.\"", "Line_10": "the expression of his face as he said these words was", "Line_11": "not at all pleasant, and I had my own reasons for", "Line_12": "thinking that the stranger was mistaken, even supposing", "Line_13": "he meant what he said. But it was no affair of mine,", "Line_14": "I thought; and, besides, it was difficult to know what", "Line_15": "to do. The stranger kept hanging about just inside", "Line_16": "the inn door, peering round the corner like a cat waiting", "Line_17": "for a mouse. Once I stepped out myself into the road,", "Line_18": "but he immediately called me back, and, as I did not", "Line_19": "obey quick enough for his fancy, a most horrible change", "Line_20": "came over his tallowy face, and he ordered me in, with", "Line_21": "an oath that made me jump. As soon as I was back", "Line_22": "again he returned to his former manner, half fawning,", "Line_23": "half sneering, patted me on the shoulder, told me I was", "Line_24": "a good boy, and he had taken quite a fancy to me.", "Line_25": "\"I have a son of my own,\" said he, \"as like you but", "Line_26": "two blocks, and he's all the pride of my 'art. But", "Line_27": "the great thing for boys is discipline, sonny - discipline.", "Line_28": "Now, if you had sailed along of Bill, you wouldn\"t have", "Line_29": "stood there to be spoke to twice - not you. That was" }] }, "Lesson_0014": { "Name": "Lesson_0014", "Number": 14, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 2 - Page 13: Black Dog Appears and Disappears", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "never Bill's way, nor the way of such as sailed with", "Line_02": "him. And here, sure enough, is my mate Bill, with", "Line_03": "a spy-glass under his arm, bless his old 'art, to be", "Line_04": "sure. You and me'll just go back into the parlour,", "Line_05": "sonny, and get behind the door, and we'll give Bill", "Line_06": "a little surprise - bless his 'art, I say again.\"", "Line_07": "So saying, the stranger backed along with me into", "Line_08": "the parlour, and put me behind him in the corner, so", "Line_09": "that we were both hidden by the open door. I was", "Line_10": "very uneasy and alarmed, as you may fancy, and it", "Line_11": "rather added to my fears to observe that the stranger", "Line_12": "was certainly frightened himself. He cleared the hilt", "Line_13": "of his cutlass and loosened the blade in the sheath; and", "Line_14": "all the time we were waiting there he kept swallowing", "Line_15": "as if he felt what we used to call a lump in the throat.", "Line_16": "At last in strode the captain, slammed the door", "Line_17": "behind him, without looking to the right or left, and", "Line_18": "marched straight across the room to where his breakfast", "Line_19": "awaited him.", "Line_20": "\"Bill,\" said the stranger, in a voice that I thought", "Line_21": "he had tried to make bold and big.", "Line_22": "The captain spun round on his heel and fronted us;", "Line_23": "all the brows had gone out of his face, and even his", "Line_24": "nose was blue; he had the look of a man who sees a", "Line_25": "ghost, or the evil one, or something worse, if anything", "Line_26": "can be; and, upon my word, I felt sorry to see him, all", "Line_27": "in a moment, turn so old and sick.", "Line_28": "\"Come, Bill, you know me; you know an old shipmate,", "Line_29": "Bill, surely,\" said the stranger." }] }, "Lesson_0015": { "Name": "Lesson_0015", "Number": 15, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 2 - Page 14: Black Dog Appears and Disappears", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "The captain made a sort of gasp.", "Line_02": "\"Black Dog!\" said he.", "Line_03": "\"And who else?\" returned the other, getting more", "Line_04": "at his ease. \"Black Dog as ever was, come for to see", "Line_05": "his old shipmate Billy, at the \"Admiral Benbow\" inn.", "Line_06": "Ah, Bill Bill, we have seen a sight of times, us two,", "Line_07": "since I lost them two talons,\" holding up his mutilated", "Line_08": "hand.", "Line_09": "\"Now, look here,\" said the captain; \"you've run", "Line_10": "me down; here I am; well, then, speak up: what is it?", "Line_11": "\"That's you, Bill,\" returned Black Dog, \"you're", "Line_12": "in the right of it, Billy. I'll have a glass of rum", "Line_13": "from this dear child here, as I've took such a liking", "Line_14": "to; and we'll sit down, if you please, and talk square,", "Line_15": "like old shipmates.\"", "Line_16": "When I returned with the rum, they were already", "Line_17": "seated on either side of the captain's breakfast table-", "Line_18": "Black Dog next to the door, and sitting sideways, so", "Line_19": "as to have one eye on his old shipmate, and one, as I", "Line_20": "thought, on his retreat.", "Line_21": "He bade me go, and leave the door wide open.", "Line_22": "\"None of your keyholes for me, sonny,\" he said; and", "Line_23": "I left them together, and retired into the bar.", "Line_24": "for a long time, though I certainly did my best to", "Line_25": "listen, I could hear nothing but a low gabbling; but", "Line_26": "at last the voices began to grow higher, and I could", "Line_27": "pick up a word or two, mostly oaths, from the captain.", "Line_28": "\"No, no, no, no; and an end of it!\" he cried" }] }, "Lesson_0016": { "Name": "Lesson_0016", "Number": 16, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 2 - Page 15: Black Dog Appears and Disappears", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "once. And again,\"If it comes to swinging, swing", "Line_02": "all, say I.\"", "Line_03": "Then all of a sudden there was a tremendous", "Line_04": "explosion of oaths and other noises - the chair and table", "Line_05": "went over in a lump, a clash of steel followed, and", "Line_06": "then a cry of pain, and the next instant I saw black", "Line_07": "Dog in full flight, and the captain hotly pursuing, both", "Line_08": "with drawn cutlasses, and the former streaming blood", "Line_09": "from the left shoulder. Just at the door, the captain", "Line_10": "aimed at the fugitive one last tremendous cut, which", "Line_11": "would certainly have split him to the chine had it not", "Line_12": "been intercepted by our big signboard of Admiral", "Line_13": "Benbow. You may see the notch on the lower side of", "Line_14": "the frame to this day.", "Line_15": "That blow was the last of the battle. Once out", "Line_16": "upon the road, Black Dog, in spite of his wound, showed", "Line_17": "a wonderful clean pair of heels, and disappeared over", "Line_18": "the edge of the hill in half a minute. The captain,", "Line_19": "for his part, stood staring at the signboard like a", "Line_20": "bewildered man. Then he passed his hand over his", "Line_21": "eyes several times, and at last turned back into the house.", "Line_22": "\"Jim,\" says he, \"rum;\" and as he spoke, he reeled", "Line_23": "a little, and caught himself with one hand against the wall.", "Line_24": "\"Are you hurt?\" cried I.", "Line_25": "\"Rum,\" he repeated. \"I must get away from", "Line_26": "here. Rum! rum!\"", "Line_27": "I ran to fetch it; but I was quite unsteadied by all" }] }, "Lesson_0017": { "Name": "Lesson_0017", "Number": 17, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 2 - Page 16: Black Dog Appears and Disappears", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "that had fallen out, and I broke one glass and fouled the", "Line_02": "tap, and while I was still getting in my own way, I", "Line_03": "heard a loud fall in the parlour, and, running in, beheld", "Line_04": "the captain lying full length upon the floor. At the", "Line_05": "same instant my mother, alarmed by the cries and", "Line_06": "fighting, came running down-stairs to help me. Between", "Line_07": "us we raised his head. He was breathing very", "Line_08": "loud and hard; but his eyes were closed, and his face", "Line_09": "a horrible colour.", "Line_10": "\"Dear, deary me,\" cried my mother, \"what a", "Line_11": "disgrace upon the house! And your poor father sick!\"", "Line_12": "In the meantime, we had no idea what to do to help", "Line_13": "the captain, nor any other thought but that he had got", "Line_14": "his death-hurt in the scuffle with the stranger. I got", "Line_15": "the rum, to be sure, and tried to put it down his throat;", "Line_16": "but his teeth were tightly shut, and his jaws as strong", "Line_17": "as iron. It was a happy relief for us when the door", "Line_18": "opened and Doctor Livesey came in, on his visit to my father.", "Line_19": "\"Oh, doctor,\" we cried, \"what shall we do?", "Line_20": "Where is he wounded?\"", "Line_21": "\"Wounded? A fiddle-stick's end!\" said the doctor.", "Line_22": "\"No more wounded than you or I. The man has had", "Line_23": "a stroke, as I warned him. Now, Mrs. Hawkins, just", "Line_24": "you run up-stairs to your husband, and tell him, if", "Line_25": "possible, nothing about it. For my part, I must do my", "Line_26": "best to save this fellow's trebly worthless life; and Jim,", "Line_27": "you get me a basin.\"" }] }, "Lesson_0018": { "Name": "Lesson_0018", "Number": 18, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 2 - Page 17: Black Dog Appears and Disappears", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "When I got back with the basin, the doctor had", "Line_02": "already ripped up the captain's sleeve, and exposed his", "Line_03": "great sinewy arm. It was tattooed in several places.", "Line_04": "\"Here's luck,\" \"A fair wind,\" and \"Billy Bones his fancy,\"", "Line_05": "were very neatly and clearly executed on the", "Line_06": "forearm; and up near the shoulder there was a sketch", "Line_07": "of a gallows and a man hanging from it - done, as I", "Line_08": "thought, with great spirit.", "Line_09": "\"Prophetic,\" said the doctor, touching this picture", "Line_10": "with his finger. \"And now, Master Billy Bones, if", "Line_11": "that be your name, we'll have a look at the colour of", "Line_12": "your blood. Jim,\" he said,\" are you afraid of blood?\"", "Line_13": "\"No, sir,\" said I.", "Line_14": "\"Well, then,\" said he,\"you hold the basin;\" and", "Line_15": "with that he took his lancet and opened a vein.", "Line_16": "A great deal of blood was taken before the captain", "Line_17": "opened his eyes and looked mistily around him. First he", "Line_18": "recognised the doctor with an unmistakable frown;", "Line_19": "then his glance fell upon me, and he looked relieved.", "Line_20": "But suddenly his colour changed, and he tried to raise", "Line_21": "himself, crying: -", "Line_22": "\"Where's Black Dog?\"", "Line_23": "\"There is no Black Dog here,\" said the doctor,", "Line_24": "\"except what you have on your own back. You have", "Line_25": "been drinking rum; you have had a stroke, precisely as", "Line_26": "I told you; and I have just, very much against my own", "Line_27": "will, dragged you headforemost out of the grave. Now,", "Line_28": "Mr. Bones--\"" }] }, "Lesson_0019": { "Name": "Lesson_0019", "Number": 19, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 2 - Page 18: Black Dog Appears and Disappears", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "\"That's not my name,\" he interrupted.", "Line_02": "\"Must I care,\" returned the doctor. \"It's the", "Line_03": "name of a buccaneer of my acquaintance; and I call", "Line_04": "you by it for the sake of shortness, and what I have to", "Line_05": "say to you is this: one glass of rum won't kill you, but", "Line_06": "if you take one you'll take another and another, and I", "Line_07": "stake my wig if you don't break off short, you'll die-", "Line_08": "do you understand that? - die, and go to your own place,", "Line_09": "like the man in the Bible. Come, now, make an", "Line_10": "effort. I'll help you to your bed for once.\"", "Line_11": "Between us, with much trouble, we managed to hoist", "Line_12": "him up-stairs, and laid him on his bed, where his head", "Line_13": "fell back on the pillow, as if he were almost fainting.", "Line_14": "\"Now, mind you,\" said the doctor,\"I clear my", "Line_15": "conscience - the name of rum for you is death.", "Line_16": "And with that he went off to see my father, taking", "Line_17": "me with him by the arm.", "Line_18": "\"this is nothing,\" he said, as soon as he had closed", "Line_19": "the door. \"I have drawn blood enough to keep him", "Line_20": "quiet a while; he should lie for a week where he is -", "Line_21": "that is the best thing for him and you; but another", "Line_22": "stroke would settle him.\"" }] }, "Lesson_0020": { "Name": "Lesson_0020", "Number": 20, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 3 - Page 19: The Black Spot", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Chapter 3", "Line_02": "The Black Spot", "Line_03": "About noon I stopped at the captain's door with some", "Line_04": "cooling drinks and medicines. He was lying very", "Line_05": "much as we had left him, only a little higher, and he", "Line_06": "seemed both weak and excited.", "Line_07": "\"Jim,\" he said, \"you're the only one here that's", "Line_08": "worth anything; and you know I've been always good", "Line_09": "to you. Never a month but I've given you a silver", "Line_10": "fourpenny for yourself.", "Line_11": "And now you see, mate, I'm", "Line_12": "pretty low, and deserted by all; and Jim, you'll bring", "Line_13": "me one noggin of rum, now, won't you, matey?\"", "Line_14": "\"The doctor\"--I began.", "Line_15": "But he broke in cursing the doctor, in a feeble", "Line_16": "voice, but heartily. \"Doctors in all swabs,\" he said;", "Line_17": "\"and that doctor there, why, what do he know about", "Line_18": "seafaring men? I been in places hot as pitch, and", "Line_19": "mates dropping round with Yellow Jack, and the blessed", "Line_20": "land a-heaving like the sea with earthquakes-what", "Line_21": "do the doctor know of lands like that? -and I", "Line_22": "lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and rink,", "Line_23": "and man and wife, to me; and if I'm not to have my", "Line_24": "rum now I'm a poor old hulk on a lee shore, my" }] }, "Lesson_0021": { "Name": "Lesson_0021", "Number": 21, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 3 - Page 20: The Black Spot", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "blood 'll be on you, Jim, and that Doctor swab;\"", "Line_02": "and he ran on again for a while with curses. \"Look,", "Line_03": "Jim, how my fingers fidges,\" he continued, in the", "Line_04": "pleading tone. \"I can't keep 'em still, not I. I", "Line_05": "haven't had a drop this blessed day. That doctor's a", "Line_06": "fool, I tell you. If I don't have a drain o' rum,", "Line_07": "Jim, I'll have the horrors; I seen some on 'em already.", "Line_08": "I see old Flint in the corner there, behind you; as", "Line_09": "plain as print, I seen him; and if I get the horrors,", "Line_10": "I'm a man that has lived rough, and I'll raise Cain.", "Line_11": "Your doctor hisself said one glass wouldn't hurt me.", "Line_12": "I'll give you a golden guinea for a noggin, Jim.\"", "Line_13": "He was growing more and more excited, and this", "Line_14": "alarmed me for my father, who was very low that day,", "Line_15": "and needed quite; besides, I was reassured by the", "Line_16": "doctor's words, now quoted to me, and rather offended", "Line_17": "by the offer of a bribe.", "Line_18": "\"I want none of your money,\" said I, \"but what", "Line_19": "you owe my father. I'll get you one glass, and no more.\"", "Line_20": "When I brought it to him, he seized it greedily, and", "Line_21": "drank it out.", "Line_22": "\"Ay, ay,\" said he, \"that's some better, sure", "Line_23": "enough. And now, matey, did that doctor say how", "Line_24": "long I was to lie here in this old berth?\"", "Line_25": "\"A week at least,\" said I.", "Line_26": "\"thunder!\" he cried. \"A week! I can't do", "Line_27": "that: they'd have the black spot on me by then. The", "Line_28": "lubbers is going about to get the wind of me this" }] }, "Lesson_0022": { "Name": "Lesson_0022", "Number": 22, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 3 - Page 21: The Black Spot", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "blessed moment; lubbers as couldn't keep what they", "Line_02": "got, and want to nail what is another's. Is that seamanly", "Line_03": "behaviour, now, I want to know? But I'm a", "Line_04": "saving soul. I never wasted good money of mine, nor", "Line_05": "lost it neither; and I'll trick 'em again. I'm not afraid", "Line_06": "on 'em. I'll shake out another reef, matey, and daddle", "Line_07": "'em again.\"", "Line_08": "As he was thus speaking, he had risen from bed", "Line_09": "with great difficulty, holding to my shoulder with a", "Line_10": "grip that almost made me cry out, and moving his", "Line_11": "legs like so much dead weight. His words, spirited", "Line_12": "as they were in meaning, contrasted sadly with the", "Line_13": "weakness of the voice in which they were uttered.", "Line_14": "He paused when he had got into a sitting position on", "Line_15": "the edge.", "Line_16": "\"That doctor's done me,\" he murmured. \"My ears", "Line_17": "is singing. Lay me back.\"", "Line_18": "Before I could do much to help him he had fallen", "Line_19": "back again to his former place, where he lay for a", "Line_20": "while silent.", "Line_21": "\"Jim,\" he said, at length,\"you saw that seafaring", "Line_22": "man to-day?\"", "Line_23": "\"Black dog?\" I asked.", "Line_24": "\"Ah! Black Dog,\" says he. \"He's a bad 'un; but", "Line_25": "there's worse that put him on. Now, if I can't get", "Line_26": "away nohow, and they tip me the black spot, mind you,", "Line_27": "it's my old sea-chest they're after; you get on a horse", "Line_28": "-you can, can't you? Well, then you get on a horse,", "Line_29": "and go to-well, yes, I will! -to that eternal Doctor" }] }, "Lesson_0023": { "Name": "Lesson_0023", "Number": 23, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 3 - Page 22: The Black Spot", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "swab, and tell him to pipe all hands-magistrates and", "Line_02": "such - and he'll lay 'em aboard at the \"Admiral Benbow\"", "Line_03": "-all old Flint's crew, man and boy, all on 'em that's", "Line_04": "left. I was first mate, I was, old Flint's first mate,", "Line_05": "and I'm the on'y one as knows the place. He gave", "Line_06": "it me at Savannah, when he lay a-dying, like as if I", "Line_07": "was to now, you see. But you won't peach unless they", "Line_08": "get the black spot on me, or unless you see that Black", "Line_09": "Dog again, or a seafaring man with one leg, Jim - him", "Line_10": "above all.\"", "Line_11": "\"But what is the black spot, Captain?\" I asked.", "Line_12": "\"That's a summons, mate. I'll tell you if they get", "Line_13": "that. But you keep your weather-eye open, Jim, and", "Line_14": "I'll share with you equals, upon my honour.\"", "Line_15": "He wandered a little longer, his voice growing", "Line_16": "weaker; but soon after I had given him his medicine,", "Line_17": "which he took like a child, with a remark, \"If", "Line_18": "ever a seaman wanted drugs, it's me,\" he fell at last", "Line_19": "into a heavy, swoon-like sleep, in which I left him.", "Line_20": "What I should have done had all gone well I do not", "Line_21": "know. Probably I should have told the whole story", "Line_22": "to the doctor; for I was in mortal fear lest the", "Line_23": "captain should repent of his confessions and make an", "Line_24": "end of me. But as things fell out, my poor father", "Line_25": "died quite suddenly that evening, which put all other", "Line_26": "matters on one side. Our natural distress, the visits", "Line_27": "of the neighbours, the arranging of the funeral,", "Line_28": "and all the work of the inn to be carried on in the", "Line_29": "meanwhile, kept me so busy that I had scarcely time" }] }, "Lesson_0024": { "Name": "Lesson_0024", "Number": 24, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 3 - Page 23: The Black Spot", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "to think of the captain, far less to be afraid of him.", "Line_02": "He got down-stairs next morning, to be sure, and", "Line_03": "had his meals as usual, though he ate little, and had", "Line_04": "more, I am afraid, than his usual supply of rum, for", "Line_05": "he helped himself out of the bar, scowling and blowing", "Line_06": "through his nose, and no one dared to cross him. On", "Line_07": "the night before the funeral he was as drunk as ever;", "Line_08": "and it was shocking, in that house of mourning, to", "Line_09": "hear him singing away at his ugly old sea-song; but,", "Line_10": "weak as he was, we were all in the fear of death for", "Line_11": "him, and the doctor was suddenly taken up with a case", "Line_12": "many miles away, and was never near the house after", "Line_13": "my father's death. I have said the captain was weak;", "Line_14": "and indeed he seemed rather to grow weaker then regain", "Line_15": "his strength. He clambered up and down-stairs, and", "Line_16": "went from the parlour to the bar and back again, and", "Line_17": "sometimes put his nose out of doors to smell the sea,", "Line_18": "holding on to the walls as he went for support, and", "Line_19": "breathing hard and fast like a man on a steep mountain.", "Line_20": "He never particularly addressed me, and it is my belief", "Line_21": "he had as good as forgotten his confidences; but his", "Line_22": "temper was more flighty, and allowing for his bodily", "Line_23": "weakness, more violent than ever. He had an alarming", "Line_24": "way now when he was drunk of drawing his cutlass and", "Line_25": "laying it bare before him on the table. But, with all", "Line_26": "that, he minded people less, and seemed shut up in his", "Line_27": "own thoughts and rather wandering. Once, for instance,", "Line_28": "to our extreme wonder, he piped up to a different air, a" }] }, "Lesson_0025": { "Name": "Lesson_0025", "Number": 25, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 3 - Page 24: The Black Spot", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "kind of country love-song, that he must have learned", "Line_02": "in his youth before he had begun to follow the sea.", "Line_03": "So things passed until, the day after the funeral,", "Line_04": "and about three o'clock of a bitter, foggy, frosty afternoon,", "Line_05": "I was standing at the door for a moment, full of", "Line_06": "sad thoughts about my father, when I saw some one", "Line_07": "drawing slowly near along the road. He was plainly", "Line_08": "blind, for he tapped before him with a stick, and wore a", "Line_09": "great green shade over his eyes and nose; and he was", "Line_10": "hunched, as if with age or weakness, and wore a huge", "Line_11": "old tattered sea-cloak with a hood, that made him", "Line_12": "appear positively deformed. I never saw in my life a", "Line_13": "more dreadful looking figure. He stopped a little from", "Line_14": "the inn, and raising his voice in an odd sing-song,", "Line_15": "addressed the air in front of him: -", "Line_16": "\"Will any kind friend inform a poor blind man,", "Line_17": "who has lost the precious sight of his eyes in the", "Line_18": "gracious defense of his native country, England, and", "Line_19": "God bless King George! -where or in what part of this", "Line_20": "country he may now be?\"", "Line_21": "\"You are at the \"Admiral Benbow,\" Black Hill", "Line_22": "Cove, my good man,\" said I.", "Line_23": "\"I hear a voice,\" said he-\"a young voice. Will", "Line_24": "you give me your hand, my kind, young friend, and", "Line_25": "lead me in?\"", "Line_26": "I held out my hand, and the horrible, soft-spoken,", "Line_27": "eyeless creature gripped it in a moment like a vice.", "Line_28": "I was so much startled that I struggled to withdraw;" }] }, "Lesson_0026": { "Name": "Lesson_0026", "Number": 26, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 3 - Page 25: The Black Spot", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "but the blind man pulled me close up to him with a", "Line_02": "single action of his arm.", "Line_03": "\"Now, boy,\" he said,\"take me in to the captain.\"", "Line_04": "\"Sir,\" said I, \"upon my word I dare not.\"", "Line_05": "\"Oh,\" he sneered,\"that's it! Take me in straight,", "Line_06": "or I'll break your arm.\"", "Line_07": "And he gave it, as he spoke, a wrench that made", "Line_08": "me cry out.", "Line_09": "\"Sir,\" said I, \"it is for yourself I mean. The", "Line_10": "captain is not what he used to be. He sits with a", "Line_11": "drawn cutlass. Another gentleman\"--", "Line_12": "\"Come, now, march,\" interrupted he; and I never", "Line_13": "heard a voice so cruel, and cold, and ugly as that blind", "Line_14": "man's. It cowed me more than the pain; and I began", "Line_15": "to obey him at once, walking straight in at the door", "Line_16": "and towards the parlour, where our sick old buccaneer", "Line_17": "was sitting, dazed with rum. The blind man clung", "Line_18": "close to me, holding me in one iron fist, and leaning", "Line_19": "almost more of his weight on me than I could carry.", "Line_20": "\"Lead me straight up to him, and when I'm in view,", "Line_21": "cry out,\"Here's a friend for you, Bill.\" If you don't,", "Line_22": "I'll do this;\" and with that he gave me a twitch that", "Line_23": "I thought would have made me faint. Between this", "Line_24": "and that, I was so utterly terrified of the blind beggar", "Line_25": "that I forgot my terror of the captain, and as I opened", "Line_26": "the parlour door, cried out the words he had ordered in", "Line_27": "a trembling voice.", "Line_28": "The poor captain raised his eyes, and at one look", "Line_29": "the rum went out of him, and left him staring sober." }] }, "Lesson_0027": { "Name": "Lesson_0027", "Number": 27, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 3 - Page 26: The Black Spot", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "The expression of his face was not so much of terror", "Line_02": "as of mortal sickness. He made a movement to rise,", "Line_03": "but I do not believe he had enough force left in his body.", "Line_04": "\"Now, Bill, sit where you are,\" said the beggar.", "Line_05": "\"If I can't see, I can hear a finger stirring. Business", "Line_06": "is business. Hold out your left hand. Boy, take his", "Line_07": "left hand by the wrist, and bring it near to my right.\"", "Line_08": "We both obeyed him to the letter, and I saw him", "Line_09": "pass something from the hallow of the hand that held", "Line_10": "his stick into the palm of the captain's, which closed", "Line_11": "upon it instantly.", "Line_12": "\"And now that's done.\" said the blind man; and", "Line_13": "at the words he suddenly left hold of me, and, with", "Line_14": "incredible accuracy and nimbleness, skipped out of the", "Line_15": "parlour and into the road, where, as I still stood motionless,", "Line_16": "I could hear his stick go tap-tap-tapping into the", "Line_17": "distance.", "Line_18": "It was some time before either I or the captain", "Line_19": "seemed to gather our senses; but at length, and about at", "Line_20": "the same moment, I released his wrist, which I was still", "Line_21": "holding, and he drew in his hand and looked sharply", "Line_22": "into the palm.", "Line_23": "\"Ten o'clock!\" he cried. \"Six hours. We'll do", "Line_24": "them yet;\" and he sprang to his feet.", "Line_25": "even as he did so, he reeled, put his hand to his", "Line_26": "throat, stood swaying for a moment, and then, with a", "Line_27": "peculiar sound, fell from his whole height face foremost", "Line_28": "to the floor." }] }, "Lesson_0028": { "Name": "Lesson_0028", "Number": 28, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 3 - Page 27: The Black Spot", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "I ran to him at once, calling to my mother. but", "Line_02": "haste was all in vain. The captain had been struck", "Line_03": "dead by thundering apoplexy. It is a curious thing", "Line_04": "to understand, for I had certainly never liked the man,", "Line_05": "though of late I had begun to pity him, but as soon", "Line_06": "as I saw that he was dead, I burst into a flood of tears.", "Line_07": "It was the second death I had known, and the sorrow", "Line_08": "of the first was still fresh in my heart." }] }, "Lesson_0029": { "Name": "Lesson_0029", "Number": 29, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 4 - Page 28: The Sea Chest", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Chapter 4", "Line_02": "The Sea Chest", "Line_03": "I lost no time, of course, in telling my mother all that", "Line_04": "I knew, and perhaps should have told her long before,", "Line_05": "and we saw ourselves at once in a difficult and dangerous", "Line_06": "position. Some of the man's money - if he had any -", "Line_07": "was certainly due to us; but it was not likely that our", "Line_08": "captain's shipmates, above all the two specimens seen by", "Line_09": "me, Black Dog and the blind beggar, would be inclined", "Line_10": "to give up their booty in payment for the dead man's", "Line_11": "debts. The captain's order to mount at once and ride", "Line_12": "for Doctor Livesey would have left my mother alone", "Line_13": "and unprotected, which was not to be though of.", "Line_14": "indeed, it seemed impossible for either of us to remain", "Line_15": "much longer in the house: the fall of coals in the", "Line_16": "kitchen grate, the very ticking of the click, filled us", "Line_17": "with alarms.The neighbourhood, to our ears, seemed", "Line_18": "haunted by approaching footsteps; and what between", "Line_19": "the dead body of the captain and the parlour floor, and", "Line_20": "the thought of that detestable blind beggar hovering", "Line_21": "near at hand, and ready to return, there were moments", "Line_22": "when, as the saying goes, I jumped in my skin for", "Line_23": "terror. Something must speedily be resolved upon;" }] }, "Lesson_0030": { "Name": "Lesson_0030", "Number": 30, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 4 - Page 29: The Sea Chest", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "and it occurred to us at last to go forth together and", "Line_02": "seek help in the neighbouring hamlet. No sooner", "Line_03": "said than done. Bare-headed as we were, we ran", "Line_04": "out at once in the gathering evening and the frosty fog.", "Line_05": "the hamlet lay not many hundred yards away", "Line_06": "though out of view, on the other side of the next cove;", "Line_07": "and what greatly encouraged me, it was in an opposite", "Line_08": "direction from that whence the blind man had made his", "Line_09": "appearance, and whither he had presumably returned.", "Line_10": "We were not many minutes on the road, though we", "Line_11": "sometimes stopped to lay hold of each other and hearken.", "Line_12": "But there was no unusual sound - nothing but the low", "Line_13": "wash of the ripple and the croaking of the inmates of", "Line_14": "the wood.", "Line_15": "It was already candle-light when we reached the", "Line_16": "hamlet, and I shall never forget how much I was", "Line_17": "cheered to see the yellow shine in doors and windows;", "Line_18": "but that, as it proved, was the best of the help we were", "Line_19": "likely to get in that quarter. For - you would have", "Line_20": "thought men would have been ashamed of themselves -", "Line_21": "no soul would consent to return with us to the \"Admiral", "Line_22": "Benbow.\" the more we told of our troubles, the more -", "Line_23": "man, woman, and child - they clung to the shelter of", "Line_24": "their houses. The name of Captain Flint, though it", "Line_25": "was strange to me, was well enough known to some", "Line_26": "there, and carried a great weight of terror. Some of", "Line_27": "the men who had been to filed-work on the far side of", "Line_28": "the \"Admiral Benbow\" remembered, besides, to have seen", "Line_29": "" }] }, "Lesson_0031": { "Name": "Lesson_0031", "Number": 31, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 4 - Page 30: The Sea Chest", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "several strangers on the road, and, taking them to be", "Line_02": "smugglers, to have bolted away; and one at least had", "Line_03": "seen a little lugger in what we called Kitt's Hole.", "Line_04": "For that matter, any one who was a comrade of the", "Line_05": "captain's was enough to frighten them to death. And", "Line_06": "the short and the long of the matter was, that while we", "Line_07": "could get several who were willing enough to ride to", "Line_08": "Dr. Livesey's which lay in another direction, not one", "Line_09": "would help us to defend the inn.", "Line_10": "They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument", "Line_11": "is, on the other hand, a great emboldener; and so when", "Line_12": "each had said he say, my mother made them a speech.", "Line_13": "She would not, she declared, lose money that belonged", "Line_14": "to her fatherless boy; \"if none of the rest of you dare,\"", "Line_15": "she said,\"Jim and I dare. Back we will go, the way", "Line_16": "we came, and small thanks to you big, hulking, chicken-", "Line_17": "hearted men. We'll have that chest open, if we die for", "Line_18": "it. And I'll thank you for that bag, Mrs. Crossley, to", "Line_19": "bring back our lawful money in.\"", "Line_20": "Of course, I said I would go with my mother; and", "Line_21": "of course they all cried out at our foolhardiness; but", "Line_22": "even then not a man would go along with us. All they", "Line_23": "would do was to give me a loaded pistol, lest we were", "Line_24": "attacked; and to promise to have horses ready saddled,", "Line_25": "in case we were pursued on our return; while one lad", "Line_26": "was to ride forward to the doctor's in search of armed", "Line_27": "assistance.", "Line_28": "My heart was beating finely when we two set forth", "Line_29": "in the cold night upon this dangerous venture. A full" }] }, "Lesson_0032": { "Name": "Lesson_0032", "Number": 32, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 4 - Page 31: The Sea Chest", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "moon was beginning to rise and peered redly through", "Line_02": "the upper edges of the fog, and this increased our haste,", "Line_03": "for it was plain, before we came forth again, that", "Line_04": "all would be as bright as day, and our departure exposed to", "Line_05": "the eyes of any watchers. We slipped along the hedges,", "Line_06": "noiseless and swift, nor did we see or hear anything to", "Line_07": "increase our terrors, till, to our relief, the door of the", "Line_08": "\"Admiral Benbow\" had closed behind us.", "Line_09": "I slipped the bolt at once, and we stood and", "Line_10": "panted for a moment in the dark, alone in the house", "Line_11": "with the dead captain's body. Then my mother got a", "Line_12": "candle in the bar, and, holding each other's hands, we", "Line_13": "advanced into the parlour. He lay as we had left", "Line_14": "him, on his back, with his eyes open, and one arm", "Line_15": "stretched out.", "Line_16": "\"Draw down the blind, Jim,\" whispered my", "Line_17": "mother; \"they might come and watch outside. And", "Line_18": "now,\" said she, when I had done so,\"we have to get", "Line_19": "the key off that; and who's to touch it, I should like to", "Line_20": "know!\" and she gave a kind of sob as she said the words.", "Line_21": "I went down on my knees at once. On the floor", "Line_22": "close to his hand there was a little round of paper,", "Line_23": "blackened on the one side. I could not doubt that this", "Line_24": "was the black spot; and taking it up, I found written", "Line_25": "on the other side, in a very good, clear hand, this short", "Line_26": "message: \"You have till ten to-night.\"", "Line_27": "\"He had till ten, mother,\" said I; and just as I", "Line_28": "said it, our old clock began striking. This sudden" }] }, "Lesson_0033": { "Name": "Lesson_0033", "Number": 33, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 4 - Page 32: The Sea Chest", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "noise startled us shockingly; but the new was good,", "Line_02": "for it was only six.", "Line_03": "\"Now, Jim,\" she said,\"that key.\"", "Line_04": "I felt in his pockets, one after another. A few", "Line_05": "small coins, a thimble, and some thread and big", "Line_06": "needles, a piece of pigtail tobacco bitten away at the", "Line_07": "end, his gully with the crooked handle, a picket compass,", "Line_08": "and a tinder box, were all that they contained, and", "Line_09": "I began to despair.", "Line_10": "\"Perhaps it's round his neck,\" suggested my mother.", "Line_11": "overcoming a strong repugnance, I tore open his", "Line_12": "shirt at the neck, and there, sure enough, hanging to", "Line_13": "a bit of tarry string, which I cut with how own gully,", "Line_14": "we found the key. At this triumph we were filled with", "Line_15": "hope, and hurried up-stairs, without delay, to the little", "Line_16": "room where he had slept so long, and where his box had", "Line_17": "stood since the day of his arrival.", "Line_18": "It was like any other seaman's chest on the outside,", "Line_19": "the initial \"B.\" burned on the top of it with a hot", "Line_20": "iron, and the corners somewhat smashed, and broken as", "Line_21": "by long, rough usage.", "Line_22": "\"Give me the key,\" said my mother; and though", "Line_23": "the lock was very stiff, she had turned it and thrown", "Line_24": "back the lid in a twinkling.", "Line_25": "A strong smell of tobacco and tar rose from the", "Line_26": "interior, but nothing was to be seen on the top except", "Line_27": "a suit of very good clothes, carefully brushed and", "Line_28": "folded. They had never been worn, my mother said." }] }, "Lesson_0034": { "Name": "Lesson_0034", "Number": 34, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 4 - Page 33: The Sea Chest", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Under tha, the miscellany began - a quadrant, a", "Line_02": "tin canikin, several sticks of tobacco, two brace of", "Line_03": "very handsome pistols, a piece of bar silver, an old", "Line_04": "Spanish watch and some other trinkets of little value", "Line_05": "and mostly of foreign make, a pair of compasses", "Line_06": "mounted with brass, and five or six curious West", "Line_07": "Indian shells. I have often wondered since why he", "Line_08": "should have carried about these shells with him in his", "Line_09": "wandering, guilty, and hunted life.", "Line_10": "In the meantime, we had found nothing of any", "Line_11": "value but the silver and the trinkets, and neither of", "Line_12": "these were in our way. Underneath there was an old", "Line_13": "boat-cloak, whitened with sea-salt on many a harbourbar.", "Line_14": "My mother pulled it up with impatience, and", "Line_15": "there lay before us, the last things in the chest, a", "Line_16": "bundle tied up in oilcloth, and looking like papers, and", "Line_17": "a canvas bag, that gave forth, at a touch, the jingle of", "Line_18": "gold.", "Line_19": "\"I'll show these rogues that I'm an honest woman,\"", "Line_20": "said my mother. \"I'll have my dues, and not a", "Line_21": "farthing over. Hold Mrs. Crossley's bag.\" and she", "Line_22": "began to count over the amount of the captain's score", "Line_23": "from the sailor's bag into the one that I was holding.", "Line_24": "It was a long, difficult business, for the coins were", "Line_25": "of all countries and sizes - doubloons, and louis-d'ours,", "Line_26": "and guineas, and pieces of eight, and I know not what", "Line_27": "besides, all shaken together at random. The guineas,", "Line_28": "too, were about the scarcest, and it was with these only", "Line_29": "that my mother knew how to make her count." }] }, "Lesson_0035": { "Name": "Lesson_0035", "Number": 35, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 4 - Page 34: The Sea Chest", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "when we were about half way through, I suddenly", "Line_02": "put my hand upon her arm; for I had heard in the", "Line_03": "silent, frosty air, a sound that brought my heart into", "Line_04": "my mouth - the tap-tapping of the blind man's stick", "Line_05": "upon the frozen road. It drew nearer and nearer, while", "Line_06": "we sat holding our breath. Then it struck sharp on the", "Line_07": "inn door, and then we could hear the handle being", "Line_08": "turned, and bolt rattling as the wretched being", "Line_09": "tried to enter; and then there was a long time", "Line_10": "of silence both within and without. At last the", "Line_11": "tapping re-commenced, and, to our indescribable joy", "Line_12": "and gratitude, died slowly away again until it", "Line_13": "ceased to be heard.", "Line_14": "\"Mother,\" said I,\"take the whole and lets be", "Line_15": "going;\" for I was sure the bolted door must have", "Line_16": "seemed suspicious, and would bring the whole hornet's", "Line_17": "nets about our ears; though how thankful I was that", "Line_18": "I had bolted it, none could tell who had never met that", "Line_19": "terrible blind man.", "Line_20": "but my mother, frightened as she was, would not", "Line_21": "consent to take a fraction more than was due to her,", "Line_22": "and was obstinately unwilling to be content with less.", "Line_23": "It was not even seven, she said, by a long way; she", "Line_24": "knew her rights and she would have them, and she was", "Line_25": "still arguing with me, when a little low whistle sounded", "Line_26": "a good way off upon the hill. That was enough, and", "Line_27": "more than enough, for both of us.", "Line_28": "\"I'll take what I have,\" she said, jumping to her feet." }] }, "Lesson_0036": { "Name": "Lesson_0036", "Number": 36, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 4 - Page 35: The Sea Chest", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "\"and I'll take this to square the count,\" said I,", "Line_02": "picking up the oilskin packet.", "Line_03": "Next moment we were both groping down-stairs,", "Line_04": "leaving the candle by the empty chest; and the next we", "Line_05": "had opened the door and were in full retreat. We", "Line_06": "had not started a moment too soon. The fog was", "Line_07": "rapidly dispersing; already the moon shone quite clear", "Line_08": "on the high ground on either side; and it was only in", "Line_09": "the exact bottom of the dell and round the tavern door", "Line_10": "that a thin veil still hung unbroken to conceal the first", "Line_11": "steps of our escape. Far less than half-way to the", "Line_12": "hamlet, very little beyond the bottom of the hill, we", "Line_13": "must come forth into the moonlight. Nor was this", "Line_14": "all; for the sound of several footsteps running came", "Line_15": "already to our ears, and as we looked back in their", "Line_16": "direction, a light tossing to and fro and still rapidly", "Line_17": "advancing, showed that one of the new-comers carried", "Line_18": "a lantern.", "Line_19": "\"My dear,\" said my mother suddenly,\"take the", "Line_20": "money and run on. I am going to faint.\"", "Line_21": "This was certainly the end for both of us, I thought.", "Line_22": "How I cursed the cowardice of the neighbours; how", "Line_23": "I blamed my poor mother for her honesty and her", "Line_24": "greed, for her past foolhardiness and present weakness!", "Line_25": "We were just at the little bridge, by good fortune;", "Line_26": "and I helped her, tottering as she was, to the edge of", "Line_27": "the bank, where, sure enough, she gave a sigh and", "Line_28": "fell on my shoulder. I do not know how i found the", "Line_29": "strength to do it at all, and I am afraid it was roughly" }] }, "Lesson_0037": { "Name": "Lesson_0037", "Number": 37, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 4 - Page 36: The Sea Chest", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "done, but I managed to drag her down the bank and", "Line_02": "a little way under the arch. Farther i could not move", "Line_03": "her, for the bridge was too low to let me do more than", "Line_04": "crawl below it. So there we had to stay - my mother", "Line_05": "almost entirely exposed, and both of us within earshot", "Line_06": "of the inn." }] }, "Lesson_0038": { "Name": "Lesson_0038", "Number": 38, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 5 - Page 37: The Last of the Blind Man", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Chapter 5", "Line_02": "The Last of the Blind Man", "Line_03": "My curiosity, in a sense, was stronger than my fear;", "Line_04": "for I could not remain where I was, but crept back", "Line_05": "to the bank again, whence, sheltering my head behind", "Line_06": "a bush of broom, I might command the road before", "Line_07": "our door. I was scarcely in position ere my enemies", "Line_08": "began to arrive, seven or eight of them, running hard,", "Line_09": "their feet beating out of time along the road, and the", "Line_10": "man with the lantern some paces in front. Three men", "Line_11": "ran together, hand in hand; and I made out, even", "Line_12": "through the mist, that the middle man of this trio was", "Line_13": "the blind beggar. The next moment his voice showed", "Line_14": "me that I was right.", "Line_15": "\"Down with the door!\" he cried.", "Line_16": "\"Ay, ay, sir!\" answered two or three; and a rush", "Line_17": "was made upon the \"Admiral Benbow,\" the lantern-", "Line_18": "bearer following; and then I could see them pause, and", "Line_19": "hear speeches passed in a lower key, as if they were", "Line_20": "surprised to find the door open. But the pause was", "Line_21": "brief, for the blind man again issued his commands.", "Line_22": "His voice sounded louder and higher, as if he were", "Line_23": "afire with eagerness and rage." }] }, "Lesson_0039": { "Name": "Lesson_0039", "Number": 39, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 5 - Page 38: The Last of the Blind Man", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "\"In, in, in!\" he shouted, and cursed them for", "Line_02": "their delay.", "Line_03": "For or five of them obeyed at once, two remaining", "Line_04": "on the road with the formidable beggar. There was a", "Line_05": "pause, then a cry of surprise, and then a voice shouting", "Line_06": "from the house: -", "Line_07": "\"Bill's dead;\"", "Line_08": "But the blind man swore at them again for their delay.", "Line_09": "\"Search him, some of you shirking lubbers, and the", "Line_10": "rest of you aloft and get the chest,\" he cried.", "Line_11": "I could hear their feet rattling up our old stairs, so", "Line_12": "that the house must have shook with it. Promptly", "Line_13": "afterwards, fresh sounds of astonishment arose; the", "Line_14": "window of the captain's room was thrown open with a", "Line_15": "slam and a jingle of broken glass, and a man leaned", "Line_16": "out into the moonlight, head and shoulders, and addressed", "Line_17": "the blind beggar on the road below him.", "Line_18": "\"Pew,\" he cried,\"they've been before us. Some", "Line_19": "one's turned the chest out alow and aloft.\"", "Line_20": "\"Is it there?\" roared Pew.", "Line_21": "\"The money's there.\"", "Line_22": "The blind man cursed the money.", "Line_23": "\"Flint's fist, I mean,\" he cried.", "Line_24": "\"We don't see it here nohow,\" returned the man.", "Line_25": "\"Here, you below there, is it on Bill?\" cried the", "Line_26": "blind man again.", "Line_27": "At that, another fellow, probably him who had remained", "Line_28": "below to search the captain's body, came to the" }] }, "Lesson_0040": { "Name": "Lesson_0040", "Number": 40, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 5 - Page 39: The Last of the Blind Man", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "door of the inn. \"Bill's been overhauled a'ready,\" said", "Line_02": "he, \"nothin' left.\"", "Line_03": "\"It's these people of the inn - it's that boy. I wish", "Line_04": "I had put his eyes out!\" cried the blind man, Pew.", "Line_05": "\"They were here no time ago - they had the door bolted", "Line_06": "when I tried it. Scatter, lads, and find 'em.\"", "Line_07": "\"Sure enough, they left their glim here,\" said the", "Line_08": "fellow from the window.", "Line_09": "\"Scatter and find'em! Rout the house out!\" reiterated Pew,", "Line_10": "striking with his stick upon the road.", "Line_11": "Then there followed a great to-do through all our", "Line_12": "old inn, heavy feet pounding to and fro, furniture", "Line_13": "thrown over, doors kicked in, until the very rocks reechoed,", "Line_14": "and the men came out again, one after another,", "Line_15": "on the road, and declared that we were nowhere to be", "Line_16": "found. And just then the same whistle that had", "Line_17": "alarmed my mother and myself over the dead captain's", "Line_18": "money was one more clearly audible through the", "Line_19": "night, but this time twice repeated. I had thought it", "Line_20": "to be the blind man's trumpet, so to speak, summoning", "Line_21": "his crew to the assault; but I now found that it was a", "Line_22": "signal from the hillside towards the hamlet, and, from its", "Line_23": "effect upon the buccaneers, a signal to warn them of", "Line_24": "approaching danger.", "Line_25": "\"There's Dirk again,\" said one. \"Twice! We'll", "Line_26": "have to budge, mates.\"", "Line_27": "\"Budge, you skulk!\" cried Pew. \"Dirk was a", "Line_28": "fool and a coward from the first - you wouldn't mind", "Line_29": "him. They must be close by; they can't be far; you" }] }, "Lesson_0041": { "Name": "Lesson_0041", "Number": 41, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 5 - Page 40: The Last of the Blind Man", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "have your hands on it. Scatter and look for them,", "Line_02": "dogs! Oh, shiver my soul,\" he cried,\"if I had eyes!\"", "Line_03": "This appeal seemed to produce some effect, for two", "Line_04": "of the fellows began to look here and there among the", "Line_05": "lumber, but half-heartedly, I thought, and with half an", "Line_06": "eye to their own danger all the time, while the rest stood", "Line_07": "irresolute on the road.", "Line_08": "\"You have your hands on thousands, you fools, and", "Line_09": "you hang a leg! You'd be as rich as kings if you could", "Line_10": "find it, and you know it's here, and you stand there", "Line_11": "skulking. There wasn't one of you dared face Bill,", "Line_12": "and I did it - a blind man! And I'm to lose my chance", "Line_13": "for you! I'm to be a poor, crawling beggar, sponging", "Line_14": "for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach! If you", "Line_15": "had the pluck of a weevil in a biscuit you would catch", "Line_16": "them still.\"", "Line_17": "\"Hang it, Pew, we've got the doubloons!\" grumbled", "Line_18": "one.", "Line_19": "\"They might have hid the blessed thing,\" said", "Line_20": "another. \"Take the Georges, pew, and don't stand", "Line_21": "here squalling.\"", "Line_22": "Squalling was the word for it, Pew's anger rose", "Line_23": "so high at these objections; till at last, his passion", "Line_24": "completely taking the upper hand, he struck at them", "Line_25": "right and left in his blindness, and his stick sounded", "Line_26": "heavily on more than one.", "Line_27": "These, in their turn cursed back at the blind", "Line_28": "miscreant, threatened him in horrid terms, and tried in", "Line_29": "rain to catch the stick and wrest it from his grasp." }] }, "Lesson_0042": { "Name": "Lesson_0042", "Number": 42, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 5 - Page 41: The Last of the Blind Man", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "This quarrel was the saving of us; for while it was", "Line_02": "still raging, another sound came from the top of the hill", "Line_03": "on the side of the hamlet - the tramp of horses galloping.", "Line_04": "Almost at the same time a pistol-shot, flash and report,", "Line_05": "came from the hedge side. And that was plainly the", "Line_06": "last signal of danger; for the buccaneers turned at once", "Line_07": "an ran, separating in every direction, one seaward", "Line_08": "along the cove, one slant across the hill, and so on, so", "Line_09": "that in half a minute not a sign of them remained but", "Line_10": "Pew. Him they had deserted, whether in sheer panic", "Line_11": "or out of revenge for his ill words and blows, I know", "Line_12": "not; but there he remained behind, tapping up and", "Line_13": "down the road in a frenzy, and groping and calling", "Line_14": "for his comrades. Finally he took the wrong turn", "Line_15": "ran ran a few steps past me, towards the hamlet,", "Line_16": "crying: -", "Line_17": "\"Johnny, Black Dog, Dirk,\" and other names,\"you", "Line_18": "won't leave old Pew, mates - not old Pew!\"", "Line_19": "Just then the noise of horses topped the rise, and", "Line_20": "four or five riders came in sight in the moonlight, and", "Line_21": "swept at full gallop down the slope.", "Line_22": "At this Pew saw his error, turned with a scream,", "Line_23": "and ran straight for the ditch, into which he rolled.", "Line_24": "but he was on his feet again in a second, and made", "Line_25": "another dash, now utterly bewildered, right under the", "Line_26": "nearest of the coming horses.", "Line_27": "The rider tried to save him, but in vain. Down", "Line_28": "went Pew with a cry that rang high into the night;", "Line_29": "and the four hoofs trampled and spurned him and" }] }, "Lesson_0043": { "Name": "Lesson_0043", "Number": 43, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 5 - Page 42: The Last of the Blind Man", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "passed by. He fell on his side, then gently collapsed", "Line_02": "upon his face, and moved no more.", "Line_03": "I leaped to my feet and hailed the riders. They were", "Line_04": "pulling up, at any rate, horrified at the accident; and I", "Line_05": "soon saw what they were. One tailing out behind the", "Line_06": "rest, was a lad that had gone from the hamlet to Dr.", "Line_07": "Livesey's; the rest were revenue officers, whom he had", "Line_08": "met by the way, and with whom he had had the intelligence", "Line_09": "to return at once. Some news of the lugger in", "Line_10": "Kitt's Hole had found its way to Supervisor Dance, and", "Line_11": "set him forth that night in our direction, and to that", "Line_12": "circumstance my mother and I owed our preservation", "Line_13": "from death.", "Line_14": "Pew was dead, stone dead. As for my mother, when", "Line_15": "we had carried her up to the hamlet, a little cold water", "Line_16": "and salts and that soon brought her back again, and she", "Line_17": "was none the worse for her terror, though she still", "Line_18": "continued to deplore the balance of the money. In the", "Line_19": "meantime the supervisor rode on, as fasts as he could, to", "Line_20": "Kitt's Hole; but his men had to dismount and grope", "Line_21": "down the dingle, leading, and sometimes supporting,", "Line_22": "their horses, and in continual fear of ambushes; so it", "Line_23": "was no great matter for surprise that when they got", "Line_24": "down to the Hole the lugger was already under way,", "Line_25": "though still close in. He hailed her. A voice replied,", "Line_26": "telling him to keep out of the moonlight, or he would", "Line_27": "get some lead in him, and at the same time a bullet", "Line_28": "whistled close by his arm. Soon after, the lugger", "Line_29": "doubled the point and disappeared. Mr. Dance stood" }] }, "Lesson_0044": { "Name": "Lesson_0044", "Number": 44, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 5 - Page 43: The Last of the Blind Man", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "there, as he said,\"like a fish out of water,\" and all he", "Line_02": "could do was to despatch a man to B-- to warn the", "Line_03": "cutter. \"And that,\" said he,\" is just about as good as", "Line_04": "nothing. They've got off clean, and there's an end.", "Line_05": "Only,\" he added,\"I'm glad I trod on Master Pew's", "Line_06": "corns;\" for by this time he had heard my story.", "Line_07": "I went back with him to the \"Admiral Benbow,\"", "Line_08": "and you cannot imagine a house in such a state of", "Line_09": "smash; the very clock had been thrown down by these", "Line_10": "fellows in their furious hunt after my mother and myself;", "Line_11": "and though nothing had actually been taken away", "Line_12": "except the captain's money-bag and a little silver from", "Line_13": "the till, I could see at once that we were ruined. Mr.", "Line_14": "Dance could make nothing of the scene.", "Line_15": "\"They got the money, you say? Well, then,", "Line_16": "Hawkins, what in fortune were they after? More", "Line_17": "money, I suppose?\"", "Line_18": "\"No, sir; not money, I think,\" replied I. \"In", "Line_19": "fact, sir, I believe I have the thing in my breast-", "Line_20": "pocket; and, to tell you the truth, I should like to", "Line_21": "get it put in safety.\"", "Line_22": "\"To be sure, boy; quite right,\" said he. \"I'll", "Line_23": "take it, if you like.\"", "Line_24": "\"I thought, perhaps, Dr. Livesey\" - I began.", "Line_25": "\"Perfectly right,\" he interrupted, very cheerily,", "Line_26": "\"perfectly right - a gentleman and a magistrate.", "Line_27": "And, now I come to think of it, I might as well ride", "Line_28": "round there myself and report to him or squire.", "Line_29": "Master Pew's dead, when all's done; not that I regret" }] }, "Lesson_0045": { "Name": "Lesson_0045", "Number": 45, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 5 - Page 44: The Last of the Blind Man", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "it, but he's dead, you see, and people will make it out", "Line_02": "against an officer of his Majesty's revenue, if make it", "Line_03": "out they can. Now, I'll tell you, Hawkins: if you like,", "Line_04": "I'll take you along.\"", "Line_05": "I thanked him heartily for the officer, and we walked", "Line_06": "back to the hamlet where the horses were. By the", "Line_07": "time I had told mother of my purpose they were all in", "Line_08": "the saddle.", "Line_09": "\"Dogger,\" said Mr. Dance,\"you have a good", "Line_10": "horse; take up this lad behind you.\"", "Line_11": "As soon as I was mounted, holding on to Dogger's", "Line_12": "belt, the supervisor gave the word, and the party", "Line_13": "struck out at a bouncing trot on the road to Dr.", "Line_14": "Livesey's house." }] }, "Lesson_0046": { "Name": "Lesson_0046", "Number": 46, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 6 - Page 45: The Captain's Papers", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Chapter 6", "Line_02": "The Captain's Papers", "Line_03": "We rode hard all the way, till we drew up before Dr.", "Line_04": "Livesey's door. The house was all dark to the", "Line_05": "front.", "Line_06": "Mr. Dance told me to jump down and knock, and", "Line_07": "Dogger gave me a stirrup to descend by. The door was", "Line_08": "opened almost at once by the maid.", "Line_09": "\"Is Dr. Livesey in?\" I asked.", "Line_10": "No, she said; he had come home in the afternoon,", "Line_11": "but had gone up to the Hall to dine and pass the", "Line_12": "evening with the squire.", "Line_13": "\"So there we go, boys,\" said Mr. Dance.", "Line_14": "This time, as the distance was short, I did not", "Line_15": "mount, but ran with Dogger's stirrup-leather to the", "Line_16": "lodge gates, and up the long, leafless, moonlit avenue", "Line_17": "to where the white line of the Hall buildings looked on", "Line_18": "either hand on great old gardens. Here Mr. Dance", "Line_19": "dismounted, and, taking me along with him, was admitted", "Line_20": "at a word into the house.", "Line_21": "the servant led us down a matted passage, and", "Line_22": "showed us at the end into a great library, all lined with", "Line_23": "bookcases and busts upon the top of them, where the" }] }, "Lesson_0047": { "Name": "Lesson_0047", "Number": 47, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 6 - Page 46: The Captain's Papers", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "squire and Dr. Livesey sat, pipe in hand, on either side", "Line_02": "of a bright fire.", "Line_03": "I had never seen the squire so near at hand. He", "Line_04": "was a tall man, over six feet high, and broad in", "Line_05": "proportion, and he had a bluff, rough-and-ready face, all", "Line_06": "roughened and reddened and lined in his long travels.", "Line_07": "His eyebrows were very black, and moved readily, and", "Line_08": "this gave him a look of some temper, not bad, you", "Line_09": "would say, but quick and high.", "Line_10": "\"Come in, Mr. Dance,\" says he, very stately and", "Line_11": "condescending.", "Line_12": "\"Good evening, Dance,\" says the doctor, with a nod.", "Line_13": "\"And good evening to you, friend Jim. What good", "Line_14": "wind brings you here?\"", "Line_15": "The supervisor stood up straight and stiff, and", "Line_16": "told his story like a lesson; and you should have seen", "Line_17": "how the two gentlemen leaned forward and looked at", "Line_18": "each other, and forgot to smoke in their surprise and", "Line_19": "interest. When they heard how my mother went back", "Line_20": "to the inn, Dr. Livesey fairly slapped his thigh, and", "Line_21": "the squire cried \"Bravo!\" and broke his long pipe", "Line_22": "against the grate. Long before it was done, Mr.", "Line_23": "Trelawney (that, you will remember, was the squire's", "Line_24": "name) had got up from his seat, and was striding about", "Line_25": "the room, and the doctor, as if to hear the better, had", "Line_26": "taken off his powdered wig, and sat there, looking", "Line_27": "very strange indeed with his own close-cropped, black", "Line_28": "poll.", "Line_29": "At last Mr. Dance finished the story." }] }, "Lesson_0048": { "Name": "Lesson_0048", "Number": 48, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 6 - Page 47: The Captain's Papers", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "\"Mr. Dance,\" said the squire,\"you are a very", "Line_02": "nobel fellow. And as for riding down that black,", "Line_03": "atrocious miscreant, I regard it as an act of virtue, sir,", "Line_04": "like stamping on a cockroach. This lad Hawkins is a", "Line_05": "trump, I perceive. Hawkins, will you ring that bell?", "Line_06": "Mr. Dance must have some ale.\"", "Line_07": "\"and so, Jim,\" said the doctor,\"you have the", "Line_08": "thing that they were after, have you?\"", "Line_09": "\"Here it is, sir,\" said I, and gave him the oilskin", "Line_10": "packet.", "Line_11": "The doctor looked it all over, as if his fingers were", "Line_12": "itching to open it; but, instead of doing that, he put it", "Line_13": "quietly in the pocket of his coat.", "Line_14": "\"Squire,\" said he,\"when Dance has had his ale he", "Line_15": "must, of course, be off on his Majesty's service; but I", "Line_16": "mean to keep Jim Hawkins here to sleep at my house,", "Line_17": "and, with your permission, I propose we should have up", "Line_18": "the cold pie, and let him sup.\"", "Line_19": "\"As you will, Livesey,\" said the squire; \"Hawkins", "Line_20": "has earned better than cold pie.\"", "Line_21": "So a big pigeon pie was brought in and put on a", "Line_22": "side-table, and I made a hearty supper, for I was", "Line_23": "as hungry as a hawk, while Mr. Dance was further", "Line_24": "complimented, and at last dismissed.", "Line_25": "\"And now, squire,\" said the doctor.", "Line_26": "\"And now, Livesey,\" said the squire, in the same breath.", "Line_27": "\"One at a time, one at a time,\" laughed Dr. Livesey.", "Line_28": "\"You have heard of this Flint, I suppose?\"" }] }, "Lesson_0049": { "Name": "Lesson_0049", "Number": 49, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 6 - Page 48: The Captain's Papers", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "\"Heard of him!\" cried the squire. \"Heard of", "Line_02": "him, you say! He was the bloodthirstiest buccaneer", "Line_03": "that sailed. Blackbeard was a child to Flint. The", "Line_04": "Spaniards were so prodigiously afraid of him, that, I", "Line_05": "tell you, sir, I was sometimes proud he was an Englishman.", "Line_06": "I've seen his top-sails with these eyes, off", "Line_07": "Trinidad, and the cowardly son of a rum-puncheon that", "Line_08": "I sailed with put back-put back, sir, into Port of", "Line_09": "Spain.\"", "Line_10": "\"Well, I've heard of him myself, in England,\" said", "Line_11": "the doctor. \"But the point is, had he money?\"", "Line_12": "\"Money!\" cried the squire. \"Have you heard the", "Line_13": "story? What were these villains after but money?", "Line_14": "What do they care for but money? For what would", "Line_15": "they risk their rascal carcases but money?\"", "Line_16": "\"that we shall soon know,\" replied the doctor.", "Line_17": "\"But you are so confoundedly hot-headed and exclamatory", "Line_18": "that I cannot get a word in. What I want to", "Line_19": "know is this: Supposing that I have here in my pocket", "Line_20": "some clue to where Flint buried his treasure, will that", "Line_21": "treasure amount to much?\"", "Line_22": "\"Amount, sir!\" cried the squire. \"It will amount", "Line_23": "to this: if we have the clue you talk about, I fit out", "Line_24": "a ship in Bristol dock, and take you and Hawkins", "Line_25": "here along, and I'll have that treasure if I search a", "Line_26": "year.\"", "Line_27": "\"Very well,\" said the doctor. \"Now, then, if Jim", "Line_28": "is agreeable, we'll open the packet;\" and he laid it", "Line_29": "before him on the table." }] }, "Lesson_0050": { "Name": "Lesson_0050", "Number": 50, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 6 - Page 49: The Captain's Papers", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "The bundle was sewn together, and the doctor had to", "Line_02": "get out his instrument-case, and cut the stitches with", "Line_03": "his medical scissors. It contained two things - a book", "Line_04": "and a sealed paper.", "Line_05": "\"First of all we'll try the book,\" observe the", "Line_06": "doctor.", "Line_07": "The squire and I were both peering over his shoulder", "Line_08": "as he opened it, for Dr. Livesey had kindly motioned me", "Line_09": "to come around from the side-table, where I had been", "Line_10": "eating, to enjoy the port of the search. On the first", "Line_11": "page there were only some scraps of writing, such as", "Line_12": "a man with a pen in his hand might make for idleness or", "Line_13": "practice. One was the same as the tattoo mark,\"Billy", "Line_14": "Bones his fancy;\" then there was \"Mr. W. Bones,", "Line_15": "mate.\" \"No more rum.\" \"Off Palm Key he got itt;\"", "Line_16": "and some other snatches, mostly single words and", "Line_17": "unintelligible. I could not help wondering who it was", "Line_18": "that had \"got itt,\" and what \"itt\" was that he got.", "Line_19": "A knife in his back as like as not.", "Line_20": "\"Not much instruction there,\" said Dr. Livesey, as", "Line_21": "he passed on.", "Line_22": "The next ten or twelve pages were filled with a", "Line_23": "curious series of entries. There was a date at one end", "Line_24": "of the line and at the other a sum of money, as in", "Line_25": "common account-books; but instead of explanatory", "Line_26": "writing, only a varying number of crosses between", "Line_27": "the two. Ou the 1th of June, 1745, for instance,", "Line_28": "a sum of seventy pounds had plainly become due to", "Line_29": "some one, and there was nothing but six crosses to" }] }, "Lesson_0051": { "Name": "Lesson_0051", "Number": 51, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 6 - Page 50: The Captain's Papers", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "explain the cause. In a few cases, to be sure, the", "Line_02": "name of a place would be added, as \"Offe Caraccas;\" or", "Line_03": "a mere entry of latitude and longitude, as \"62-deg, 17-min, 20-sec\",", "Line_04": "\"19-deg, 2-min, 40-sec.\"", "Line_05": "The record lasted over nearly twenty years, the", "Line_06": "amount of the separate entries growing larger as time", "Line_07": "went on, and at the end a grand total had been made", "Line_08": "out after five or six wrong additions, and these words", "Line_09": "appended,\"Bones, his pile.\"", "Line_10": "\"I can't make head or tail of this,\" said Dr. Livesey.", "Line_11": "\"The thing is as clear as noonday,\" cried the squire.", "Line_12": "\"this is the black-hearted hounds\" account-book. These", "Line_13": "crosses stand for the names of ships or towns that they", "Line_14": "sank or plundered. The sums are the scoundrel's share,", "Line_15": "and where he feared an ambiguity, you see he added", "Line_16": "something clearer. \"Offe Caraccas,\" now; you see, here", "Line_17": "was some unhappy vessel boarded off that coast. God", "Line_18": "help the poor souls that manned her - coral long", "Line_19": "ago.\"", "Line_20": "\"right!\" said the doctor. \"See what it is to be", "Line_21": "a traveller. Right! And the amounts increase, you", "Line_22": "see, as he rose in rank.\"", "Line_23": "There was little else in the volume but a few bearings", "Line_24": "of places noted in the blank leaves towards the end, and", "Line_25": "a table for reducing French, English, and Spanish", "Line_26": "moneys to a common value.", "Line_27": "\"Thrifty man!\" cried the doctor. \"He wasn't the", "Line_28": "one to be cheated.\"", "Line_29": "\"And now,\" said the squire,\"for the other.\"" }] }, "Lesson_0052": { "Name": "Lesson_0052", "Number": 52, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 6 - Page 51: The Captain's Papers", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "The paper has been sealed in several places with a", "Line_02": "thimble by way of seal; the very thimble, perhaps, that", "Line_03": "I had found in the captain's pocket. The doctor opened", "Line_04": "the seals with great care, and there fell out the map of", "Line_05": "an island, with latitude and longitude, soundings, names", "Line_06": "of hills, and bays and inlets, and every particular that", "Line_07": "would be needed to bring a ship to a safe anchorage", "Line_08": "upon its shores. It was about nine miles long", "Line_09": "and five across, shaped, you might say, like a fat", "Line_10": "dragon standing up, and had two fine land-locked", "Line_11": "harbours, and a hill in the centre part marked \"The", "Line_12": "Spy-glass.\" There were several additions of a later", "Line_13": "date; but, above all, three crosses of red ink - two on", "Line_14": "the north part of the island, one in the south-west, and,", "Line_15": "beside this last, in the same red ink, and in a small,", "Line_16": "neat hand, very different from the captain's tottery", "Line_17": "characters, these words: - \"Bulk of treasure here.\"", "Line_18": "Over on the back the same hand had written this", "Line_19": "further information: -", "Line_20": "\"Tall tree, Spy-glass shoulder, bearing a point to the N. of", "Line_21": "N.N.E.\"", "Line_22": "Skeleton Island E.S.E. and by E.\"", "Line_23": "\"Ten feet.\"", "Line_24": "\"The bar silver is in the north cache; you can find it by the", "Line_25": "trend of the east hammock, ten fathoms south on the black crag", "Line_26": "with the face on it.\"", "Line_27": "\"the arms are easy found, in the sand hill, N. point of north", "Line_28": "inlet cape, bearing E. and a quarter N.\"", "Line_29": "That was all; but brief as it was, and, to me," }] }, "Lesson_0053": { "Name": "Lesson_0053", "Number": 53, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 6 - Page 52: The Captain's Papers", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "incomprehensible, it filled the squire and Dr. Livesey with", "Line_02": "delight.", "Line_03": "\"Livesey,\" said the squire,\"you will give up this", "Line_04": "wretched practice at once, To-morrow I start for", "Line_05": "Bristol. In three weeks\" time - three weeks! - two", "Line_06": "weeks - ten days - we'll have the best ship, sir, and the", "Line_07": "choicest crew in England. Hawkins shall come as", "Line_08": "cabin-boy. You'll make a famous cabin-boy, Hawkins.", "Line_09": "You, Livesey, are ship's doctor; I am admiral.", "Line_10": "We'll take Redruth, Joyce, and Hunter. We'll have", "Line_11": "favourable winds, a quick passage, and not the", "Line_12": "least difficulty in finding the spot, and money to eat", "Line_13": "- to roll in - to play duck and drake with ever", "Line_14": "after.\"", "Line_15": "\"Trelawney,\" said the doctor,\"I'll go with you;", "Line_16": "and, I'll go bail for it, so will Jim, and be a credit", "Line_17": "to the undertaking. There's only one man I'm afraid", "Line_18": "of.\"", "Line_19": "\"And who's that?\" cried the squire. \"Name the", "Line_20": "dog, sir!\"", "Line_21": "\"You,\" replied the doctor; \"for you cannot hold", "Line_22": "your tongue. We are not the only men who know of", "Line_23": "this paper. These fellows who attacked the inn", "Line_24": "tonight - bold, desperate blades, for sure - the rest", "Line_25": "who stayed aboard that lugger, and more, I dare say,", "Line_26": "not far off, are, one and all, through thick and thin,", "Line_27": "bound that they'll get that money. We must none of", "Line_28": "us go alone till we get to sea. Jim and I shall stick", "Line_29": "together in the meanwhile; you'll take Joyce and" }] }, "Lesson_0054": { "Name": "Lesson_0054", "Number": 54, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 1 - Chapter 6 - Page 53: The Captain's Papers", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Hunter when you ride to Bristol, and, from first to last,", "Line_02": "not one of us must breathe a word of what we've", "Line_03": "found.\"", "Line_04": "\"Livesey,\" returned the squire,\"you are always in", "Line_05": "the right of it. I'll be as silent as the grave.\"" }] }, "Lesson_0055": { "Name": "Lesson_0055", "Number": 55, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 7 - Page 54: I go to Bristol", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Part 2", "Line_02": "The Sea Cook", "Line_03": "Chapter 7", "Line_04": "I go to Bristol", "Line_05": "It was longer than the squire imagined ere we were", "Line_06": "ready for the sea, and none of our first plans-not even", "Line_07": "Dr. Livesey's, of keeping me beside him - could be", "Line_08": "carried out as we intended. The doctor had to go to", "Line_09": "London for a physician to take charge of his practice;", "Line_10": "the squire was hard at work at Bristol; and I lived on", "Line_11": "at the Hall under the charge of old Redruth, the", "Line_12": "gamekeeper, almost a prisoner, but full of sea-dreams and", "Line_13": "the most charming anticipations of strange islands and", "Line_14": "adventures. I brooded by the hour together over the", "Line_15": "map, all the details of which I well remembered.", "Line_16": "Sitting by the fire in the housekeeper's room, I", "Line_17": "approached that island in my fancy, from every possible", "Line_18": "direction; I explored every acre of its surface; I", "Line_19": "climbed a thousand times to that tall hill they call the", "Line_20": "Spy-glass, and from the top enjoyed the most wonderful", "Line_21": "and changing prospects. Sometimes the isle was thick" }] }, "Lesson_0056": { "Name": "Lesson_0056", "Number": 56, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 7 - Page 55: I go to Bristol", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "with savages, with whom we fought; sometimes full of", "Line_02": "dangerous animals that hunted us; but in all my fancies", "Line_03": "nothing occurred to me so strange and tragic as our", "Line_04": "actual adventures.", "Line_05": "So the weeks passed on, till one fine day there came", "Line_06": "a letter addressed to Dr. Livesey, with this addition,", "Line_07": "\"To be opened, in the case of his absence, by Tom", "Line_08": "Redruth, or young Hawkins.\" Obeying this order, we", "Line_09": "found, or rather, I found - for the gamekeeper was", "Line_10": "a poor hand at reading anything but print - the following", "Line_11": "important news: -", "Line_12": "\"Old Anchor Inn, Bristol, March 1, 17--.", "Line_13": "\"Dear Livesey, - As I do not know whether you are at the", "Line_14": "Hall or still in London, I send this in double to both places.", "Line_15": "\"The ship is bought and fitted. She lies at anchor, ready for", "Line_16": "sea. You never imagined a sweeter schooner - a child might", "Line_17": "sail her - two hundred tons; name, Hispaniola.", "Line_18": "\"I got her through my old friend, Blandly, who has proved", "Line_19": "himself throughout the most surprising trump. The admirable", "Line_20": "fellow literally slaved in my interest, and so, I may say, did", "Line_21": "every one in Bristol, as soon as they got wind of the port we", "Line_22": "sailed for - treasure, I mean.\"", "Line_23": "\"Redruth,\" said I, interrupting the letter,\"Doctor", "Line_24": "Livesey will not like that. The squire has been talking,", "Line_25": "after all.\"", "Line_26": "\"Well, who's a better right?\" growled the gamekeeper.", "Line_27": "\"A pretty rum go if squire aint to talk for", "Line_28": "Doctor Livesey, I should think.\"", "Line_29": "At that I gave up all attempt at commentary, and", "Line_30": "read straight on: -", "Line_31": "Blandly himself found the Hispaniola, and by the most" }] }, "Lesson_0057": { "Name": "Lesson_0057", "Number": 57, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 7 - Page 56: I go to Bristol", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "admirable management got her for the merest trifle. There is a", "Line_02": "class of men in Bristol monstrously prejudiced against Blandly.", "Line_03": "They go the length of declaring that this honest creature would", "Line_04": "do anything for money, that the Hispaniola belonged to him, and", "Line_05": "that he sold it me absurdly high - the most transparent calumnies.", "Line_06": "None of them dare, however, to deny the merits of the ship.", "Line_07": "\"So far there was not a hitch. The workpeople, to be sure-riggers", "Line_08": "and what not - were most annoyingly slow; but time", "Line_09": "cured that. It was the crew that troubled me.", "Line_10": "\"I wished a round score of men - in case of natives, buccaneers,", "Line_11": "or the odious French - and I had the worry of the deuce itself to", "Line_12": "find so much as half a dozen, till the most remarkable stroke of", "Line_13": "fortune brought me the very man that I required.", "Line_14": "\"I was standing on the dock, when, by the merest accident, I", "Line_15": "fell in talk with him. I found he was an old sailor, kept a", "Line_16": "public - house, knew all the sea-faring men in Bristol, had lost his", "Line_17": "health ashore, and wanted a good berth as cook to get to sea", "Line_18": "again. He had hobbled down there that morning, he said, to", "Line_19": "get a smell of the salt.", "Line_20": "\"I was monstrously touched - so would you have been - and,", "Line_21": "out of pure pity, I engaged him on the spot to be ship's cook.", "Line_22": "Long John Silver, he is called, and has lost a leg; but that I", "Line_23": "regarded as a recommendation, since he lost it in his country's", "Line_24": "service, under the immortal Hawke. He has no pension,", "Line_25": "Livesey. Imagine the abominable age we live in!", "Line_26": "\"Well, sir, I thought I had only found a cook, but it was a", "Line_27": "crew I had discovered. Between Silver and myself we got", "Line_28": "together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts", "Line_29": "imaginable - not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their", "Line_30": "faces, of the most indomitable spirit. I declare we could fight", "Line_31": "a frigate.", "Line_32": "\"Long John even got rid of two out of the six or seven I had", "Line_33": "already engaged. He shoed me in a moment that they were", "Line_34": "just the sort of fresh water swabs we had to fear in an adventure", "Line_35": "of importance.", "Line_36": "\"I am in the most magnificent health and spirits, eating like", "Line_37": "a bull, sleeping like a tree, yet I shall not enjoy a moment till I", "Line_38": "hear my old tarpaulius tramping round the capstan. Seaward" }] }, "Lesson_0058": { "Name": "Lesson_0058", "Number": 58, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 7 - Page 57: I go to Bristol", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has", "Line_02": "turned my head. So now, Livesey, come post; do not lose an", "Line_03": "hour, if you respect me.", "Line_04": "\"Let young Hawkins go at once to see his mother, with Redruth", "Line_05": "for a guard; and then both come full speed to Bristol.", "Line_06": "\"John Trelawney.", "Line_07": "\"Postscript. - I did not tell you that Blandly, who, by the", "Line_08": "way, is to send a consort after us if we don't turn up by the end", "Line_09": "of August, had found an admirable fellow for sailing master - a", "Line_10": "stiff man, which I regret, but, in all other respects, a treasure.", "Line_11": "Long John Silver unearthed a very competent man for a mate, a", "Line_12": "man named Arrow. I have a boatswain who pipes, Livesey; so", "Line_13": "things shall go man-o-war fashion on board the good ship", "Line_14": "Hispaniola.", "Line_15": "\"I forgot to tell you that Silver is a man of substance; I", "Line_16": "know of my own knowledge that he has a banker's account,", "Line_17": "which has never been overdrawn. He leaves his wife to manage", "Line_18": "the inn; and as she is a woman of colour, a pair of old bachelors", "Line_19": "like you and I may be excused for guessing that it is the wife,", "Line_20": "quite as much as the health, that sends him back to roving.", "Line_21": "\"J. T.", "Line_22": "\"P.P.S. - Hawkins may stay one night with his mother.", "Line_23": "\"J. T.\"", "Line_24": "You can fancy the excitement into which that letter", "Line_25": "put me. I was half beside myself with glee; and if", "Line_26": "ever I despised a man, it was old Tom Redruth, who", "Line_27": "could do nothing but grumble and lament. Any of the", "Line_28": "under-gamekeepers would gladly have changed places", "Line_29": "with him; but such was not the squire's pleasure, and", "Line_30": "the squire's pleasure was like law among them all.", "Line_31": "Nobody but old Redruth would have dared so much as", "Line_32": "even to grumble." }] }, "Lesson_0059": { "Name": "Lesson_0059", "Number": 59, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 7 - Page 58: I go to Bristol", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "The next morning he and I set out on foot for the", "Line_02": "\"Admiral Benbow,\" and there I found my mother in", "Line_03": "good health and spirits. The captain, who had so long", "Line_04": "been a cause of so much discomfort, was gone where", "Line_05": "the wicked cease from troubling. The squire had had", "Line_06": "everything repaired, and the public rooms and the sign", "Line_07": "repainted, and had added some furniture - above all a", "Line_08": "beautiful arm-chair for mother in the bar. He had", "Line_09": "found her a boy as an apprentice also, so that she should", "Line_10": "not want help while I was gone.", "Line_11": "It was on seeing that boy that I understood, for the", "Line_12": "first time, my situation. I had thought up to that", "Line_13": "moment of the adventures before me, not at all of the", "Line_14": "home that I was leaving; and now, at sight of this", "Line_15": "clumsy stranger, who was to stay here in my place", "Line_16": "beside my mother, I had my first attack of tears. I am", "Line_17": "afraid I led that boy a dog's life; for as he was new to", "Line_18": "the work, I had a hundred opportunities of setting him", "Line_19": "right and putting him down, and I was not slow to", "Line_20": "profit by them.", "Line_21": "The night passed, and the next day, after dinner,", "Line_22": "Redruth and I were afoot again, and on the road. I", "Line_23": "said good-bye to mother and the cove where I had lived", "Line_24": "since I was born, and the dear old \"Admiral Benbow\" -", "Line_25": "since he was repainted, no longer quite so dear. One of", "Line_26": "my last thoughts was of the captain, who had so often", "Line_27": "strode along the beach with his cocked hat, his sabre-cut", "Line_28": "cheek, and his old brass telescope. Next moment we", "Line_29": "had turned the corner, and my home was out of sight." }] }, "Lesson_0060": { "Name": "Lesson_0060", "Number": 60, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 7 - Page 59: I go to Bristol", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "The mail picked us up about dusk at the \"Royal", "Line_02": "George\" on the heath. It was wedged in between Redruth", "Line_03": "and the stout old gentleman, and in spite of the swift", "Line_04": "motion and the cold night air, I must have dozed a", "Line_05": "great deal fro mthe very first, and then slept like a log", "Line_06": "up hill nad down dale through stage after stage; for", "Line_07": "when I was awakened, at last, it was by a punch in the", "Line_08": "ribs, and I opened my eyes, to find that we were", "Line_09": "standing still before a large building in a city street,", "Line_10": "and that the day had already broken a long time.", "Line_11": "\"Where are we?\" I asked.", "Line_12": "\"Bristol,\" said Tom. \"Get down.\"", "Line_13": "Mr. Trelawney had taken up his residence at an", "Line_14": "inn far down the docks, to superintend the work upon", "Line_15": "the schooner. Thither we had now to walk, and our", "Line_16": "way, to my great delight, lay along the quays and", "Line_17": "beside the great multitude of ships of all sizes and", "Line_18": "rigs and nations. In one, sailors were singing at their", "Line_19": "work; in another, there were men aloft, high over my", "Line_20": "head, hanging to threads that seemed no thicker than a", "Line_21": "spider's. Though I had lived by the sore all my life,", "Line_22": "I seemed never to have been near the sea till then.", "Line_23": "The smell of tar and salt was something new. I", "Line_24": "saw the most wonderful figureheads, that had all been", "Line_25": "far over the ocean. I saw, besides, many old sailors,", "Line_26": "with rings in their ears, and whiskers curled in ringlets,", "Line_27": "and tarry pigtails, and their swaggering, clumsy seawalk;", "Line_28": "and if I had seen as many kings or archbishops I", "Line_29": "could not have been more delighted." }] }, "Lesson_0061": { "Name": "Lesson_0061", "Number": 61, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 7 - Page 60: I go to Bristol", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "and I was going to sea myself; to sea in a schooner,", "Line_02": "with a piping boatswain, and pig-tailed singing seamen;", "Line_03": "to sea, bound for an unknown island, and to seek for", "Line_04": "buried treasures!", "Line_05": "While I was still in this delighful dream, we", "Line_06": "came suddenly in front of a large inn, and met Squire", "Line_07": "Trelawney, all dressed out like a sea-officer, in stout", "Line_08": "blue cloth, coming out of the door with a smile on his", "Line_09": "face, and a capital imitation of a sailor's walk.", "Line_10": "\"Here you are,\" he cried,\" and the doctor came", "Line_11": "last night from London. Bravo! the ship's company", "Line_12": "complete!\"", "Line_13": "\"Oh, sir,\" cried I,\"when do we sail?\"", "Line_14": "\"Sail!\" says he. \"We sail to morrow!\"" }] }, "Lesson_0062": { "Name": "Lesson_0062", "Number": 62, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 8 - Page 61: At the Sign of the \"Spy-Glass\"", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Chapter 8", "Line_02": "When I had done breakfasting the squire gave me a", "Line_03": "note addressed to John Silver, at the sign of the \"Spy-glass,\"", "Line_04": "and told me I should easily find the place by", "Line_05": "following the line of the docks, and keeping a bright", "Line_06": "look-out for a little tavern with a large brass telescope", "Line_07": "for sign. I set off, overjoyed at this opportunity to", "Line_08": "see some more of the ships and seamen, and picked my", "Line_09": "way among a great crowd of people and carts and bales,", "Line_10": "for the dock was not at its busiest, until I found the", "Line_11": "tavern in question.", "Line_12": "It was a bright enough little place of entertainment.", "Line_13": "the sign was newly painted; the windows had neat red", "Line_14": "curtains; the floor was cleanly sanded. There was a", "Line_15": "street on each side, and an open door on both, which", "Line_16": "made the large, low room pretty clear to see in, in spite", "Line_17": "of clouds of tobacco smoke.", "Line_18": "The customers were mostly seafaring men; and", "Line_19": "they talked so loudly that I hung at the door, almost", "Line_20": "afraid to enter.", "Line_21": "As I was waiting, a man came out of a side room,", "Line_22": "and, at a glance, I was sure he must be Long John." }] }, "Lesson_0063": { "Name": "Lesson_0063", "Number": 63, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 8 - Page 62: At the Sign of the \"Spy-Glass\"", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "His left leg was cut off close by the hip, and under the", "Line_02": "left shoulder he carried a crutch, which he managed", "Line_03": "with wonderful dexterity, hoping about upon it like a", "Line_04": "bird. He was very tall and strong, with a face as big", "Line_05": "as a ham - plain and pale, but intelligent and smiling.", "Line_06": "indeed, he seemed in the most cheerful spirits, whistling", "Line_07": "as he moved about among the tables, with a merry word", "Line_08": "or a slap on the shoulder from the more favoured of his", "Line_09": "guests.", "Line_10": "Now, to tell you the truth, from the very first mention", "Line_11": "of Long John in Squire Trelawney's letter, I had", "Line_12": "taken a fear in my mind that he might prove to be the", "Line_13": "very one-legged sailor whom I had watched for so long", "Line_14": "at the old \"Benbow.\" But one look at the man before", "Line_15": "me was enough. I had seen the captain, and Black Dog,", "Line_16": "and the blind man Pew, and I thought I knew what a", "Line_17": "buccaneer was like - a very different creature, according", "Line_18": "to me, from this clean and pleasant-tempered landlord.", "Line_19": "I plucked up courage at once, crossed the threshold,", "Line_20": "and walked right up to the man where he stood, propped", "Line_21": "on his crutch, talking to a customer.", "Line_22": "\"Mr. Silver, sir?\" I asked, holding out the note.", "Line_23": "\"Yes, my lad,\" said he; \"such is my name, to be", "Line_24": "sure. And who may you be?\" And then as he saw", "Line_25": "the squire's letter, he seemed to me to give something", "Line_26": "almost like a start.", "Line_27": "\"Oh!\" said he, quite loud, and offering his hand,", "Line_28": "\"I see. You are our new cabin-boy; pleased I am to", "Line_29": "see you.\"" }] }, "Lesson_0064": { "Name": "Lesson_0064", "Number": 64, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 8 - Page 63: At the Sign of the \"Spy-Glass\"", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "And he took my hand in his large firm grasp.", "Line_02": "Just then one of the customers at the far side rose", "Line_03": "suddenly and made for the door. It was close by him,", "Line_04": "and he was out in the street in a moment. But his", "Line_05": "hurry had attracted my notice, and I recognised him at", "Line_06": "glance. It was the tallow-faced man, wanting two", "Line_07": "fingers, who had some first to the \"Admiral Benbow.\"", "Line_08": "\"Oh,\" I cried,\"stop him! it's Black Dog!\"", "Line_09": "\"I don't care two choppers who he is,\" cried Silver.", "Line_10": "\"But he hasn't paid his score. Harry, run and catch", "Line_11": "him.\"", "Line_12": "One of the others who was nearest the door leaped", "Line_13": "up, and started in pursuit.", "Line_14": "\"If he were Admiral Hawke he shall pay his", "Line_15": "score,\" cried Silver; and then, relinguishing my hand -", "Line_16": "\"Who did you say he was?\" he asked. \"Black", "Line_17": "what?\"", "Line_18": "\"Dog, sir,\" said I. \"Has Mr. Trelawney not told", "Line_19": "you of the buccaneers? He was one of them.\"", "Line_20": "\"So?\" cried Silver. \"In my house! Ben, run", "Line_21": "and help Harry. One of those swabs, was he? Was", "Line_22": "that you drinking with him, Morgan? Step up here.\"", "Line_23": "The man whom he called Morgan - an old, grey-haired,", "Line_24": "mahogany-faced sailore - came forward pretty", "Line_25": "sheepishly, rolling his quid.", "Line_26": "\"Now, Morgan,\" said Long John, very sternly;", "Line_27": "\"you never clapped your eyes on that Black - Black", "Line_28": "Dog before, did you, now?\"", "Line_29": "\"Not I, sir,\" said Morgan, with a salute." }] }, "Lesson_0065": { "Name": "Lesson_0065", "Number": 65, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 8 - Page 64: At the Sign of the \"Spy-Glass\"", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "\"You didn't know his name, did you?\"", "Line_02": "\"No, sir.\"", "Line_03": "\"By the powers, Tom Morgan, it's as good for", "Line_04": "you!\" exlaimed the landlord. \"If you had been", "Line_05": "mixed up with the like of that, you would never have", "Line_06": "put another foot in my house, you may lay to that.", "Line_07": "And what was he saying to you?\"", "Line_08": "\"I don't rightly know, sir,\" answered Morgan.", "Line_09": "\"Do you call that a head on your shoulders, or", "Line_10": "a blessed dead-eye?\" cried Long John. \"Don't", "Line_11": "rightly know, don't you! Perhpas you don't happen", "Line_12": "to rightly know who you was speaking to, perhaps?", "Line_13": "Come, now, what was he jawing - v'yages, cap'ns,", "Line_14": "ships? Pipe up! What was it?\"", "Line_15": "\"We was a-talkin\" of keel-hauling,\" answered", "Line_16": "Morgan.", "Line_17": "\"Keel-hauling, was you? and a mighty suitable", "Line_18": "thing, too, and you may lay to that. Get back to your", "Line_19": "place for a lubber, Tom.\"", "Line_20": "And then, as Morgan rolled back to his seat, Silver", "Line_21": "added to me in a confidential whisper, that was very", "Line_22": "flattering, as I thought: -", "Line_23": "\"He's quite an honest man, Tom Morgan, on'y", "Line_24": "stupid. And now,\" he ran on again, aloud,\"let's see", "Line_25": "-Black Dog? No, I don't know the name, not I.", "Line_26": "Yet I kind of think I've - yes, I've seen the swab. He", "Line_27": "used to come here with a blind beggar, he used.\"", "Line_28": "\"That he did, you may be sure,\" said I. \"I knew", "Line_29": "that blind man, too. His name was Pew.\"" }] }, "Lesson_0066": { "Name": "Lesson_0066", "Number": 66, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 8 - Page 65: At the Sign of the \"Spy-Glass\"", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "\"It was!\" cried Silver, now quite excited. \"Pew!", "Line_02": "That were his name for certain. Ah, he looked a", "Line_03": "shark, he did! If we run down this Black Dog, now,", "Line_04": "there'll be news for Cap'n Trelawney! Ben's a good", "Line_05": "runner; few seamen run better than Ben. He should", "Line_06": "run him down, hand over hand, by the powers!", "Line_07": "He talked o' heel-hauling, did he? I'll keel-haul", "Line_08": "him!\"", "Line_09": "All the time he was jerking out these phrases he", "Line_10": "was stumping up and down the tavern ou his crutch,", "Line_11": "slapping tables with his hand, and giving such a show", "Line_12": "of excitement as would have convinced an Old Bailey", "Line_13": "judge or a Bow Street runner. My suspicions had", "Line_14": "been thoroughly re-awakened on finding Black Dog at", "Line_15": "the \"Spy-glass,\" and I watched the cook narrowly. But", "Line_16": "he was too deep, and too ready, and too clever for me,", "Line_17": "and by the time the two men had come back out of", "Line_18": "breath, and confessed that they had lost the track in a", "Line_19": "crowd, and been scolded like thieves, I would have gone", "Line_20": "bail for the innocence of Long John Silver.", "Line_21": "\"See here, now, Hawkins,\" said he,\" here\"s a", "Line_22": "blessed hard thing on a man like me, now, aint it?", "Line_23": "There's Cap'n Trelawney - what's he to think? Here", "Line_24": "I have this confounded son of a Dutchman sitting in my", "Line_25": "own house, drinking of my own rum! Here you comes", "Line_26": "and tells me of it plain; and here I let him give us all", "Line_27": "the slip before my blessed dead-lights! Now, Hawkins", "Line_28": "you do me justice with the cap'n. You're a lad, you", "Line_29": "are, but you're as smart as paint. I see that when you" }] }, "Lesson_0067": { "Name": "Lesson_0067", "Number": 67, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 8 - Page 66: At the Sign of the \"Spy-Glass\"", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "first came in. Now, here it is: What could I do, with", "Line_02": "this old timber I hobble on? When I was an A B", "Line_03": "master mariner I'd have come up alongside of him, hand", "Line_04": "over hand, and broached him to in a brace of old shakes,", "Line_05": "I would; but now-\"", "Line_06": "And then, all of a sudden, he stopped, and his jaw", "Line_07": "dropped as though he had remembered something.", "Line_08": "\"The score!\" he burst out. \"Three goes o' rum!", "Line_09": "Why, shiver my timbers, if I hadn't forgotten my", "Line_10": "score!\"", "Line_11": "And, falling on a bench, he laughed until the tears", "Line_12": "ran down his cheeks. I could not help joining; and we", "Line_13": "laughed together, peal after peal, until the tavern rang", "Line_14": "again.", "Line_15": "\"Why, what a precious old sea-calf I am!\" he", "Line_16": "said, at last, wiping his cheeks. \"You and me should", "Line_17": "get on well, Hawkins, for I'll take my davy I should be", "Line_18": "rated ship's boy. But, come, now, stand by to go about.", "Line_19": "This won't do. Dooty is dooty, messmates. I'll put on", "Line_20": "my old cocked hat, and step along of you to Cap'n Trelawney,", "Line_21": "and report this here affair. For, mind you, it's", "Line_22": "serious, young Hawkins; and neither you nor me's", "Line_23": "count out of it with what I should make so bold as to", "Line_24": "call credit. Nor you neither, says you; not smart-", "Line_25": "none of the pair of us smart. But dash my buttons!", "Line_26": "that was a good 'un about my score.\"", "Line_27": "And he began to laugh again, and that so heartily,", "Line_28": "that though I did not see the joke as he did, I was again", "Line_29": "obliged to join him in his mirth." }] }, "Lesson_0068": { "Name": "Lesson_0068", "Number": 68, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 8 - Page 67: At the Sign of the \"Spy-Glass\"", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "On our little walk along the quays, he made himself", "Line_02": "the most interesting companion, telling me about the", "Line_03": "different ships that we passed by, their rig, tonnage,", "Line_04": "and nationality, explaining the work that was going", "Line_05": "forward - how one was discharging, another taking in", "Line_06": "cargo, and a third making ready for sea; and every now", "Line_07": "and then telling me some little anecdote of ships or", "Line_08": "seamen, or repeating a nautical phrase till I had learned", "Line_09": "it perfectly. I began to see that here was one of the", "Line_10": "best of possible shipmates.", "Line_11": "When we got to the inn, the squire and Dr. Livesey", "Line_12": "were seated together, finishing a quart of ale with a", "Line_13": "toast in it, before they should go aboard the schooner on", "Line_14": "a visit of insepection.", "Line_15": "Long John told the story from first to last, with a", "Line_16": "great deal of spirit and the most perfect truth.", "Line_17": "\"That was how it were, now, weren't it, Hawkins?\"", "Line_18": "he would say, now and again, and I could always hear", "Line_19": "him entirely out.", "Line_20": "The two gentlemen regretted that Black Dog had", "Line_21": "got away; but we all agreed there was nothing to be", "Line_22": "done, and after he had been complemented, Long John", "Line_23": "took up his crutch and departed.", "Line_24": "\"All hands aboard by four this afternoon,\" shouted", "Line_25": "the squire, after him.", "Line_26": "\"Ay, ay, sir,\" cried the cook, in the passage.", "Line_27": "\"Well, squire,\" said Dr. Livesey,\"I don't put much", "Line_28": "faith in your discoveries, as a general thing; but I will", "Line_29": "say this, John Silver suites me.\"" }] }, "Lesson_0069": { "Name": "Lesson_0069", "Number": 69, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 8 - Page 68: At the Sign of the \"Spy-Glass\"", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "\"The man's a perfect trump,\" declared the squire.", "Line_02": "\"And now,\" added the doctor,\"Jim may come on", "Line_03": "board with us, may he not?\"", "Line_04": "\"To be sure he may,\" says squire. \"Take your hat,", "Line_05": "Hawkins, and we'll see the ship.\"" }] }, "Lesson_0070": { "Name": "Lesson_0070", "Number": 70, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 9 - Page 69: Powder and Arms", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Chapter 9", "Line_02": "Powder and Arms", "Line_03": "The Hispaniola lay some way out, and we went under", "Line_04": "the figureheads and round the sterns of many other", "Line_05": "ships, and their cables sometimes grated underneath our", "Line_06": "keel, and sometimes swung above us. At last, however,", "Line_07": "we got alongside, and were met and saluted as we", "Line_08": "stepped aboard by the mate, Mr. Arrow, a brown old", "Line_09": "sailor, with earrings in his ears and a squint. He and", "Line_10": "the squire were very thick and friendly, but I soon", "Line_11": "observed that things were not the same between Mr.", "Line_12": "Trelawney and the captain.", "Line_13": "This last was a sharp-looking man, who seemed", "Line_14": "angry with everything on board, and was soon to tell", "Line_15": "us why, for we had hardly got down into the cabin", "Line_16": "when a sailor followed us.", "Line_17": "\"Captian Smollett, sir, axing to speak with you,\"", "Line_18": "said he.", "Line_19": "\"I am always at the captain's orders. Show him", "Line_20": "in,\" said the squire.", "Line_21": "The captain, who was close behind his messenger,", "Line_22": "entered at once, and shut the door behind him." }] }, "Lesson_0071": { "Name": "Lesson_0071", "Number": 71, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 9 - Page 70: Powder and Arms", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "\"Well, Captain Smollett, what have you to say?", "Line_02": "All well, I hope; all shipshape and seaworthy?\"", "Line_03": "\"Well, sir,\" said the captain,\"better speak plain,", "Line_04": "I believe, even at the risk of offence. I don't like this", "Line_05": "cruise; I don't like the men; and I don't like my", "Line_06": "officer. That's short and sweet.\"", "Line_07": "\"Perhaps, sir, you don't like the ship?\" inquired", "Line_08": "the squire, very angry, as I could see.", "Line_09": "\"I can't speak as to that, sir, not having seen her", "Line_10": "tried,\" said the captain. \"She seems a clever craft;", "Line_11": "more I can't say.\"", "Line_12": "\"Possibly, sir, you may not like your employer,", "Line_13": "either?\" says the squire.", "Line_14": "But here Dr. Livesey cut in.", "Line_15": "\"Stay a bit,\" said he,\"stay a bit. No use of such", "Line_16": "questions as that but to produce ill-feeling. The captain", "Line_17": "has said too much or he has said too little, and I'm", "Line_18": "bound to say that I require an explanation of his words.", "Line_19": "You don't, you say, like this cruise. Now, why?\"", "Line_20": "\"I was engaged, sir, on what we call sealed orders,", "Line_21": "to sail this ship for that gentleman where he should", "Line_22": "bid me,\" said the captain. \"So far so good. But now", "Line_23": "I find that every man before the mast knows more than", "Line_24": "I do. I don't call that fair, now, do you?\"", "Line_25": "\"No,\" said Dr. Livesey,\"I don't.\"", "Line_26": "\"Next,\" said the captain,\"I learn we are going", "Line_27": "after treasure - hear it from my own hands, mind you.", "Line_28": "Now, treasure is ticklish word; I don't like treasure", "Line_29": "voyages on any account; and I don't like them, above" }] }, "Lesson_0072": { "Name": "Lesson_0072", "Number": 72, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 9 - Page 71: Powder and Arms", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "all, when they are secret, and when (begging your", "Line_02": "pardon, Mr. Trelawney) the secret has been told to the", "Line_03": "parrot.\"", "Line_04": "\"Liver's parrot?\" asked the squire.", "Line_05": "\"It's a way of speaking,\" said the captain.", "Line_06": "\"Blabbed, I mean. It's my belief neither of you", "Line_07": "gentlemen know what you are about; but I'll tell", "Line_08": "you my way of it - life or death, and a close run.\"", "Line_09": "\"That is all clear, and, I daresay, true enough,\"", "Line_10": "replied Dr. Livesey. \"We take the risk; but we", "Line_11": "are not so ignorant as you believe us. Next, you", "Line_12": "say you don't like the crew. Are they not good seamen?\"", "Line_13": "\"I don't like them, sir,\" returned Captain Smollett.", "Line_14": "\"And I think I should have had the choosing of my", "Line_15": "own hands, if you got to that.\"", "Line_16": "\"Perhaps you should,\" replied the doctor. \"My", "Line_17": "friend should, perhaps, have taken you along with him;", "Line_18": "but the slight, if there be one, was unintentional. And", "Line_19": "you don't like Mr. Arrow?\"", "Line_20": "\"I don't, sir. I believe he's a good seaman; but", "Line_21": "he's too free with the crew to be a good officer. A", "Line_22": "mate should keep himself to himself - shouldn't drink", "Line_23": "with the men before the mast!\"", "Line_24": "\"Do you mean he drinks?\" cried the squire.", "Line_25": "\"No, sir,\" replied the cpatian; \"only that he's too", "Line_26": "familiar.\"", "Line_27": "\"Well, now, and the short and long of it, captain?\"", "Line_28": "asked the doctor. \"Tell us what you want.\"" }] }, "Lesson_0073": { "Name": "Lesson_0073", "Number": 73, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 9 - Page 72: Powder and Arms", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "\"Well, gentlemen, are you determined to go on this", "Line_02": "cruise?\"", "Line_03": "\"Like iron,\" answered the squire.", "Line_04": "\"Very good,\" said the captain. \"Then, as you've", "Line_05": "heard me very patiently, saying things that I could not", "Line_06": "prove, hear me a few words more. They are putting", "Line_07": "the powder and the arms in the fore hold. Now, you", "Line_08": "have a good place under the cabin; why not put them", "Line_09": "there? - first point. Then you are bringing four of", "Line_10": "your own people with you, and they tell me some of", "Line_11": "them are to be berthed forward. Why not give them", "Line_12": "the berths here beside the cabin? - second point.\"", "Line_13": "\"Any more?\" asked Mr. Trelawney.", "Line_14": "\"One more,\" said the captain. \"There's been too", "Line_15": "much blabbing already.\"", "Line_16": "\"Far too much,\" agreed the doctor.", "Line_17": "\"I'll tell you what I've heard myself,\" continued", "Line_18": "Captain Smollett: \"that you have a map of an island;", "Line_19": "that there's crosses on the map to show where treasure", "Line_20": "is; and that the island lies -\" And then he named", "Line_21": "the latitude and longitude exactly.", "Line_22": "\"I never told that,\" cried the squire,\"to a soul!\"", "Line_23": "\"The hands know it, sir,\" returned the captain.", "Line_24": "\"Livesey, that must have been you or Hawkins,\"", "Line_25": "cried the squire.", "Line_26": "\"It doesn't much matter who it was,\" replied the", "Line_27": "doctor. And I could see that neither he nor the captain", "Line_28": "paid much regard to Mr. Trelawney's protestations.", "Line_29": "Neither did I, to be sure, he was so loose a talker; yet" }] }, "Lesson_0074": { "Name": "Lesson_0074", "Number": 74, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 9 - Page 73: Powder and Arms", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "in this case I believe he was really right, and that", "Line_02": "nobody had told the situation of the island.", "Line_03": "\"Well, gentlemen,\" continued the captain,\"I don't", "Line_04": "know who has this map; but I make it a point, it", "Line_05": "shall be kept secret even from me and Mr. Arrow.", "Line_06": "Otherwise I would ask you to let me resign.\"", "Line_07": "\"I see,\" said the doctor. \"You wish us to keep", "Line_08": "this matter dark, and to make a garrison of the stern", "Line_09": "part of the ship, manned with my friend's own people,", "Line_10": "and provided with all the arms and powder on board.", "Line_11": "In other words, you fear a mutiny.\"", "Line_12": "\"Sir,\" said Captain Smollett,\"with no intention", "Line_13": "to take offence, I deny your right to put words into", "Line_14": "my mouth. No captain, sir, would be justified in", "Line_15": "going to sea at all if he had ground enough to say", "Line_16": "that. As for Mr. Arrow, I believe him thoroughly", "Line_17": "honest; some of the men are the same; all may be", "Line_18": "for what I know. But I am responsible for the", "Line_19": "ship's safety and the life of every man Jack aboard", "Line_20": "of her. I see things going, as I think, not quite right.", "Line_21": "And I ask you to take certain precautions, or let me", "Line_22": "resign my bert. And that's all.\"", "Line_23": "\"Captain Smollett,\" began the doctor, with a smile,", "Line_24": "\"did ever you hear the fable of the mountain and the", "Line_25": "mouse? You'll excuse me, I daresay, but you remind", "Line_26": "me of that fable. When you came in here I'll stake", "Line_27": "my wig you meant more than this.\"", "Line_28": "\"Doctor,\" said the captain,\"you are smart.", "Line_29": "When I came in here I meant to get discharged." }] }, "Lesson_0075": { "Name": "Lesson_0075", "Number": 75, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 9 - Page 74: Powder and Arms", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "I had no thought that Mr. Trelawney would hear a", "Line_02": "word.\"", "Line_03": "\"No more I would,\" cried the squire. \"Had", "Line_04": "Livesey not been here I should have seen you to", "Line_05": "the deuce. As it is, I have heard you. I will do", "Line_06": "as you desire; but I think the worse of you.\"", "Line_07": "\"That's as you please, sir,\" said the captain.", "Line_08": "\"You'll find I do my duty.\"", "Line_09": "And with that he took his leave.", "Line_10": "\"Trelawney,\" said the doctor,\"contrary to all", "Line_11": "my notions, I believe you have managed to get two", "Line_12": "honest men on board with you - that man and John", "Line_13": "Silver.\"", "Line_14": "\"Silver, if you like,\" cried the squire; \"but as for", "Line_15": "that intolerable humbug, I declare I think his conduct", "Line_16": "unmanly, unsailorly, and downright un-English.\"", "Line_17": "\"Well,\" sayd the doctor,\"we shall see.\"", "Line_18": "When we came on deck, the men had begun already", "Line_19": "to take out the arms and powder, yo-ho-ing at their", "Line_20": "work, while the captain and Mr. Arrow stood by", "Line_21": "superintending.", "Line_22": "The new arrangement was quite to my liking. The", "Line_23": "whole schooner had been overhauled; six berths had", "Line_24": "been made astern, out of what had been the after-part", "Line_25": "of the main hold; and this set of cabins was only joined", "Line_26": "to the galley and forecastle by a spared passage on", "Line_27": "the port side. It had been originally meant that the", "Line_28": "captain, Mr. Arrow, Hunter, Joyce, the doctor, and", "Line_29": "the squire, were to occupy these six berths. Now," }] }, "Lesson_0076": { "Name": "Lesson_0076", "Number": 76, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 9 - Page 75: Powder and Arms", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Redruth and I were to get two of them, and Mr. Arrow", "Line_02": "and the captain were to sleep on deck in the companion,", "Line_03": "which had been enlarged on each side till you might", "Line_04": "almost have called it a round-house. Very low it was", "Line_05": "still, of course; but there was room to swing two", "Line_06": "hammocks, and even the mate seemed pleased with the", "Line_07": "arrangement. Even he, perhaps, had been doubtful as", "Line_08": "to the crew, but that is only guess; for, as you shall", "Line_09": "hear, we had not long the benefit of his opinion.", "Line_10": "We were all hard at work, changing the powder and", "Line_11": "the berths, when the last man or two, and Long John", "Line_12": "along with them, came off in a shore-boat.", "Line_13": "The ocok came up the side like a monkey for cleverness,", "Line_14": "and, as soon as he saw what was doing,\"So ho,", "Line_15": "mates!\" says he,\"what's this?\"", "Line_16": "\"We're a-changing of the powder, Jack,\" answers one.", "Line_17": "\"Why, by the powers,\" cried Long John,\"if we", "Line_18": "do, we'll miss the morning tide!\"", "Line_19": "\"My orders!\" said the captain shortly. \"You", "Line_20": "may go below, my man. Hands will want supper.\"", "Line_21": "\"Ay, ay, sir,\" answered the cook; and, touching", "Line_22": "his forelock, he disappeared at once in the direction of", "Line_23": "his galley.", "Line_24": "\"That's a good man, captain,\" said the doctor.", "Line_25": "\"Very likely sir,\" replied Captain Smollett. \"Easy", "Line_26": "with that, men - easy,\" he ran on, to the fellows who", "Line_27": "were shifting the powder; and then suddenly observing", "Line_28": "me examining the swivel we carried amidships, a long" }] }, "Lesson_0077": { "Name": "Lesson_0077", "Number": 77, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 9 - Page 76: Powder and Arms", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "brass nine-\"Here, you ship's boy,\" he cried,\"out o'", "Line_02": "that! Off with you to the cook and get some work.\"", "Line_03": "And then as I was hurrying off I heard him say,", "Line_04": "quite loudly, to the doctor: -", "Line_05": "\"I'll have no favourites on my ship.\"", "Line_06": "I assure you I was quite of the squire's way of", "Line_07": "thinking, and hated the captain deeply." }] }, "Lesson_0078": { "Name": "Lesson_0078", "Number": 78, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 10 - Page 77: The Voyage", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Chapter 10", "Line_02": "The Voyage", "Line_03": "All that night we were in a great bustle getting things", "Line_04": "stowed in their place, and boatfuls of the squire's", "Line_05": "friends, Mr. Blandly and the like, coming off to wish", "Line_06": "him a good voyage and a safe return. We never had a", "Line_07": "night at the \"Admiral Benbow\" when I had half the", "Line_08": "work; and I was dog-tired when, a little before dawn,", "Line_09": "the boatswain sounded his pipe, and the crew began to", "Line_10": "man the capstan-bars. I might have been twice as", "Line_11": "weary, yet I would not have left the deck; all was so", "Line_12": "new and interesting to me - the brief commands, the", "Line_13": "shrill note of the whistle, the men bustling to their", "Line_14": "places in the glimmer of the ship's lanterns.", "Line_15": "\"Now, Barbecue, tip us a stave,\" cried one voice.", "Line_16": "\"The old one,\" cried another.", "Line_17": "\"Ay, ay, mates,\" said Long John, who was standing", "Line_18": "by, with his crutch under his arm, and at once", "Line_19": "broke out in the air and words I knew so well-", "Line_20": "\"Fifteen men on the dead man's chest\"-", "Line_21": "And then the whole crew bore chorus: -", "Line_22": "\"Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!\"" }] }, "Lesson_0079": { "Name": "Lesson_0079", "Number": 79, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 10 - Page 78: The Voyage", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "And at the third \"ho!\" drove the bars before them with", "Line_02": "a will.", "Line_03": "Even at that exciting moment it carried me back to", "Line_04": "the old \"Admiral Benbow\" in a second; and I seemed", "Line_05": "to hear the voice of the captain piping in the chorus.", "Line_06": "But soon the anchor was short up; soon it was hanging", "Line_07": "dripping at the bows; soon the sails began to draw; and", "Line_08": "the land and shipping to flit by on either side; and", "Line_09": "before I could lie down to snatch an hour of slumber", "Line_10": "the Hispaniola had begun her voyage to the Isle of", "Line_11": "Treausre.", "Line_12": "I am not going to relate that voyage in detail. It", "Line_13": "was fairly prosperous. The ship proved to be a good", "Line_14": "ship, the crew were capable seamen, and the captain", "Line_15": "thoroughly understood his business. But before we", "Line_16": "came the length of Treasure Island, two or three things", "Line_17": "had happened which require to be known.", "Line_18": "Mr. Arrow, first of all, turned out even worse than", "Line_19": "the captain had feared. He had no command among", "Line_20": "the men, and people did what they pleased with him.", "Line_21": "But that was by no means the worst of it; for after a", "Line_22": "day or two at sea he began to appear on deck with hazy", "Line_23": "red cheeks, stuttering tongue, and other marks of", "Line_24": "drunkenness. Time after time he was ordered below in", "Line_25": "disgrace. Sometimes he fell and cut himself; sometimes", "Line_26": "he lay all day long in his little bunk at one", "Line_27": "side of the companion; sometimes for a day or two he", "Line_28": "would be almost sober and attend to his work at least", "Line_29": "passably." }] }, "Lesson_0080": { "Name": "Lesson_0080", "Number": 80, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 10 - Page 79: The Voyage", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "In the meantime, we could never make out where he", "Line_02": "got the drink. That was the ship's mystery. Watch", "Line_03": "him as we pleased, we could do nothing to solve it; and", "Line_04": "when we asked him to his face, he would only laugh, if", "Line_05": "he were drunk, and if he were sober, deny solemnly that", "Line_06": "he ever tasted anything but water.", "Line_07": "He was not only useless as an officer, and a bad", "Line_08": "influence amongst the men, but it was plain that at this", "Line_09": "rate he must soon hill himself outright; so nobody was", "Line_10": "much surprised, nor very sorry, when one dark night,", "Line_11": "with a head sea, he disappeared entirely and was seen no", "Line_12": "more.", "Line_13": "\"Overboard!\" said the captain. \"Well, gentelmen,", "Line_14": "that saves the trouble of putting him in irons.\"", "Line_15": "But there we were, without a mate; and it was", "Line_16": "necessary, of course, to advance one of the men. The", "Line_17": "boatswain, Job Anderson, was the likeliest man aboard,", "Line_18": "and, though he kept his old title, he served in a way as", "Line_19": "mate. Mr. Trelawney had followed the sea, and his", "Line_20": "knowledge made him very useful, for he often took a", "Line_21": "watch himself in easy weather. And the coxswain,", "Line_22": "Israel Hands, was a careful, wily, old, experienced seaman,", "Line_23": "who could be trusted at a pinch with almost anything.", "Line_24": "He was a great confidant of Long John Silver, and", "Line_25": "so the mention of his name leads me on to speak of our", "Line_26": "ship's cook, Barbecue, as the men called him.", "Line_27": "Aboard ship he carried his crutch by a lanyard", "Line_28": "round his neck, to have both hands as free as possible." }] }, "Lesson_0081": { "Name": "Lesson_0081", "Number": 81, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 10 - Page 80: The Voyage", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "It was something to see him wedge the foot of the", "Line_02": "crutch against a bulkhead, and, propped against it,", "Line_03": "yielding to every movement of the ship, get on with", "Line_04": "his cooking like some one safe ashore. Still more", "Line_05": "strange was it to see him in the heaviest of weather", "Line_06": "cross the deck. he had a line or two rigged up to", "Line_07": "help him across the widest spaces - Long Johns earrings,", "Line_08": "they were called; and he would hand himself", "Line_09": "from one place to another, now using the crutch, now", "Line_10": "trailing it alongside by the lanyard, as quickly as", "Line_11": "another man could walk. yet some of the men who", "Line_12": "had sailed with him before expressed their pity to see", "Line_13": "him so reduced.", "Line_14": "\"he's no common man, Barbecue,\" said the coxswain", "Line_15": "to me. \"he had good schooling in his young", "Line_16": "days, and can speak like a book when so minded; and", "Line_17": "brave - a lion's nothing alongside of Long John! I seen", "Line_18": "him grapple four, and knock their heads together - him", "Line_19": "unarmed.\"", "Line_20": "All the crew respected and even obeyed him. He had", "Line_21": "a way of talking to each, and doing everybody some", "Line_22": "particular service. To me he was unweariedly kind; and", "Line_23": "always glad to see me in the galley, which he kept", "Line_24": "as clean as a new pin; the dishes hanging up burnished,", "Line_25": "and his parrot in a cage in one corner.", "Line_26": "\"come away, Hawkins,\" he would say; \"come", "Line_27": "and have a yarn with John. Nobody more welcome", "Line_28": "than yourself, my son. Sit you down and hear the", "Line_29": "news. Here's Cap'n Flint - I calls my parrot Cap'n" }] }, "Lesson_0082": { "Name": "Lesson_0082", "Number": 82, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 10 - Page 81: The Voyage", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Flint, after the famous buccaneer - here's Cap'n", "Line_02": "Flint predicting success to our v'yage. Wasn't you,", "Line_03": "cap'n?\"", "Line_04": "And the parrot would say, with great rapidity,", "Line_05": "\"Pieces of eight! pieces of eight! pieces of eight!\"", "Line_06": "till you wondered that it was not out of breath, or till", "Line_07": "John threw his handkerchief over the cage.", "Line_08": "\"Now, that bird,\" he would say,\"is, may be, two", "Line_09": "hundred years old, Hawkins - they lives for ever mostly;", "Line_10": "and if anybody's seen more wickedness, it must be the", "Line_11": "devil himself. She's sailed with England, the great", "Line_12": "Cap'n England, the pirate. She's been at Madagascar,", "Line_13": "And at Malabar, and Surinam, and Providence, and", "Line_14": "Portobello. She was at the fishing up of the wrecked", "Line_15": "plate ships. It's there she learned \"Pieces of eight,\"", "Line_16": "and little wonder; three hundred and fifty thousand of", "Line_17": "\"em, Hawkins! She was at the boarding of the Viceroy", "Line_18": "of the Indies out of Goa, she was; and to look at her", "Line_19": "you would think she was a babby. But you smelt", "Line_20": "powder - didn't you, cap'n?\"", "Line_21": "\"Stand by to go about,\" the parrot would scream.", "Line_22": "\"Ah, she's a handsome craft, she is,\" the cook", "Line_23": "would say, and give her sugar from his pocket, and then", "Line_24": "the bird would peck at the bars and swear straight", "Line_25": "on, passing belief for wickedness. \"There,\" John", "Line_26": "would add,\"you can't touch pitch and not be mucked,", "Line_27": "lad. Here's this poor old innocent bird o' mine swearing", "Line_28": "blue fire, and none the wiser, you may lay to that. She", "Line_29": "sould swear the same, in a manner of speaking, before" }] }, "Lesson_0083": { "Name": "Lesson_0083", "Number": 83, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 10 - Page 82: The Voyage", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "chaplain.\" And John would touch his forelock with a", "Line_02": "solemn way he had, that made me think he was the best", "Line_03": "of men.", "Line_04": "In the meantime, the squire and Captain Smollett", "Line_05": "were still on pretty distant terms with one another. The", "Line_06": "squire made no bones about the matter; he despised the", "Line_07": "captain. The captain, on his part, never spoke but when", "Line_08": "he was spoken to, and then sharp and short and dry, and", "Line_09": "not a word wasted. He owned, when driven into a", "Line_10": "corner, that he seemed to have been wrong about the", "Line_11": "crew, that some of them were as brisk as he wanted", "Line_12": "to see, and all had behaved fairly well. As for the", "Line_13": "ship, he had taken a downright fancy to her. \"She'll", "Line_14": "lie a point nearer the wind than a man has a right", "Line_15": "to expect of his own married wife, sir. But,\" he", "Line_16": "would add,\" all I say is we're not home again, and", "Line_17": "I don't like the cruise.\"", "Line_18": "The squire, at this, would turn away and march", "Line_19": "up and down the deck, chin in air.", "Line_20": "\"A trifle more of that man,\" he would say,\"and", "Line_21": "I shall explode.\"", "Line_22": "We had some heavy weather, which only proved", "Line_23": "the qualities of the Hispaniola. Every man on board", "Line_24": "seemed well content, and they must have been hard", "Line_25": "to please if they had been otherwise; for it is my belief", "Line_26": "there was never a ship's company so spoiled since Noah", "Line_27": "put to sea. Double grog was going on the least excuse;", "Line_28": "there was duff on odd days, as, for instance, if the squire", "Line_29": "heard it was any man's birthday; and always a barrel of" }] }, "Lesson_0084": { "Name": "Lesson_0084", "Number": 84, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 10 - Page 83: The Voyage", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "apples standing broached in the waist, for any one to", "Line_02": "help himself that had a fancy.", "Line_03": "\"Never knew good come of it yet,\" the captain said", "Line_04": "to Dr. Livesey. \"Spoil foc's'le hands, make devils.", "Line_05": "That's my belief.\"", "Line_06": "But good did come of the apple barrel, as you shall", "Line_07": "hear; for if it had not been for that, we should have had", "Line_08": "no note of warning, and might all have perished by the", "Line_09": "hand of treachery.", "Line_10": "This was how it came about.", "Line_11": "We had run up the trades to get the wind of", "Line_12": "the island we were after - I am not allowed to be", "Line_13": "more plain - and now we were running down for it", "Line_14": "with a bright look-out day and night. It was about", "Line_15": "the last day of our outward voyage, by the largest", "Line_16": "computation; some time that night, or, at latest, before", "Line_17": "noon of the morrow, we should sight the Treasure Island.", "Line_18": "We were heading S.S.W., and had a steady breeze abeam", "Line_19": "and a quiet sea. The Hispaniola rolled steadily, dipping", "Line_20": "her bowsprit now and then with a wiff of spray. All", "Line_21": "was drawing alow and aloft; every one was in the", "Line_22": "bravest spirits, because we were now so near an end of", "Line_23": "the first part of our adventure.", "Line_24": "Now, just after sundown, when all my work was", "Line_25": "over, and I was on my way to my berth, it occurred", "Line_26": "to me that I should like an apple. I ran on deck. The", "Line_27": "watch was all forward looking out for the island.", "Line_28": "The man at the helm was watching the luff of the sail,", "Line_29": "and whistling away gently to himself; and that was" }] }, "Lesson_0085": { "Name": "Lesson_0085", "Number": 85, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 10 - Page 84: The Voyage", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "the only sound excepting the switch of the sea against", "Line_02": "the bows and around the sides of the ship.", "Line_03": "In I got bodily into the apple barrel, and found", "Line_04": "there was scarce an apple left; but, sitting down there", "Line_05": "in the dark, what with the sound of the waters and the", "Line_06": "rocking movement of the ship, I had either fallen asleep,", "Line_07": "or was in the point of doing so, when a heavy man sat", "Line_08": "down with a rather a slash close by. The barrel shook", "Line_09": "as he leaned his shoulders against it, and I was just", "Line_10": "about to jump up when the man began to speak. It", "Line_11": "was Silver's voice, and, before I had heard a dozen", "Line_12": "words, I would not have shown myself for all the", "Line_13": "world, but lay there, trembling and listening, in the", "Line_14": "extreme of fear and curiosity; for from these dozen words", "Line_15": "I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard", "Line_16": "depended upon me alone." }] }, "Lesson_0086": { "Name": "Lesson_0086", "Number": 86, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 11 - Page 85: What I Heard in the Apple Barrel", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Chapter 11", "Line_02": "What I Heard in the Apple Barrel", "Line_03": "\"No, not I,\" said Silver. \"Flint was cap'n; I was", "Line_04": "quartermaster, along with my timber leg. The same", "Line_05": "broadside I lost my leg, old Pew lost his deadlights. It", "Line_06": "as a master surgeon, him that ampytated me-out of", "Line_07": "college and all - Latin by the bucket, and what not;", "Line_08": "but he was hanged like a dog, and sun-dried like the", "Line_09": "rest, at Corso Castle. That was Roberts\" men, that was,", "Line_10": "and comed of changing names to their ships - Royal", "Line_11": "Fortune and so on. Now, what a ship was christened,", "Line_12": "so let her stay, I says. So it was that the Cassandra,", "Line_13": "as brought us all safe home from Malabar, after England", "Line_14": "took the Viceroy of the Indies; so it was with the old", "Line_15": "Walrus, Flint's old ship, as I've seen a-muck with the", "Line_16": "red blook and fit to sink with gold.\"", "Line_17": "\"Ah!\" cried another voice, that of the youngest", "Line_18": "hand on board, and evidently full of admiration,\"he", "Line_19": "was the flower of the flock, was Flint!\"", "Line_20": "\"Davis was a man, too, by all accounts,\" said", "Line_21": "Silver. \"I never sailed along of him; first with", "Line_22": "England, then with Flint, that's my story; and now", "Line_23": "here on my own account, in a manner of speaking. I laid" }] }, "Lesson_0087": { "Name": "Lesson_0087", "Number": 87, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 11 - Page 86: What I Heard in the Apple Barrel", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "by nine hundred safe, from England, and two thousand", "Line_02": "after Flint. That aint bad for a man before the mast -", "Line_03": "all safe in bank. \"Tain't earning now, it's saving does", "Line_04": "it, you may lay to that. Where's all England's men", "Line_05": "now? I dunno. Where's Flint's? Why, most of", "Line_06": "'em aboard here, and glad to get the duff - been begging", "Line_07": "before that, some on 'em. Old Pew, as had lost his", "Line_08": "sightn, and might have thought shame, spends twelve", "Line_09": "hundred pount in a year, like a lord in Parliament.", "Line_10": "Where is he now? Well, he's dead now and under", "Line_11": "hatches; but for two year before that, shiver my timbers!", "Line_12": "the man was starving. he begged, and he stole, and", "Line_13": "he cut throats, and starved at that, by the powers!\"", "Line_14": "\"Well, it aint must use, after all,\" said the young", "Line_15": "seamna.", "Line_16": "\"Tain't much use for fools, you may lay to it -", "Line_17": "that, nor nothing,\" cried Silver. \"But now, you look", "Line_18": "here: you're young, you are, but you're as smart as", "Line_19": "paint. I see that when I set my eyes on you, and I'll", "Line_20": "talk to you like a man.\"", "Line_21": "You may imagine how I felt when I heard this", "Line_22": "Abominable old rogue addressing another in the very", "Line_23": "same words of flattery as he had used to myself. I", "Line_24": "think, if I had been able, that I would have killed him", "Line_25": "through the barrel. Meantime, he ran on, little", "Line_26": "supposing he was overheard.", "Line_27": "\"Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives", "Line_28": "rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink", "Line_29": "like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's" }] }, "Lesson_0088": { "Name": "Lesson_0088", "Number": 88, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 11 - Page 87: What I Heard in the Apple Barrel", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "hundreds of pounts instead of hundreds of farthings in", "Line_02": "their pockets. Now, the most goes for rum and a good", "Line_03": "fling, and to sea again in their shirts. But that's not", "Line_04": "the course I lay. I puts it all away, some here, some", "Line_05": "there, and none to much anywheres, by reason of", "Line_06": "suspicion. I'm fifty, mark you; once back from this", "Line_07": "cruise, I set up gentleman in earnest. Time enough,", "Line_08": "too, says you. Ah, but I've lived easy in the meantime;", "Line_09": "never denied myself o' nothing heart desires, and slep\"", "Line_10": "soft and ate dainty all my days, but when at sea.", "Line_11": "And how did I begin? Before the mast, like", "Line_12": "you!\"", "Line_13": "\"Well,\" said the other,\"but all the other money's", "Line_14": "gone now, aint it? You daren't show face in Bristol", "Line_15": "after this.\"", "Line_16": "\"Why, where might you suppose it was?\" asked", "Line_17": "Silver, derisively.", "Line_18": "\"At Bristol, in banks and places,\" answered his", "Line_19": "companion.", "Line_20": "\"It were,\" said the cook; \"it were when we", "Line_21": "weighed anchor. But my old missis has it all by now.", "Line_22": "And the \"Spy-glass\" is sold, lease and goodwill and", "Line_23": "rigging; and the old girl's off to meet me. I would", "Line_24": "tell you where, for I trust you; but it 'ud make", "Line_25": "jealousy among the mates.\"", "Line_26": "\"And can you trust your missis?\" asked the", "Line_27": "other.", "Line_28": "\"Gentlemen of fortune,\" returned the cook,", "Line_29": "\"usually trusts little among themselves, and right they" }] }, "Lesson_0089": { "Name": "Lesson_0089", "Number": 89, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 11 - Page 88: What I Heard in the Apple Barrel", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "are, you may lay to it. But I have a way with me, I", "Line_02": "have. When a mate brings a slip on his cable - one as", "Line_03": "knows me, I mean - it won't be in the same world with", "Line_04": "old John. There was some that was feared of Pew, and", "Line_05": "some that was feared of Flint; but Flint his own self", "Line_06": "was feared of me. Feared he was, and proud. They", "Line_07": "was the roughest crew afloat, was Flint's; the devil", "Line_08": "himself would have been feared to go to sea with them.", "Line_09": "Well, now, I tell you, I'm not a boasting man, and you", "Line_10": "seen yourself how easy I keep company; but when I was", "Line_11": "quartermaster, lambs wasn't the word for Flint's old", "Line_12": "buccaneers. Ah, you may be sure of yourself in old", "Line_13": "John's ship.\"", "Line_14": "\"Well, I tell you now,\" replied the lad,\"I didn't", "Line_15": "half a quarter like the job till I had this talk with you,", "Line_16": "John; but there's my hand on it now.\"", "Line_17": "\"And a brave lad you were, and smart, too,\"", "Line_18": "answered Silver, shaking hands so heartily that all", "Line_19": "the barrel shook,\"and a finer figure head for a gentleman", "Line_20": "of fortune I never clapped my eyes on.\"", "Line_21": "By this time I had begun to understand the meaning", "Line_22": "of their terms. By a \"gentleman of fortune\" they", "Line_23": "plainly meant neither more nor less than a common", "Line_24": "pirate, and the little scene that I had overheard was", "Line_25": "the last act in the corruption of one of the honest", "Line_26": "hands - perhaps of the last one left aboard. But on", "Line_27": "this point I was soon to be relieved, for Silver giving", "Line_28": "a little whistle, a third man strolled up and sat down by", "Line_29": "the party." }] }, "Lesson_0090": { "Name": "Lesson_0090", "Number": 90, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 11 - Page 89: What I Heard in the Apple Barrel", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "\"Dick's square,\" said Silver.", "Line_02": "\"Oh, I know'd Dick was square,\" returned th", "Line_03": "voice of the coxswain, Israel Hands. \"He's no fool,", "Line_04": "is Dick.\" And he turned his quid and spat. \"But,", "Line_05": "look here,\" he went on,\"here's what I want to know,", "Line_06": "Barbecue: how long are we a-going to stand off and on", "Line_07": "like a blessed bumboat? I've had a'most enough o'", "Line_08": "Cap'n Smollett; he's hazed me long enough, by", "Line_09": "thunder! I want to go into that cabin, I do. I want", "Line_10": "their pickles and wines, and that.\"", "Line_11": "\"Israel,\" said Silver,\"your head aint much", "Line_12": "account, nor ever was. But you're able to hear, I", "Line_13": "reckon; leastways, your ears is big enough. Now,", "Line_14": "here's what I say: you'll berth forward, and you'll live", "Line_15": "hard, and you'll speak soft, and you'll keep sober, till", "Line_16": "I give the word; and you may lay to that, my son.\"", "Line_17": "\"Well, I don't say no, do I?\" growled the coxswain.", "Line_18": "\"what I say is, when? That's what I say.\"", "Line_19": "\"when! by the powers!\" cried Silver. \"Well,", "Line_20": "now, if you want to know, I'll tell you when. The", "Line_21": "last moment I can manage; and that's when. here's", "Line_22": "a first-rate seaman, Cap'n Smollett, sails the blessed", "Line_23": "ship for us. here's this squire and doctor with a", "Line_24": "map and such - I don't know where it is, do I? No", "Line_25": "more do you, says you. Well, then, I mean this squire", "Line_26": "and doctor shall find the stuff, and help us to get it", "Line_27": "aboard, by the powers. Then we'll see. If I was", "Line_28": "sure of all, sons of double Dutchmen, I'd have" }] }, "Lesson_0091": { "Name": "Lesson_0091", "Number": 91, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 11 - Page 90: What I Heard in the Apple Barrel", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Cap'n Smollett navigate us half-way back again before", "Line_02": "I struck.\"", "Line_03": "\"Why, we're all seamen aboard here, I should", "Line_04": "think,\" said the lad Dick.", "Line_05": "\"We're all foc's'le hands, you mean,\" snapped", "Line_06": "Silver. \"We can steer a course, but who's to set one?", "Line_07": "That's what all you gentlemen split on, first and last.", "Line_08": "If I had my way, I'd have Cap'n Smollett work us", "Line_09": "back into the trades at least; then we'd have no blessed", "Line_10": "miscalculations and a spoonful of water a day. But I", "Line_11": "know the sort you are. I'll finish with 'em at the island,", "Line_12": "as soon's the blunt's on board, and a pity it is. But", "Line_13": "you're never happy till your drunk. Split my sides,", "Line_14": "I've a sick heart to sail with the likes of you!\"", "Line_15": "\"Easy all, Long John,\" cried Israel. \"Who's", "Line_16": "a-crossin' of you?\"", "Line_17": "\"Why, how many tall ships, think ye, now, have I", "Line_18": "seen laid aboard? and how many brisk lads drying in", "Line_19": "the sun at Execution Dock?\" cried Silver,\"and all", "Line_20": "for this same hurry and hurry and hurry. You hear", "Line_21": "me? I seen a thing or two at sea, I have. If you", "Line_22": "would on'y lay your course, and a p'int to windward,", "Line_23": "you would ride in carriages, you would. But not you!", "Line_24": "I know you. You'll have your mouthfull of rum", "Line_25": "tomorrow, and go hang.\"", "Line_26": "\"Everybody know'd you was a kind of a chapling,", "Line_27": "John; but there's others as could hand and steer as", "Line_28": "well as you,\" said Israel. \"They liked a bit o\"", "Line_29": "fun, they did. They wasn't so high and dry, nohow," }] }, "Lesson_0092": { "Name": "Lesson_0092", "Number": 92, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 11 - Page 91: What I Heard in the Apple Barrel", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "but took their fling, like jolly companions every", "Line_02": "one.\"", "Line_03": "\"So?\" says Silver. \"Well, and where are they", "Line_04": "now? Pew was that sort, and he died a beggar-man.", "Line_05": "Flint was, and he dies of rum at Savannah. Ah, they", "Line_06": "was a sweet crew, they was! on'y, where are they?\"", "Line_07": "\"But,\" asked Dick,\"when we do lay 'em athward,", "Line_08": "what are we to do with 'em, anyhow?\"", "Line_09": "\"There's the man for me!\" cried the cook, admiringly.", "Line_10": "\"That's what I call business. Well, what", "Line_11": "would you think? Put 'em ashore like maroons? That", "Line_12": "would have been England's way. Or cut 'em down", "Line_13": "like that much pork? That would have been Flint's or", "Line_14": "Billy Bones's.\"", "Line_15": "\"Billy was the man for that,\" said Israel. \"Dead", "Line_16": "men don't bite,\" says he. Well, he's dead now hisself;", "Line_17": "he knows the long and short of it now; and if ever a", "Line_18": "rough hand come to port, it was Billy.\"", "Line_19": "\"right you are,\" said Silver,\"rought and ready.", "Line_20": "But mark you here: I'm an easy man - I'm quite the", "Line_21": "gentleman, says you; but this time it's serious. Dooty", "Line_22": "id dooty, mates. I give my vote - death. When I'm", "Line_23": "in Parlyment, and riding in my coach, I don't want", "Line_24": "none of these sea-lawyers in the cabin a-coming home,", "Line_25": "unlooked for, like the devil at prayers. Wait is what I", "Line_26": "say; but when the times comes, why let her rip!\"", "Line_27": "\"Joh,\" cries the coxswain,\"you're a man!\"", "Line_28": "\"You'll say so, Israel, when you see,\" said Silver.", "Line_29": "Only one thing I claim - I claim Trelawney. I'll" }] }, "Lesson_0093": { "Name": "Lesson_0093", "Number": 93, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 11 - Page 92: What I Heard in the Apple Barrel", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "wring his calf's head off his body with these hands,", "Line_02": "Dick!\" he added, breaking off,\"you just jump up, like", "Line_03": "a sweet lad, and get me an apple, to wet my pipe", "Line_04": "like.\"", "Line_05": "You may fancy the terror I was in! I should have", "Line_06": "leaped out and run for it, if I had found the strength;", "Line_07": "but my limbs and heart alike misgave me. I heard", "Line_08": "Dick begin to rise, and then some one seemingly stopped", "Line_09": "him, and the voice of Hands exlaimed: -", "Line_10": "\"Oh, stow that! Don't you get sucking of that", "Line_11": "bilge, John. Let's have a go of the rum.\"", "Line_12": "\"Dick,\" said Silver,\"I trust you. I've a gauge", "Line_13": "on the keg, mind. There's the key; you fill a pannikin", "Line_14": "and bring it up.\"", "Line_15": "Terrified as I was, I could not help thinking to", "Line_16": "myself that this must have been how Mr. Arrow got the", "Line_17": "strong waters that destroyed him.", "Line_18": "Dick was gone but a little while, and during his", "Line_19": "absence Isreal spoke straight on in the cooks ear. It", "Line_20": "was but a word or two that I could catch, and yet I", "Line_21": "gathered some important news; for, besides other scrpas", "Line_22": "that tended to the same purpose, this whole clause was", "Line_23": "audible: \"Not another man of them 'll jine.\" Hence", "Line_24": "there was still faithful men on board.", "Line_25": "When Dick returned, one after another of the trio", "Line_26": "took the pannikin and drank - one \"To luck;\" another", "Line_27": "with a \"Here's to old Flint;\" and Silver himself saying,", "Line_28": "in a kind of song,\"Here's to ourselves, and hold", "Line_29": "your liff, plenty of prizes and plenty of duff.\"" }] }, "Lesson_0094": { "Name": "Lesson_0094", "Number": 94, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 11 - Page 93: What I Heard in the Apple Barrel", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Just then a sort of brightness fell upon me in the", "Line_02": "barrel, and, looking up, I found the moon had risen,", "Line_03": "and was ilvering the mizzen-top and shining white on", "Line_04": "the luff of the fore-sail; and almost at the same time the", "Line_05": "voice of the look-out shouted,\"Land ho!\"" }] }, "Lesson_0095": { "Name": "Lesson_0095", "Number": 95, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 12 - Page 94: Council of War", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Chapter 12", "Line_02": "Council of War", "Line_03": "There was a great rush of feet across the deck, I could", "Line_04": "hear people tumbling up from the cabin and the foc's'le;", "Line_05": "and, slipping in an instant outside my barrel, I dived", "Line_06": "behind the fore-sale, made a double towards the stern,", "Line_07": "and came out upon the open deck in time to join", "Line_08": "Hunter and Dr. Livesey in the rush for the weather bow.", "Line_09": "There all hands were already congregated. A belt", "Line_10": "of fog had lifted almost simultaneously with the appearance", "Line_11": "of the moon. Away to the south-west of us", "Line_12": "we saw two low hills, about a douple of miles apart, and", "Line_13": "rising behind one of them a third and higher hill, whose", "Line_14": "peak was still buried in the fog. All three seemed sharp", "Line_15": "and conical in figure.", "Line_16": "So much I saw, almost in a dream, for I had not yet", "Line_17": "recovered from my horrid fear of a minute or two", "Line_18": "before. And then I heard the voice of Captain", "Line_19": "Smollett issuing orders. The Hispaniola was laid a", "Line_20": "couple of points nearer the wind, and now sailed a", "Line_21": "course that would just clear the island on the east.", "Line_22": "\"And now, men,\" said the captain, when all was" }] }, "Lesson_0096": { "Name": "Lesson_0096", "Number": 96, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 12 - Page 95: Council of War", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "sheeted home,\"has any one of you ever seen that land", "Line_02": "ahead?\"", "Line_03": "\"I have, sir,\" said Silver. \"I've watered there", "Line_04": "with a trader I was cook in.\"", "Line_05": "\"The anchorage is on the south, behind an islet, I", "Line_06": "fancy?\" asked the captain.", "Line_07": "\"yes, sir; Skeleton Island they calls it. It were a", "Line_08": "main place for pirates once, and a hand we had on board", "Line_09": "knowed all their names for it. That hill to the nor'ard", "Line_10": "they calls the Fore-mast Hill; there are three hills in a", "Line_11": "row running south'ard - fore, main, and mizzen, sir.", "Line_12": "But the main - that's the big 'un, with the cloud on it", "Line_13": "- they usually calls the Spy-glass, by reason of a look-out", "Line_14": "they kept when they was in the anchorage cleaning;", "Line_15": "for it's there they cleaned their ships, sir, asking your", "Line_16": "pardon.\"", "Line_17": "\"I have a chart here,\" says Captain Smollett.", "Line_18": "\"See if that's the place.\"", "Line_19": "Long John's eyes burned in his head as he took the", "Line_20": "chart; but, by the fresh look of the paper, I knew he", "Line_21": "was doomed to disappointment. This was not the map", "Line_22": "we found in Billy Bone's chest, but an accurate copy,", "Line_23": "complete in all things - names and heights and soundings -", "Line_24": "with the single exception of the red crosses and", "Line_25": "the written notes. Sharp as must have been his annoyance,", "Line_26": "Silver had the strength of mind to hide it.", "Line_27": "\"Yes, sir,\" said he,\"this is the spot to be sure;", "Line_28": "and very prettily drawed out. Who might have done", "Line_29": "that, I wonder? The pirates were too ignorant, I" }] }, "Lesson_0097": { "Name": "Lesson_0097", "Number": 97, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 12 - Page 96: Council of War", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "reckon. Ay, here it is: \"Capt. Kidd's Anchorage\" -", "Line_02": "just the name my shipmate called it. There's a strong", "Line_03": "current runs along the south, and then away nor'ard up", "Line_04": "the west coast. Right you was, sir,\" says he,\"to haul", "Line_05": "your wind and keep the weather of the island. Leastways,", "Line_06": "if such was your intention as to enter and careen,", "Line_07": "and there ain't no better place for that in these waters.\"", "Line_08": "\"Thank you, my man,\" says Captain Smollett.", "Line_09": "\"I'll ask you, later on, to give us a help. You may", "Line_10": "go.\"", "Line_11": "I was surprised at the cooness with which John", "Line_12": "avowed his knowledge of the island; and I own I was", "Line_13": "half-frightened when I saw him draing nearer to", "Line_14": "myself. He did not know, to be sure, that I had", "Line_15": "overheard his council from the apple barrel, and yet", "Line_16": "I had, by this time taken such a horror of his", "Line_17": "cruelty, duplicity, and power, that I could scarce", "Line_18": "conceal a shudder when he laid his hand upon my", "Line_19": "arm.", "Line_20": "\"Ah,\" says he,\"this here is a sweet spot, this", "Line_21": "island - a sweet spot for a lad to get ashore on. You'll", "Line_22": "bathe, and you'll climb trees, and you'll hunt goats,", "Line_23": "you will; and you'll get aloft on them hills like a goat", "Line_24": "yourself. Why, it makes me young again. I was", "Line_25": "going to forget my timber leg, I was. It's a pleasant", "Line_26": "thing to be yound, and have ten toes, and you may lay", "Line_27": "to that. When you want to go a bit of exploring, you", "Line_28": "just ask old John, and he'll put up a snack for you to", "Line_29": "take along.\"" }] }, "Lesson_0098": { "Name": "Lesson_0098", "Number": 98, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 12 - Page 97: Council of War", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "And clapping me in the friendliest way upon the", "Line_02": "shoulder, he hobbled off forward, and went below.", "Line_03": "Captain Smollett, the squire, and Dr. Livesey were", "Line_04": "talking together on the quarter-deck, and, anxious as", "Line_05": "I was to tell them my story, I durst not interupt them", "Line_06": "openly. While I was still casting about in my thoughts", "Line_07": "to find some probable excuse, Dr. Livesey called me to", "Line_08": "his side. He had left his pipe below, and being a slave", "Line_09": "to tobacco, had meant that I should fetch it; but as", "Line_10": "soon as I was nearing enough to speak and not to be overheard,", "Line_11": "I broke out immediately: - \"Doctor, let me speak.", "Line_12": "Get the captain and squire down to the cabin, and then", "Line_13": "make some pretence to send for me. I have terrible", "Line_14": "news.\"", "Line_15": "The doctor changed countenance a little, but next", "Line_16": "moment he was master of himself.", "Line_17": "\"Thank you, Jim,\" said he, quite loudly,\"that", "Line_18": "was all I wanted to know,\" as if he had asked me a question.", "Line_19": "and with that he turned on his heel and rejoined", "Line_20": "the other two. They spoke together for a little, and", "Line_21": "though none of them started, or raised his voice, or so", "Line_22": "much as whistled, it was plain enough toat Dr. Livesey", "Line_23": "had communicated my request; for the next thing that", "Line_24": "I heard was the captain giving an order to Job Anderson,", "Line_25": "and all hands were piped on deck.", "Line_26": "\"My lads,\" said Captain Smollett,\"I've a word to", "Line_27": "say to you. This land that we have sighted is the place", "Line_28": "we have been sailing for. Mr. Trelawney, being a very" }] }, "Lesson_0099": { "Name": "Lesson_0099", "Number": 99, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 12 - Page 98: Council of War", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "open-handed gentleman, as we all know, has just asked", "Line_02": "me a word or two, and as I was able to tell him that", "Line_03": "every man on board had done his duty, alow and aloft,", "Line_04": "as I never ask to see it done better, why, he and I and", "Line_05": "the doctor are going below to the cabin to drink your", "Line_06": "health and luck, and you'll have grog served out for you", "Line_07": "to drink our health and luck. I'll tell you what I", "Line_08": "think of this: I think it handsome. And if you think", "Line_09": "as I do, you'll give a good sea cheer for the gentleman", "Line_10": "that does it.\"", "Line_11": "The cheer followed - that was a matter of course;", "Line_12": "but it rang out so full and hearty, that I confess I could", "Line_13": "hardly believe these same men were plotting for our", "Line_14": "blood.", "Line_15": "\"One more cheer for Cap'n Smollett,\" cried Long", "Line_16": "John, when the first had subsided.", "Line_17": "And this also was given with a will.", "Line_18": "On the top of that the htree gentlemen went below,", "Line_19": "and not long after, word was sent forward that Jim", "Line_20": "Hawkins was wanted in the cabin.", "Line_21": "I found them all three seated round the table, a", "Line_22": "bottle of Spanish winde and some raisins before them,", "Line_23": "adn the doctor smoking away, with his wig on his lap,", "Line_24": "and that, I knew, was a sign that he was agitated. The", "Line_25": "stern window was open, for it was a warm night, and", "Line_26": "you could see the moon shining behind on the ship's", "Line_27": "wake.", "Line_28": "\"Now, Hawkins,\" said the squire,\"you have something", "Line_29": "to say. Speak up.\"" }] }, "Lesson_0100": { "Name": "Lesson_0100", "Number": 100, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 12 - Page 99: Council of War", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "I did as I was bid, and as short as I could make it,", "Line_02": "tell the whole details of Silver's conversation. Nobody", "Line_03": "interrupted me till I was done, nor did any one of the", "Line_04": "three of them make so much as a movement, but they", "Line_05": "kept their eyes upon my face from first to last.", "Line_06": "\"Jim,\" said Dr. Livesey,\"take a seat.\"", "Line_07": "And they made me sit down at table beside them,", "Line_08": "poured me out a glass of wine, filled my hands with", "Line_09": "raisins, and all three, one after the other, and each with", "Line_10": "a bow, drank my good health, and their service to me,", "Line_11": "for my luck and courage.", "Line_12": "\"Now, captain,\" said the squire,\"you were right,", "Line_13": "and I was wrong. I own myself an ass, and I await", "Line_14": "your orders.\"", "Line_15": "\"No more an ass than I, sir,\" returned the captain.", "Line_16": "I never heard of a crew that meant to mutiny but", "Line_17": "what showed signs before, for any man that had an eye", "Line_18": "in his head to see the mischief and take steps according.", "Line_19": "But this crew,\" he added,\"beats me.\"", "Line_20": "\"Captain,\" said the doctor,\"with your permission,", "Line_21": "that's Silver. A very remarkable man.\"", "Line_22": "\"He'd look remarkably well from a yard-arm, sir,\"", "Line_23": "returned the captain. \"But this is talk; this don't", "Line_24": "lead to anything. I see three or four points, and with", "Line_25": "Mr. Trelawney's permission, I'll name them.\"", "Line_26": "\"You, sir, are the captain. It is for you to speak,\"", "Line_27": "says Mr. Trelawney, grandly.", "Line_28": "First point,\" began Mr. Smollett. \"We must go", "Line_29": "on, because we can't turn back. If I gave the word to" }] }, "Lesson_0101": { "Name": "Lesson_0101", "Number": 101, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 12 - Page 100: Council of War", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "got about, they would raise at once. Second point, we", "Line_02": "have time before us - at least, until this treasure's", "Line_03": "found. Third point, there are faithful hands. Now,", "Line_04": "sir, it's got to come to blows sooner or later; and what", "Line_05": "I propose is, to take time by the forelock, as the saying", "Line_06": "is, and come to blows some fine day when they least", "Line_07": "expect it. We can count, I take it, on your own home", "Line_08": "servants, mr. Trelawney?\"", "Line_09": "\"As upon myself,\" declared the squire.", "Line_10": "\"Three,\" reckoned the captain,\"ourselves make", "Line_11": "seven, counting Hawkins, here. Now, about the", "Line_12": "honest hands?\"", "Line_13": "\"Most likely Trelawney's own men,\" said the doctor;", "Line_14": "\"those he had picked up for himself, before he lit on", "Line_15": "Silver.\"", "Line_16": "\"Nay,\" replied the squire,\"Hands was one of", "Line_17": "mine.\"", "Line_18": "\"I did think I could have trusted Hands,\" added", "Line_19": "the captain.", "Line_20": "\"And to think that they're all Englishmen!\"", "Line_21": "broke out the squire. \"Sir, I could find it in my heart", "Line_22": "to blow the ship up.\"", "Line_23": "\"Well, gentlemen,\" said the captain,\"the best that", "Line_24": "I can say is not much. We must lay to, if you please,", "Line_25": "and keep a bright look out. It's trying on a man, I", "Line_26": "know. It would be pleasanter to come to blows. But", "Line_27": "there's no help for it till we know our men. Lay to,", "Line_28": "and whistle for a wind, that's my view.\"", "Line_29": "\"Jim here,\" said the doctor,\"can help us more" }] }, "Lesson_0102": { "Name": "Lesson_0102", "Number": 102, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 2 - Chapter 12 - Page 101: Council of War", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "than any one. The men are not shy with him, and Jim", "Line_02": "is a noticing lad.\"", "Line_03": "\"Hawkins, I put prodigious faith in you,\" added", "Line_04": "the squire.", "Line_05": "I began to feel pretty desperate at this, for I felt", "Line_06": "altogether helpless; and yet, by an odd train of", "Line_07": "circumstances, it was indeed through me that safety came.", "Line_08": "In the meantime, talk as we pleased, there were only", "Line_09": "seven out of the twenty-six on whom we knew we", "Line_10": "could rely; and out of these seven one was a boy, so", "Line_11": "that the grown men on our side were six to their nineteen." }] }, "Lesson_0103": { "Name": "Lesson_0103", "Number": 103, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 3 - Chapter 13 - Page 102: How My Shore Adventure Began", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Part 3", "Line_02": "My Shore Adventure", "Line_03": "Chapter 13", "Line_04": "How My Shore Adventure Began", "Line_05": "The appearance of the island when I came on deck next", "Line_06": "morning was altogether changed. Although the breeze", "Line_07": "had now utterly ceased, we had made a great deal of", "Line_08": "way during the night, and were not laying becalmed", "Line_09": "about half a mile to the south-east of the low eastern", "Line_10": "coast. Grey-coulured woods covered a large part of the", "Line_11": "surface. This even tint was indeed broken up by streaks", "Line_12": "of yellow sandbreak in the lower lands, and by many", "Line_13": "tall trees of the pine family, out-topping the others -", "Line_14": "some singly, some in clumps; but the general colouring", "Line_15": "was uniform and sad. The hills ran up clear above the", "Line_16": "vegetation inspires of naked rock. All were stragely", "Line_17": "shaped, and the Spy-glass, which was by three or four", "Line_18": "hundred feet the tallest on the island, was likewise the", "Line_19": "strangest in configuration, running up sheer from almost", "Line_20": "every side, and then suddenly cut off at the top like a", "Line_21": "pedestal to put a statue on." }] }, "Lesson_0104": { "Name": "Lesson_0104", "Number": 104, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 3 - Chapter 13 - Page 103: How My Shore Adventure Began", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "The Hispaniola was rolling scuppers under in the", "Line_02": "ocean swell. The booms were tearing at the blocks,", "Line_03": "the rudder was banging to and fro, and the whole ship", "Line_04": "creaking, groaning, and jumping like a manufactory.", "Line_05": "I had to cling tight to the backstay, and the world", "Line_06": "turned giddily before my eyes; for though I was a good", "Line_07": "enough sailore when there was way on, this standing", "Line_08": "still and being rolled about like a bottle was a thing I", "Line_09": "never learned to stand without a qualm or so, above all", "Line_10": "in the morning, on an empty stomach.", "Line_11": "Perhpas it was this - perhaps it was the look of the", "Line_12": "island, with its grey, melancholy woods, and wild stone", "Line_13": "spires, and the surf that we could both see and hear", "Line_14": "foaming and thundering on the steep beach - at least,", "Line_15": "although the sun shone bright and hot, and the shore", "Line_16": "birds were fishing and crying all around us, and you", "Line_17": "would have thought any one would have been glad to get", "Line_18": "to land after being so long at sea, my heart sank, as", "Line_19": "the saying is, into my boots; and from that first look", "Line_20": "onward, I hated the very thought of Treasure Island.", "Line_21": "We had a dreary morning's work before us, for there", "Line_22": "was no sign of any wind, and the boats had to be got", "Line_23": "out and manned, and the ship warped three or four", "Line_24": "miles round the corner of the island, and up the narrow", "Line_25": "passage to the have behind Skeleton Island. I", "Line_26": "volunteered for one of the boats, where I had, of course,", "Line_27": "no business. The heat was sweltering, and the men", "Line_28": "grumbled fiercely over their work. Anderson was", "Line_29": "in command of my boat, and instead of keeping" }] }, "Lesson_0105": { "Name": "Lesson_0105", "Number": 105, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 3 - Chapter 13 - Page 104: How My Shore Adventure Began", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "the crew in order, he grumbled as loud as the", "Line_02": "worst.", "Line_03": "\"Well,\" he said, with an oath,\"it's not for", "Line_04": "ever.\"", "Line_05": "I thought this was a very bad sign; for, up to that", "Line_06": "day, the men had gone briskly and willingly about their", "Line_07": "business; but the very sight of the island had relaxed", "Line_08": "the cords of discipline.", "Line_09": "All the way in, Long John stood by the steersman", "Line_10": "And conned the ship. He knew the passage like the", "Line_11": "palm of his hand; and though the man in the chains", "Line_12": "got everywhere more water than was down in the chart,", "Line_13": "John never hesitated once.", "Line_14": "\"There's a strong scour with the ebb,\" he said,", "Line_15": "\"and this here passage has been dug out, in a manner", "Line_16": "of speaking, with a spade.\"", "Line_17": "We brought up just where the anchor was in the", "Line_18": "chart, about a third of a mile from each shore, the", "Line_19": "mainland on one side, and Skeleton Island on the other.", "Line_20": "The bottom was clean sand. The plunge of our anchor", "Line_21": "sent up clouds of birds wheeling and crying over the", "Line_22": "woods; but in less than a minute they were down again,", "Line_23": "and all was once more silent.", "Line_24": "the place was entirely land-locked, buried in woods,", "Line_25": "the trees coming right down to high-water mark, the", "Line_26": "shores mostly flat, and the hilltops standing round at", "Line_27": "a distance in a sort of amphitheatre, one here, one", "Line_28": "there. Two little rivers, or, rather, two swamps,", "Line_29": "emptied out into this pond, as you might call it;" }] }, "Lesson_0106": { "Name": "Lesson_0106", "Number": 106, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 3 - Chapter 13 - Page 105: How My Shore Adventure Began", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "and the foliage round that part of the shore had a", "Line_02": "kind of posonous brightness, From the ship, we", "Line_03": "could see nothing of the house or stockade, for they", "Line_04": "were quite buried among trees; and if it had not been", "Line_05": "for the chart on the companion, we might have been the", "Line_06": "first that had ever anchored there since the island arose", "Line_07": "out of the seas.", "Line_08": "There was not a breath of air moving, nor a sound", "Line_09": "but that of the surf booming half a mile away along", "Line_10": "the beaches and against the rocks outside. A peculiar", "Line_11": "stagnant smell hung over the anchorage - a smell of", "Line_12": "sodden leaves and rotting tree trunks. I observed the", "Line_13": "doctor sniffing and sniffing, like some one tasting a bad", "Line_14": "egg.", "Line_15": "\"I don't know about treasure,\" he said,\"but I'll", "Line_16": "stake my wig there's fever here.\"", "Line_17": "If the conduct of the men had been alarming in", "Line_18": "the boat, it became truly threatening when they had", "Line_19": "come aboard. They lay about the deck growling", "Line_20": "together in talk. The slightest order was received", "Line_21": "with a black look, and grudgingly and carelessly obeyed.", "Line_22": "Even the honest hands must have caught the infection,", "Line_23": "for there was not one man aboard to mend another.", "Line_24": "Mutiny, it was plain, hung over us like a thunder-cloud.", "Line_25": "And it was not only we of the cabin party who", "Line_26": "perceived the danger. Long John was hard at work", "Line_27": "going from group to group, spending himself in good", "Line_28": "advice, and as for example no man couldh ave shown", "Line_29": "a better. He fairly outstripped himself in willingness" }] }, "Lesson_0107": { "Name": "Lesson_0107", "Number": 107, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 3 - Chapter 13 - Page 106: How My Shore Adventure Began", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "and civility; he was all smiles to every one. If an", "Line_02": "order were given, John would be on his crutch in an", "Line_03": "instant, with the cheeriest \"Ay, ay, sir!\" in the world;", "Line_04": "and when there was nothing else to do, he kept up one", "Line_05": "song after another, as if to conceal the discontent of the", "Line_06": "rest.", "Line_07": "Of all the gloomy features of that gloomy afternoon,", "Line_08": "this obvious anxiety on the part of Long John appeared", "Line_09": "the worst.", "Line_10": "We held a council in the cabin.", "Line_11": "\"Sir,\" said the captain,\"if I risk another order,", "Line_12": "the whole ship 'll come about our ears by the run. You", "Line_13": "see, sir, here it is. I get a rough answer, do I not?", "Line_14": "Well, if I speak back, pikes will be going in two shakes;", "Line_15": "if I don't, Silver will see there's something under that,", "Line_16": "and the gam'es up. Now, we've only one man to rely", "Line_17": "on.\"", "Line_18": "\"And who is that?\" asked the squire.", "Line_19": "\"Silver, sir,\" returned the captain; \"he's as", "Line_20": "anxious as you and I to smother things up. This is a", "Line_21": "tiff; he'd soon talk 'em out of it if he had the chance.", "Line_22": "Lets allow the men an afternoon ashore. If they all", "Line_23": "go, well, then, we hold the cabin, and God defend", "Line_24": "the right. If some go, you mark my words, sir,", "Line_25": "Silver 'll bring 'em aboard again as mild as", "Line_26": "lambs.\"", "Line_27": "It was so decided; loaded pistols were served out" }] }, "Lesson_0108": { "Name": "Lesson_0108", "Number": 108, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 3 - Chapter 13 - Page 107: How My Shore Adventure Began", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "to all the sure men; Hunter, Joyce, and Redruth were", "Line_02": "taken into our confidence, and received the news with", "Line_03": "less surprise and a better spirit than we had looked for,", "Line_04": "and then the captain went on deck and addressed", "Line_05": "the crew.", "Line_06": "\"My lads,\" said he,\"we've had a hot day, and", "Line_07": "are all tired and out of sorts. A turn ashore 'll hunt", "Line_08": "nobody - the boats are still in the water; you can", "Line_09": "take the gigs, and as many as please may go ashore", "Line_10": "for the afternoon. I'll fire a gun half an hour before", "Line_11": "sundown.\"", "Line_12": "I believe the silly fellows must have thought they", "Line_13": "would break their shins over treasure as soon as they", "Line_14": "were landed; for they all came out of their sulks in a", "Line_15": "moment, and gave a cheer that started the echo in a", "Line_16": "far-away hill, and sent the birds once more flying and", "Line_17": "squalling around the anchorage.", "Line_18": "The captain was too bright to be in the way.", "Line_19": "He whipped out of sight in a moment, leaving Silver", "Line_20": "to arrange the party; and I fancy it was as well", "Line_21": "he did so. Had he been on deck, he could no longer", "Line_22": "so much as have pretended not to understand the", "Line_23": "situation. It was as plain as day. Silver was the", "Line_24": "captain, and a mighty rebellious crew he had of it.", "Line_25": "The honest hands - and I was soon to see it proved", "Line_26": "that there were such on board - must have been very", "Line_27": "stupid fellows. Or, rather, I suppose the truth was", "Line_28": "this, that all hands were disaffected by the example", "Line_29": "of the ringleaders - only some more, some less; and a" }] }, "Lesson_0109": { "Name": "Lesson_0109", "Number": 109, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 3 - Chapter 13 - Page 108: How My Shore Adventure Began", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "few, being good fellows in the main, could neither be", "Line_02": "led nor driven any further. It is one thing to be", "Line_03": "idle and skulk, and quite another to take a ship and", "Line_04": "murder a number of innocent men.", "Line_05": "At last, however, the party was made up. Six", "Line_06": "fellows were to stay on board, and the remaining", "Line_07": "thirteen, including Silver, began to embark.", "Line_08": "Then it was that there came into my head the", "Line_09": "first of the mad notions that contributed so much to", "Line_10": "save our lives. If six men were left by Silver, it was", "Line_11": "plain our party could not take and fight the ship;", "Line_12": "and since only six were left, it was equally plain that", "Line_13": "the cabin party had no present need of my assistance.", "Line_14": "It occurred to me at once to go ashore. In a jiffy", "Line_15": "I had slipped over the side, and curled up in the", "Line_16": "fore-sheets of the nearest boat, and almost at the", "Line_17": "same moment she shoved off.", "Line_18": "No one took notice of me, only the bow ore", "Line_19": "saying,\"Is that you, Jim? Keep your head", "Line_20": "down.\" But Silver, from the other boat, looked", "Line_21": "sharply over and called out to know if that were me;", "Line_22": "and from that moment I began to regret what I had done.", "Line_23": "The crews raced for the beach; but the boat", "Line_24": "I was in, having some start, and being at once the", "Line_25": "lighter and the better manned, shot far ahead of her", "Line_26": "consort, and the bow had struck among the shoreside", "Line_27": "trees, and I had caught a branch and swung", "Line_28": "myself out, and plunged into the nearest thicket," }] }, "Lesson_0110": { "Name": "Lesson_0110", "Number": 110, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 3 - Chapter 13 - Page 109: How My Shore Adventure Began", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "while Silver and the rest were still a hundred yards", "Line_02": "behind.", "Line_03": "\"Jim, Jim!\" I heard him shouting.", "Line_04": "But you may suppose I paid no heed; jumping,", "Line_05": "ducking, and breaking through, I ran straight before", "Line_06": "my nose, till I could run no longer." }] }, "Lesson_0111": { "Name": "Lesson_0111", "Number": 111, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 3 - Chapter 14 - Page 110: The First Blow", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Chapter 14", "Line_02": "The First Blow", "Line_03": "I was so pleased at having given the slip to Long", "Line_04": "John, that I began to enjoy myself and look around", "Line_05": "me with some interest on the strange land that I", "Line_06": "was in.", "Line_07": "I had crossed a marchy tract full of willows,", "Line_08": "bulrushes, and odd, outlandish, swampy trees; and", "Line_09": "I had now come out upon the skirs of an open", "Line_10": "piece of undulating, sandy country, about a mile", "Line_11": "long, dotted with a few pines, and a great number", "Line_12": "of contorted trees, not unlike the oak in growth, but", "Line_13": "pale in the foliage, like willows. On the far side of", "Line_14": "the open stood one of the hills, with two quaint,", "Line_15": "craggy peaks, shining vividly in the sun.", "Line_16": "I now felt for the first time the joy of exploration.", "Line_17": "The isle was uninhabited; my shipmates I had left", "Line_18": "behind, and nothing lived in front of me but dumb", "Line_19": "brutes and fowls. I turned hither and thither among", "Line_20": "the trees. Here and there were flowering plants,", "Line_21": "unknown to me; here and there I saw snakes, and", "Line_22": "one raised his head from a ledge of rock and hissed", "Line_23": "at me with a noise not unlike the spinning of a top." }] }, "Lesson_0112": { "Name": "Lesson_0112", "Number": 112, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 3 - Chapter 14 - Page 111: The First Blow", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Little did I suppose that he was a deadly enemy, and", "Line_02": "that the noise was the famous rattle.", "Line_03": "Then I came to a long thicket of these oak-like", "Line_04": "trees - live, or evergreen, oaks, I heard afterwards they", "Line_05": "should be called - which grew low along the sand like", "Line_06": "brambles, the boughs curiously twisted, the foliage compact,", "Line_07": "like thatch. The thicket stretched down from the", "Line_08": "top of one of the sandy knolls, spreading and growing", "Line_09": "taller as it went, until it reached the margin of the", "Line_10": "broad, reedy fen, through which the nearest of the little", "Line_11": "rivers soaked its way into the anchorage. The marsh", "Line_12": "was steaming in the strong sun, and the outline of the", "Line_13": "Spy-glass trembled through the haze.", "Line_14": "All at once there began to go a sort of bustle among", "Line_15": "the bulrushes; a wild duck flew up with a quack,", "Line_16": "another followed, and soon over the whole surface of the", "Line_17": "marsh a great cloud of birds hung screaming and", "Line_18": "circling in the air. I judged at once that some of my", "Line_19": "shipmates must be drawing near along the boarders of", "Line_20": "the fen. Nor was I deceived; for soon I heard the", "Line_21": "very distant and low tones of a human voice, which,", "Line_22": "as I continued to give ear, grew steadily louder and", "Line_23": "nearer.", "Line_24": "this put me in a great fear, and I crawled under", "Line_25": "cover of the nearest live-oak, and squatted there,", "Line_26": "hearkening, as silent as a mouse.", "Line_27": "Another voice answered; and then the first voice,", "Line_28": "which I now recognised to be Silver's, once more took", "Line_29": "up the story, and ran on for a long while in a stream," }] }, "Lesson_0113": { "Name": "Lesson_0113", "Number": 113, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 3 - Chapter 14 - Page 112: The First Blow", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "only now and again interrupted by the other. By the", "Line_02": "sound they must have been talking earnestly, and", "Line_03": "almost fiercely; but no distinct word came to my", "Line_04": "hearing.", "Line_05": "At last the speakers seemed to have paused, and", "Line_06": "perhaps to have sat down; for not only did they cease", "Line_07": "to draw any nearer, but the birds themselves began to", "Line_08": "grow more quiet, and to settle again to their places in", "Line_09": "the swamp.", "Line_10": "And now I began to feel that I was neglecting my", "Line_11": "business; that since I had been so foolhardy as to come", "Line_12": "ashore with these desperadoes, that least I could do was", "Line_13": "to overhear them at their councils; and that my plain", "Line_14": "and obvious duty was to draw as close as I could manage,", "Line_15": "under the favourable ambush of the crouching trees.", "Line_16": "I could tell the direction of the speakers pretty", "Line_17": "exactly, not only by the sound of their voices, but by", "Line_18": "the behaviour of the few birds that still hung in alarm", "Line_19": "above the heads of the intruders.", "Line_20": "Crawling on all-fours, I made steadily but slowly", "Line_21": "towards them; till at last, rasing my head to an aperture", "Line_22": "among the leaves, I could see clear down into a", "Line_23": "little green dell beside the marsh, and closely set about", "Line_24": "with trees, where Long John Silver and another of the", "Line_25": "crew stood face to face in conversation.", "Line_26": "The sun beat full upon them. Silver had thrown", "Line_27": "his hat beside him on the ground, and his great, smooth,", "Line_28": "blond face, all shining with head, was lifted to the other", "Line_29": "man's in a kind of appeal." }] }, "Lesson_0114": { "Name": "Lesson_0114", "Number": 114, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 3 - Chapter 14 - Page 113: The First Blow", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "\"Mate,\" he was saying,\"it's because I thinks gold", "Line_02": "dust of you - gold dust, and you may lay to that! If", "Line_03": "I hadn't took to you like pitch, do you think I'd", "Line_04": "have been here a-warning of you? All's up - you", "Line_05": "can't make nor mend; it's to save your neck that", "Line_06": "I'm a-speaking, and if one of the wild 'uns knew it,", "Line_07": "where 'ud I be, Tom - now, tell me, where 'ud I", "Line_08": "be?\"", "Line_09": "\"Silver,\" said the other man - and I observed he", "Line_10": "was not only red in the face, but spoke as hoarse as a", "Line_11": "crow, and his voice shook, too, like a taut rope -", "Line_12": "\"silver,\" says he,\"you're old, and you're honest, or", "Line_13": "has the name for it; but you've money, too, which lots", "Line_14": "of poor sailors hasn't; and you're brave, or I'm mostook.", "Line_15": "And will you tell me you'll let yourself be led away with", "Line_16": "that kind of a mess of swabs? not you! As sure as", "Line_17": "God sees me, I'd sooner lose my hand. If I turn again", "Line_18": "my dooty -\"", "Line_19": "And then all of a sudden he was interrupted by a", "Line_20": "noise. I had found one of the honest hands - well,", "Line_21": "here, at that same moment, came news of another. Far", "Line_22": "away out in the marsh there arose, all of a sudden, a", "Line_23": "sound like the cry of anger, then another and the back of", "Line_24": "it; and then one horrid, long-drawn scream. The rocks", "Line_25": "of the Spy-glass re-echoed it a score of times; the", "Line_26": "whole troop of marsh-birds rose again, darkening heaven,", "Line_27": "with a simultaneous whirr; and long after that death", "Line_28": "yell was still ringing in my brain, silence had", "Line_29": "re-established its empire, and only the rustle of the", "Line_30": "redescending" }] }, "Lesson_0115": { "Name": "Lesson_0115", "Number": 115, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 3 - Chapter 14 - Page 114: The First Blow", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "birds and the boom of the distant surges disturbed the", "Line_02": "languor of the afternoon.", "Line_03": "Tom had leaped at the sound, like a horse at the", "Line_04": "spur; but Silver had not winked an eye. He stood", "Line_05": "where he was, resting lightly on his crutch, watching", "Line_06": "his companion like a snake about to spring.", "Line_07": "\"John!\" said the sailor, stretching out his hand.", "Line_08": "\"Hands off!\" cried Silver, leaping back a yeard, as", "Line_09": "it seemed to me, with the speed and security of a trained", "Line_10": "gymnast.", "Line_11": "\"Hands off, if you like, John Silver,\" said the", "Line_12": "other. \"It's a black conscience that can make you", "Line_13": "feared of me. But, in heaven's name, tell me what was", "Line_14": "that?\"", "Line_15": "\"That?\" returned Silver, smiling away, but warier", "Line_16": "than ever, his eye a mere pin-point in his big face, but", "Line_17": "gleaming like a crumb of glass. \"That? Oh, I reckon", "Line_18": "that'll be Alan.\"", "Line_19": "And at this poor Tom flashed out like a hero.", "Line_20": "\"Alan!\" he cired. \"Then rest his soul for a true", "Line_21": "seaman! And as for you, John Silver, long you've", "Line_22": "been a mate of mine, but you're mate of mine no more.", "Line_23": "If I die like a dog, I'll die in my dooty. You've killed", "Line_24": "Alan, have you? Kill me, too, if you can. But I", "Line_25": "defies you.\"", "Line_26": "And with that, this brave fellow turned his back", "Line_27": "directly on the cook, and set off walking for the beach.", "Line_28": "But he was not destined to go far. With a cry, John", "Line_29": "seized the branch of a tree, whipped the crutch out of his" }] }, "Lesson_0116": { "Name": "Lesson_0116", "Number": 116, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 3 - Chapter 14 - Page 115: The First Blow", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "armpit, and sent that uncouth missile hurtling through", "Line_02": "the air. It struck poor Tom, point foremost, and with", "Line_03": "stunning violence, right between the shoulders in the", "Line_04": "middle of his back. His hands flew up, he gave a sort", "Line_05": "of gasp, and fell.", "Line_06": "Whether he were injured much or little, none could", "Line_07": "ever tell. Like enough, to judge from the sound, his", "Line_08": "back was broken on the spot. But he had no time", "Line_09": "given him to recover. Silver, agile as a monkey, even", "Line_10": "without leg or crutch, was on the top of him next", "Line_11": "moment, and had twice buried his knife up to the hilt", "Line_12": "in that defenceless body. 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Everything else was unchanged, the", "Line_26": "sun still shining mercilessly on the steaming marsh and", "Line_27": "the tall pinnacle of the mountain, and I could scarce", "Line_28": "persuade myself that murder had been actually done." }] }, "Lesson_0117": { "Name": "Lesson_0117", "Number": 117, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 3 - Chapter 14 - Page 116: The First Blow", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "and a human life cruelly cut short a moment since,", "Line_02": "before my eyes.", "Line_03": "But now John put his hand into his pocket, brought", "Line_04": "out a whistle, and blew upon it several modulated", "Line_05": "blasts, that rand far across the heated air. I could not", "Line_06": "tell, of course, the meaning of the signal; but it", "Line_07": "instantly awoke my fears. More men would be", "Line_08": "coming. I might be discovered. They had already", "Line_09": "slain two of the honest people; after Tom and Alan,", "Line_10": "might not I come next?", "Line_11": "Instantly I began to extricate myself and crawl", "Line_12": "back again, with what speed and silence I could", "Line_13": "manage, to the more open portion of the wood. As I", "Line_14": "did so, I could hear hails coming and going between the", "Line_15": "old buccaneer and his comrades, and this sound of danger", "Line_16": "lent me wings. As soon as I was clear of the thicket,", "Line_17": "I ran as I never ran before, scarce minding the direction", "Line_18": "of my flight, so long as it led me from the murderers;", "Line_19": "and as I ran, fear grew and grew upon me, until it", "Line_20": "turned into a kind of frenzy.", "Line_21": "Indeed, could any one be more entirely lost than I?", "Line_22": "When the gun fired, how should I dare to go down", "Line_23": "to the boats among those fiends, still smoking from their", "Line_24": "crime? Would not the first of them who saw me", "Line_25": "wring my neck like a snipe's? Would not my absence", "Line_26": "itself be an evidence to them of my alarm, and therefore", "Line_27": "of my fatal knowledge? It was all over, I thought,", "Line_28": "Good-bye to the Hispaniola; good-bye to the squire, the", "Line_29": "doctor, and the captain! There was nothing left for me" }] }, "Lesson_0118": { "Name": "Lesson_0118", "Number": 118, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 3 - Chapter 14 - Page 117: The First Blow", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "but death by starvation, or death by the hands of the", "Line_02": "mutineers.", "Line_03": "All this while, as I say, I was still running, and,", "Line_04": "without taking any notice, I had drawn near to the foot", "Line_05": "of the little hill with the two peaks, and had got into a", "Line_06": "part of the island where the live-oaks grew more widely", "Line_07": "apart, and seemed more like forest trees in their bearing", "Line_08": "and dimensions. Mingled with those were a few", "Line_09": "scattered pincs, some fifty, some nearer seventy, feet", "Line_10": "high. 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I was tired, at any rate;", "Line_22": "but Had I been as fresh as when I rose, I could see it", "Line_23": "wasi n vain for me to content in speed with such an" }] }, "Lesson_0120": { "Name": "Lesson_0120", "Number": 120, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 3 - Chapter 15 - Page 119: The Man of the Island", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "adversary. From trunk to trunk the creater flitted", "Line_02": "like a deer, running manlike on two legs, but unlike", "Line_03": "any man that I had ever seen, stooping almost double", "Line_04": "as it ran. Yet a man it was, I could no longer be in", "Line_05": "doubt about that.", "Line_06": "I began to recall what I had heard of cannibals. I", "Line_07": "was within an ace of calling for help. But the mere", "Line_08": "fact that he was a man, however wild, had somewhat", "Line_09": "reassured me, and my fear of Silver began to revive in", "Line_10": "proportion. I stood still, therefore, and cast about for", "Line_11": "some method of escape; and as I was so thinking, the", "Line_12": "recolleciton of my pistol flashed into my mind. As soon", "Line_13": "as I remembered I was not defenceless, courage glowed", "Line_14": "again in my heart; and I set my face resolutely for", "Line_15": "this man of the island, and walked briskly towards him.", "Line_16": "He was concealed by this time, behind another tree", "Line_17": "trunk; but he must have been watching me closely, for", "Line_18": "as soon as I began to move in his direction he reappeared", "Line_19": "and took a step to meet me. Then he hesitated, drew", "Line_20": "back, came forward again, and at last, to my wonder and", "Line_21": "confusion, threw himself on his knees and held out his", "Line_22": "clasped hands in supplication.", "Line_23": "At that I once more stopped.", "Line_24": "\"Who are you?\" I asked.", "Line_25": "\"Ben Gunn,\" he answered, and his voice sounded", "Line_26": "hoarse and awkward, like a rusty lock. \"I'm poor", "Line_27": "Ben Gunn, I am; and I haven't spoke with a Christian", "Line_28": "these three years.\"" }] }, "Lesson_0121": { "Name": "Lesson_0121", "Number": 121, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 3 - Chapter 15 - Page 120: The Man of the Island", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "I could now see that he was a white man like myself,", "Line_02": "and that his features were even pleasing. His skin,", "Line_03": "wherever it was exposed, was burnt by the sun; even", "Line_04": "his lips were black, and his fair eyes looked quite", "Line_05": "startling in so dark a face. Of all the beggar-men", "Line_06": "that I had seen or fancied, he was the chief for raggedness.", "Line_07": "H was clothed with tatters of old ship's canvas", "Line_08": "and old sea cloth; and this extraordinary patchwork", "Line_09": "was all held together by a stsym of the most various", "Line_10": "and incongruous fastenings, brass buttons, bits of stick,", "Line_11": "and loops of tarry gaskin. about his waste he wore", "Line_12": "an old brass-buckled leather belt, which was the one", "Line_13": "thing solid in his whole accoutrement.", "Line_14": "\"Three years!\" I cried. \"Were you shipwrecked?\"", "Line_15": "\"Nay, mate,\" said he - \"marooned.\"", "Line_16": "I had heard the word, and I knew it stood for a", "Line_17": "horrible kind of punishment common enough among the", "Line_18": "buccaneers, in which the offender is put ashore with a", "Line_19": "little powder and shot, and left behind on some desolate", "Line_20": "and distant island.", "Line_21": "\"Marooned three years agone,\" he continued,\"and", "Line_22": "lived on goats since then, and berries, and oysters.", "Line_23": "Wherever a man is, says I, a man can do for himself.", "Line_24": "But, mate, my heart is sore for Christian diet. You", "Line_25": "mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you,", "Line_26": "now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed", "Line_27": "of cheese - toasted, mostly - and woke up again, and", "Line_28": "here I were.\"" }] }, "Lesson_0122": { "Name": "Lesson_0122", "Number": 122, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 3 - Chapter 15 - Page 121: The Man of the Island", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "\"If ever I can get aboard again,\" said I,\"you shall", "Line_02": "have cheese by the stone.\"", "Line_03": "All this time he had been feeling the stuff of my", "Line_04": "jacket, smoothing my hands, looking at my boots, and", "Line_05": "generally, in the intervals of his speech, showing a", "Line_06": "childish pleasure in the presence of a fellow-creature.", "Line_07": "But at my last words he perked up into a kind of", "Line_08": "startled slyness.", "Line_09": "\"If ever you can get aboard again, sayd you?\" he", "Line_10": "repeasted. \"Why, now, who's to hinder you?\"", "Line_11": "\"Not you, I know,\" was my reply.", "Line_12": "\"And right you was,\" he cried. \"Now you - what", "Line_13": "do you call yourself, mate?\"", "Line_14": "\"Jim,\" I told him.", "Line_15": "\"Jim, Jim,\" says he, quite pleased apparently.", "Line_16": "\"Well, now, Jim, I've lived that rough as you'd be", "Line_17": "ashamed to hear of. Now, for instance, you wouldn't", "Line_18": "think I had had a pious mother - to look at me?\" he asked.", "Line_19": "\"Why, no, not in particular,\" I answered.", "Line_20": "\"Ah, well,\" said he,\"but I had - remarkable pious.", "Line_21": "And I was a civil, pious boy, and could rattle off my", "Line_22": "catechism that fast, as you couldn't tell one word from", "Line_23": "another. And here's what it come to, Jim, and it", "Line_24": "begun with chuck-farthen on the blessed grave-stones!", "Line_25": "That's what it begun with, but it went further'n that;", "Line_26": "and so my mother told me, and predicked the whole, she", "Line_27": "did, the pious woman! But it were Providence that", "Line_28": "put me here. I've though it all out in this here lonely" }] }, "Lesson_0123": { "Name": "Lesson_0123", "Number": 123, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 3 - Chapter 15 - Page 122: The Man of the Island", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "island, and I'm back on piety. You don't catch me", "Line_02": "tasting rum so much; but just a thimbleful for luck,", "Line_03": "of course, the first chance I have. I'm bound I'll be", "Line_04": "good, and I see the way to. And, Jim\" - looking all", "Line_05": "round him, and lowering his voice to a whisper - \"I'm", "Line_06": "rich.\"", "Line_07": "I now felt sure that the poor fellow had gone crazy", "Line_08": "in his solitude, and I suppose I must have shown the", "Line_09": "feeling in my face,; for he repeated the statement", "Line_10": "hotly: -", "Line_11": "\"Rich! rich! I says. And I'll tell you what: I'll", "Line_12": "make a man of you, Jim. Ah, Jim, you'll bless", "Line_13": "your stars, you will, you was the first that found", "Line_14": "me!\"", "Line_15": "and at this there came suddenly a lowering shadow", "Line_16": "over his face, and he tightened his grasp upon my", "Line_17": "hand, and raised a forefinger threateningly before my", "Line_18": "eyes.", "Line_19": "\"Now, Jim, you tlel me true; that ain't Flint's", "Line_20": "ship?\" he asked.", "Line_21": "At this I had a happy inspiration. I began to", "Line_22": "believe that I had found an ally, and I answered him at", "Line_23": "once.", "Line_24": "\"It's not Flint's ship, and Flint is dead; but I'll", "Line_25": "tell you true, as you ask me - there are some of", "Line_26": "Flint's hands aboard; worse luck for the rest of", "Line_27": "us.\"", "Line_28": "\"Not a man - with one - leg?\" he gasped.", "Line_29": "\"Silver?\" I asked." }] }, "Lesson_0124": { "Name": "Lesson_0124", "Number": 124, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 3 - Chapter 15 - Page 123: The Man of the Island", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "\"Ah, Silver!\" says he; \"that were his name.\"", "Line_02": "\"He's the cook; and the ringleader, too.\"", "Line_03": "He was still holding me by the wrist, and at that he", "Line_04": "gave it quite a wring.", "Line_05": "\"If you was send by Long John,\" he said,\"I'm as", "Line_06": "good as pork, and I know it. But where was you, do", "Line_07": "you suppose?\"", "Line_08": "I had made my mind up in a moment, and by way", "Line_09": "of answer told him the whole story of our voyage, and", "Line_10": "the predicament in which we found ourselves. He", "Line_11": "heard me with the keenest interest, and when I had", "Line_12": "done he patted me on the head.", "Line_13": "\"You're a good lad, Jim,\" he said; \"and you're", "Line_14": "all in a clove hitch, aint you? Well, you just put your", "Line_15": "trust in Ben Gunn - Ben Gunn's the man to do it.", "Line_16": "Would you think it likely, now, that your squire would", "Line_17": "prove a liberal-minded one in case of help - him being in", "Line_18": "a clove hitch, as you remark?\"", "Line_19": "I told him the squire was the most liberal of men.", "Line_20": "\"Ay, but you see,' returned Ben Gunn,\"I didn't", "Line_21": "mean giving me a gate to keep, and a shuit of livery", "Line_22": "clothes, and such; that's not my mark, Jim. What", "Line_23": "I mean is, would he be likely to come down to the toon", "Line_24": "of, say one thousand pounds out of money that's as good", "Line_25": "as a man's own already?\"", "Line_26": "\"I am sure he would,\" said I. \"As it was, all", "Line_27": "hands were to share.\"", "Line_28": "\"And a passage home/\" he added, with a look of", "Line_29": "great shrewdness." }] }, "Lesson_0125": { "Name": "Lesson_0125", "Number": 125, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 3 - Chapter 15 - Page 124: The Man of the Island", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "\"Why,\" I cried, \"the squire's a gentleman. And,", "Line_02": "besides, if we got rid of the others, we should want you", "Line_03": "to help work the vessel home.\"", "Line_04": "\"Ah,\" said he, \"so you would.\" And he seemed", "Line_05": "very much relieved.", "Line_06": "\"Now, I'll tell you what,\" he went on. \"So much", "Line_07": "I'll tell you, and no more. I were in Flint's ship when", "Line_08": "he buried the treasure; he and six along—six strong", "Line_09": "seamen. They was ashore nigh on a week, and us", "Line_10": "standing off and on in the old Walrus. One fine day up", "Line_11": "went the signal, and here come Flint by himself in a", "Line_12": "little boat, and his head done up in a blue scarf. The", "Line_13": "sun was getting up, and mortal white he looked about", "Line_14": "the cutwater. But, there he was, you mind, and the", "Line_15": "six all dead—dead and buried. How he done it, not a", "Line_16": "man aboard us could make out. It was battle, murder,", "Line_17": "and sudden death, leastways—him against six. Billy", "Line_18": "Bones was the mate; Long John, he was quarter-", "Line_19": "master; and they asked him where the treasure", "Line_20": "was.\"", "Line_21": "\"Ah,\" says he, \"you can go ashore, if you", "Line_22": "like, and stay,\" he says;", "Line_23": "\"but as for the ship, she'll", "Line_24": "beat up for more, by thunder!\"", "Line_25": "\"That's what he", "Line_26": "said.\"", "Line_27": "\"Well, I was in another ship three years back, and", "Line_28": "we sighted this island. \"Boys,\" said I, \"here's Flint's", "Line_29": "treasure; let's land and find it.\" The cap'n was", "Line_30": "displeased at that; but my messmates were all of", "Line_31": "a mind, and landed. Twelve days they looked for it,", "Line_32": "and every day they had the worse word for me, until one" }] }, "Lesson_0126": { "Name": "Lesson_0126", "Number": 126, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 3 - Chapter 15 - Page 125: The Man of the Island", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "\"Fine morning all hands went aboard. \"As for you,", "Line_02": "Benjamin Gunn,\" says they, \"here's a musket,\" they", "Line_03": "says, \"and a spade, and pickaxe. You can stay", "Line_04": "here, and find Flint's money for yourself,\" they", "Line_05": "says.", "Line_06": "\"Well, Jim, three years have I been here, and", "Line_07": "not a bite of Christian diet from that day to this.", "Line_08": "But now, you look here; look at me. Do I look", "Line_09": "like a man before the mast? No, says you. Nor I", "Line_10": "weren't, neither, I says.\"", "Line_11": "And with that he winked and pinched me hard.", "Line_12": "\"Just you mention them words to your squire,", "Line_13": "Jim\"—he went on:", "Line_14": "\"Nor he weren't, neither—that's", "Line_15": "the words. Three years he were the man of this island,", "Line_16": "light and dark, fair and rain; and sometimes he would,", "Line_17": "maybe, think upon a prayer (says you), and some-", "Line_18": "times he would, maybe, think of his old mother, so", "Line_19": "be as she's alive (you'll say); but the most part of", "Line_20": "Gunn's time (this is what you'll say)—the most", "Line_21": "part of his time was took up with another matter.", "Line_22": "And then you'll give him a nip, like I do.\"", "Line_23": "And he pinched me again in the most confidential", "Line_24": "manner.", "Line_25": "\"Then,\" he continued—\"then you'll up, and you'll", "Line_26": "say this:—Gunn is a good man (you'll say), and he", "Line_27": "puts a precious sight more confidence—a precious sight,", "Line_28": "mind that—in a gen'leman born than in these gen'lemen", "Line_29": "of fortune, having been one hisself.\"", "Line_30": "\"Well,\" I said, \"I don't understand one word that" }] }, "Lesson_0127": { "Name": "Lesson_0127", "Number": 127, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 3 - Chapter 15 - Page 126: The Man of the Island", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "\"You've been saying. But that's neither here nor there;", "Line_02": "for how am I to get on board?\"", "Line_03": "\"Ah,\" said he, \"that's the hitch, for sure. Well,", "Line_04": "there's my boat, that I made with my two hands.", "Line_05": "I keep her under the white rock. If the worst come", "Line_06": "to the worst, we might try that after dark. Hi!\"", "Line_07": "he broke out, \"what's that?\"", "Line_08": "For just then, although the sun had still an hour", "Line_09": "or two to run, all the echoes of the island awoke and", "Line_10": "bellowed to the thunder of a cannon.", "Line_11": "\"They have begun to fight!\" I cried. \"Follow", "Line_12": "me.\"", "Line_13": "And I began to run towards the anchorage, my", "Line_14": "terrors all forgotten; while, close at my side, the", "Line_15": "marooned man in his goatskins trotted easily and", "Line_16": "lightly.", "Line_17": "\"Left, left,\" says he; \"keep to your left hand, mate", "Line_18": "Jim! Under the trees with you! Theer's where I", "Line_19": "killed my first goat. They don't come down here now;", "Line_20": "they're all mastheaded on them mountings for the fear", "Line_21": "of Benjamin Gunn. Ah! and there's the cetemery\"—", "Line_22": "cemetery, he must have meant. \"You see the mounds?", "Line_23": "I come here and prayed, nows and thens, when I thought", "Line_24": "maybe a Sunday would be about doo. It weren't quite", "Line_25": "a chapel, but it seemed more solemn like; and then,", "Line_26": "says you, Ben Gunn, was short-handed—no chapling,", "Line_27": "nor so much as a Bible and a flag, you says.\"", "Line_28": "So he kept talking as I ran, neither expecting nor", "Line_29": "receiving any answer." }] }, "Lesson_0128": { "Name": "Lesson_0128", "Number": 128, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 3 - Chapter 15 - Page 127: The Man of the Island", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "The cannon-shot was followed, after a considerable", "Line_02": "interval, by a volley of small arms.", "Line_03": "Another pause, and then, not a quarter of a mile in", "Line_04": "front of me, I beheld the Union Jack flutter in the air", "Line_05": "above a wood" }] }, "Lesson_0129": { "Name": "Lesson_0129", "Number": 129, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 16 - Page 128: How the Ship was Abandoned", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Part 4", "Line_02": "The Stockade", "Line_03": "Chapter 16", "Line_04": "Narrative Continued by the Doctor: How the Ship was Abandoned", "Line_05": "\"It was about half-past one—three bells in the sea", "Line_06": "phrase—that the two boats went ashore from the", "Line_07": "Hispaniola. The captain, the squire, and I were talking", "Line_08": "matters over in the cabin. Had there been a breath of", "Line_09": "wind, we should have fallen on the six mutineers who", "Line_10": "were left aboard with us, slipped our cable, and away to", "Line_11": "sea. But the wind was wanting; and, to complete our", "Line_12": "helplessness, down came Hunter with the news that Jim", "Line_13": "Hawkins had slipped into a boat and was gone ashore", "Line_14": "with the rest.", "Line_15": "It never occurred to us to doubt Jim Hawkins; but", "Line_16": "we were alarmed for his safety. With the men in the", "Line_17": "temper they were in, it seemed an even chance if we", "Line_18": "should see the lad again. We ran on deck. The", "Line_19": "pitch was bubbling in the seams; the nasty stench", "Line_20": "of the place turned me sick; if ever a man smelt fever" }] }, "Lesson_0130": { "Name": "Lesson_0130", "Number": 130, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 16 - Page 129: How the Ship was Abandoned", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "And dysentery, it was in that abominable anchorage.", "Line_02": "The six scoundrels were sitting grumbling under a sail", "Line_03": "in the forecastle; ashore we could see the gigs made", "Line_04": "fast, and a man sitting in each, hard by where the", "Line_05": "river runs in. One of them was whistling \"Lilli-", "Line_06": "bullero.\"", "Line_07": "Waiting was a strain; and it was decided that", "Line_08": "Hunter and I should go ashore with the jolly-boat, in", "Line_09": "quest of information.", "Line_10": "The gigs had leaned to their right; but Hunter and", "Line_11": "I pulled straight in, in the direction of the stockade", "Line_12": "upon the chart. The two who were left guarding their", "Line_13": "boats seemed in a bustle at our appearance;", "Line_14": "\"Lilli-", "Line_15": "bullero,\" stopped off, and I could see the pair discussing", "Line_16": "what they ought to do. Had they gone and told Silver,", "Line_17": "all might have turned out differently; but they had", "Line_18": "their orders, I suppose, and decided to sit quietly where", "Line_19": "they were and hark back again to \"Lillibullero.\"", "Line_20": "There was a slight bend in the coast, and I steered so", "Line_21": "as to put it between us; even before we landed we had", "Line_22": "thus lost sight of the gigs. I jumped out, and came as", "Line_23": "near running as I durst, with a big silk handkerchief", "Line_24": "under my hat for coolness' sake, and a brace of pistols", "Line_25": "ready primed for safety.", "Line_26": "I had not gone a hundred yards when I reached the", "Line_27": "stockade.", "Line_28": "This was how it was: a spring of clear water rose", "Line_29": "almost at the top of a knoll. Well, on the knoll, and", "Line_30": "enclosing the spring, they had clapped a stout log-house," }] }, "Lesson_0131": { "Name": "Lesson_0131", "Number": 131, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 16 - Page 130: How the Ship was Abandoned", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Fit to hold two score of people on a pinch, and loopholed", "Line_02": "for musketry on every side. All round this they had", "Line_03": "cleared a wide space, and then the thing was completed", "Line_04": "by a paling six feet high, without door or opening, too", "Line_05": "strong to pull down without time and labour, and too", "Line_06": "open to shelter the besiegers. The people in the log-", "Line_07": "house had them in every way; they stood quiet in", "Line_08": "shelter and shot the others like partridges. All they", "Line_09": "wanted was a good watch and food; for, short of a com-", "Line_10": "plete surprise, they might have held the place against a", "Line_11": "regiment.", "Line_12": "What particularly took my fancy was the spring.", "Line_13": "For, though we had a good enough place of it in the", "Line_14": "cabin of the Hispaniola, with plenty of arms and ammuni-", "Line_15": "tion, and things to eat, and excellent wines, there had", "Line_16": "been one thing overlooked—we had no water. I was", "Line_17": "thinking this over, when there came ringing over the", "Line_18": "island the cry of a man at the point of death. I was", "Line_19": "not new to violent death—I have served his Royal", "Line_20": "Highness the Duke of Cumberland, and got a wound", "Line_21": "myself at Fontenoy—but I know my pulse went dot", "Line_22": "and carry one. \"Jim Hawkins is gone,\" was my first", "Line_23": "thought.", "Line_24": "It is something to have been an old soldier, but", "Line_25": "more still to have been a doctor. There is no time to", "Line_26": "dilly-dally in our work. And so now I made up my", "Line_27": "mind instantly, and with no time lost returned to the", "Line_28": "shore, and jumped on board the jolly-boat.", "Line_29": "By good fortune Hunter pulled a good oar. We" }] }, "Lesson_0132": { "Name": "Lesson_0132", "Number": 132, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 16 - Page 131: How the Ship was Abandoned", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "made the water fly; and the boat was soon alongside,", "Line_02": "and I aboard the schooner.", "Line_03": "I found them all shaken, as was natural. The squire", "Line_04": "was sitting down, as white as a sheet, thinking of the", "Line_05": "harm he had led us to, the good soul! and one of the", "Line_06": "six forecastle hands was little better.", "Line_07": "\"There's a man,\" says Captain Smollett, nodding", "Line_08": "towards him, \"new to this work. He came nigh-hand", "Line_09": "fainting, doctor, when he heard the cry. Another touch", "Line_10": "of the rudder and that man would join us.\"", "Line_11": "I told my plan to the captain, and between us we", "Line_12": "settled on the details of its accomplishment.", "Line_13": "We put old Redruth in the gallery between the cabin", "Line_14": "and the forecastle, with three or four loaded muskets and", "Line_15": "a mattress for protection. Hunter brought the boat", "Line_16": "round under the stern-port, and Joyce and I set to work", "Line_17": "loading her with powder tins, muskets, bags of biscuits,", "Line_18": "kegs of pork, a cask of cognac, and my invaluable", "Line_19": "medicine chest.", "Line_20": "In the meantime, the squire and the captain stayed", "Line_21": "on deck, and the latter hailed the coxswain, who was the", "Line_22": "principal man aboard.", "Line_23": "\"Mr. Hands,\" he said, \"here are two of us with a", "Line_24": "brace of pistols each. If any one of you six make a", "Line_25": "signal of any description, that man's dead.\"", "Line_26": "They were a good deal taken aback; and, after a", "Line_27": "little consultation, one and all tumbled down the fore", "Line_28": "companion, thinking, no doubt, to take us on the rear.", "Line_29": "But when they saw Redruth waiting for them in the" }] }, "Lesson_0133": { "Name": "Lesson_0133", "Number": 133, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 16 - Page 132: How the Ship was Abandoned", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "sparred gallery, they went about ship at once, and a head", "Line_02": "popped out again on deck.", "Line_03": "\"Down, dog!\" cries the captain.", "Line_04": "And the head popped back again; and we heard no", "Line_05": "more, for the time, of these six very faint-hearted", "Line_06": "seamen.", "Line_07": "By this time, tumbling things in as they came, we", "Line_08": "had the jolly-boat loaded as much as we dared. Joyce", "Line_09": "and I got out through the stern-port, and we made for", "Line_10": "shore again, as fast as oars could take us.", "Line_11": "This second trip fairly aroused the watchers along", "Line_12": "shore. \"Lillibullero\" was dropped again; and just", "Line_13": "before we lost sight of them behind the little point, one", "Line_14": "of them whipped ashore and disappeared. I had half a", "Line_15": "mind to change my plan and destroy their boats, but I", "Line_16": "feared that Silver and the others might be close at", "Line_17": "hand, and all might very well be lost by trying for too", "Line_18": "much.", "Line_19": "We had soon touched land in the same place as", "Line_20": "before, and set to provision the block house. All three", "Line_21": "made the first journey, heavily laden, and tossed our", "Line_22": "stores over the palisade. Then, leaving Joyce to guard", "Line_23": "them—one man, to be sure, but with half a dozen", "Line_24": "muskets—Hunter and I returned to the jolly-boat, and", "Line_25": "loaded ourselves once more. So we proceeded without", "Line_26": "pausing to take breath, till the whole cargo was be-", "Line_27": "stowed, when the two servants took up their position", "Line_28": "in the block house, and I, with all my power, sculled", "Line_29": "back to the Hispaniola." }] }, "Lesson_0134": { "Name": "Lesson_0134", "Number": 134, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 16 - Page 133: How the Ship was Abandoned", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "That we should have risked a second boat load seems", "Line_02": "more daring than it really was. They had the", "Line_03": "advantage of numbers, of course, but we had the", "Line_04": "advantage of arms. Not one of the men ashore had a", "Line_05": "musket, and before they could get within range for", "Line_06": "pistol shooting, we flattered ourselves we should", "Line_07": "be able to give a good account of a half-dozen at", "Line_08": "least.", "Line_09": "The squire was waiting for me at the stern window,", "Line_10": "all his faintness gone from him. He caught the painter", "Line_11": "and made it fast, and we fell to loading the boat for our", "Line_12": "very lives. Pork, powder, and biscuit was the cargo,", "Line_13": "with only a musket and a cutlass apiece for the squire", "Line_14": "and me and Redruth and the captain. The rest of the", "Line_15": "arms and powder we dropped overboard in two fathoms", "Line_16": "and a half of water, so that we could see the bright", "Line_17": "steel shining far below us in the sun, on the clean,", "Line_18": "sandy bottom.", "Line_19": "By this time the tide was beginning to ebb, and the", "Line_20": "ship was swinging round to her anchor. Voices were", "Line_21": "heard faintly halloaing in the direction of the two gigs;", "Line_22": "and though this reassured us for Joyce and Hunter,", "Line_23": "who were well to the eastward, it warned our party", "Line_24": "to be off.", "Line_25": "Redruth retreated from his place in the gallery, and", "Line_26": "dropped into the boat, which we then brought round to", "Line_27": "the ship's counter, to be handier for Captain Smollett.", "Line_28": "\"Now men,\" said he, \"do you hear me?\"", "Line_29": "There was no answer from the forecastle." }] }, "Lesson_0135": { "Name": "Lesson_0135", "Number": 135, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 16 - Page 134: How the Ship was Abandoned", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "\"It's to you, Abraham Gray—it's to you I am", "Line_02": "speaking.\"", "Line_03": "Still no reply.", "Line_04": "\"Gray,\" resumed Mr. Smollett, a little louder, \"I am", "Line_05": "leaving this ship, and I order you to follow your captain.", "Line_06": "I know you are a good man at bottom, and I daresay", "Line_07": "not one of the lot of you's as bad as he makes out. I", "Line_08": "have my watch here in my hand; I give you thirty", "Line_09": "seconds to join me in.\"", "Line_10": "There was a pause.", "Line_11": "\"Come, my fine fellow,\" continued the captain,", "Line_12": "\"don't hang so long in stays. I'm risking my life,", "Line_13": "and the lives of these good gentlemen every second.\"", "Line_14": "There was a sudden scuffle, a sound of blows, and", "Line_15": "out burst Abraham Gray with a knife-cut on the side of", "Line_16": "the cheek, and came running to the captain, like a dog to", "Line_17": "the whistle.", "Line_18": "\"I'm with you, sir,\" said he.", "Line_19": "And the next moment he and the captain had", "Line_20": "dropped aboard of us, and we had shoved off and given", "Line_21": "way.", "Line_22": "We were clear out of the ship; but not yet ashore in", "Line_23": "our stockade." }] }, "Lesson_0136": { "Name": "Lesson_0136", "Number": 136, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 17 - Page 135: The Jolly-Boat's Last Trip", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Chapter 17", "Line_02": "Narrative Continued by the Doctor:", "Line_03": "The Jolly-Boat's Last Trip", "Line_04": "This fifth trip was quite different from any of the others.", "Line_05": "In the first place, the little gallipot of a boat that we", "Line_06": "were in was gravely overloaded. Five grown men, and", "Line_07": "three of them—Trelawney, Redruth, and the captain—", "Line_08": "over six feet high, was already more than she was meant", "Line_09": "to carry. Add to that the powder, pork, and bread-bags.", "Line_10": "The gunwale was lipping astern. Several times we", "Line_11": "shipped a little water, and my breeches and the tails of", "Line_12": "my coat were all soaking wet before we had gone a", "Line_13": "hundred yards.", "Line_14": "The captain made us trim the boat, and we got her", "Line_15": "to lie a little more evenly. All the same, we were afraid", "Line_16": "to breathe.", "Line_17": "In the second place, the ebb was now making—a", "Line_18": "strong rippling current running westward through the", "Line_19": "basin, and then southward and seaward down the straits", "Line_20": "by which we had entered in the morning. Even the", "Line_21": "ripples were a danger to our overloaded craft; but the", "Line_22": "worst of it was that we were swept out of our true", "Line_23": "course, and away from our proper landing-place behind" }] }, "Lesson_0137": { "Name": "Lesson_0137", "Number": 137, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 17 - Page 136: The Jolly-Boat's Last Trip", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "the point. If we let the current have its way we should", "Line_02": "come ashore beside the gigs, where the pirates might", "Line_03": "appear at any moment.", "Line_04": "\"I cannot keep her head for the stockade, sir,\" said", "Line_05": "I to the captain. I was steering, while he and Redruth,", "Line_06": "two fresh men, were at the oars. \"The tide keeps", "Line_07": "washing her down. Could you pull a little stronger?\"", "Line_08": "\"Not without swamping the boat,\" said he. \"You", "Line_09": "must bear up, sir, if you please—bear up until you see", "Line_10": "you're gaining.\"", "Line_11": "I tried, and found by experiment that the tide kept", "Line_12": "sweeping us westward until I had laid her head due", "Line_13": "east, or just about right angles to the way we ought to", "Line_14": "go.", "Line_15": "\"We'll never get ashore at this rate,\" said I.", "Line_16": "\"If it's the only course that we can lie, sir, we must", "Line_17": "even lie it,\" returned the captain. \"We must keep up-", "Line_18": "stream. You see, sir,\" he went on, \"if once we dropped", "Line_19": "to leeward of the landing-place, it's hard to say where", "Line_20": "we should get ashore, besides the chance of being", "Line_21": "boarded by the gigs; whereas, the way we go the", "Line_22": "current must slacken, and then we can dodge back", "Line_23": "along the shore.\"", "Line_24": "\"The current's less a'ready, sir,\" said the man Gray,", "Line_25": "who was sitting in the fore-sheets; \"you can ease her", "Line_26": "off a bit.\"", "Line_27": "\"Thank you, my man,\" said I, quite as if nothing", "Line_28": "had happened; for we had all quietly made up our", "Line_29": "minds to treat him like one of ourselves." }] }, "Lesson_0138": { "Name": "Lesson_0138", "Number": 138, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 17 - Page 137: The Jolly-Boat's Last Trip", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Suddenly the captain spoke up again, and I thought", "Line_02": "his voice was a little changed.", "Line_03": "\"The gun!\" said he.", "Line_04": "\"I have thought of that,\" said I, for I made sure", "Line_05": "he was thinking of a bombardment of the fort. \"They", "Line_06": "could never get the gun ashore, and if they did, they", "Line_07": "could never haul it through the woods.\"", "Line_08": "\"Look astern, doctor,\" replied the captain.", "Line_09": "We had entirely forgotten the long nine; and", "Line_10": "there, to our horror, were the five rogues busy about", "Line_11": "her, getting off her jacket, as they called the stout", "Line_12": "tarpaulin cover under which she sailed. Not only", "Line_13": "that, but it flashed into my mind at the same", "Line_14": "moment that the round shot and the powder for the", "Line_15": "gun had been left behind, and a stroke with an axe", "Line_16": "would put it all into the possession of the evil ones", "Line_17": "abroad.", "Line_18": "\"Israel was Flint's gunner,\" said Gray, hoarsely.", "Line_19": "At any risk, we put the boat's head direct for the", "Line_20": "landing-place. By this time we had got so far out of", "Line_21": "the run of the current that we kept steerage way even", "Line_22": "at our necessarily gentle rate of rowing, and I could", "Line_23": "keep her steady for the goal. But the worst of it was,", "Line_24": "that with the course I now held, we turned our broadside", "Line_25": "instead of our stern to the Hispaniola, and offered a", "Line_26": "target like a barn door.", "Line_27": "I could hear, as well as see, that brandy-faced rascal,", "Line_28": "Israel Hands, plumping down a round-shot on the", "Line_29": "deck." }] }, "Lesson_0139": { "Name": "Lesson_0139", "Number": 139, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 17 - Page 138: The Jolly-Boat's Last Trip", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "\"Who's the best shot?\" asked the captain.", "Line_02": "\"Mr. Trelawney, out and away,\" said I.", "Line_03": "\"Mr. Trelawney, will you please pick me off one", "Line_04": "of these men, sir? Hands, if possible,\" said the", "Line_05": "captain.", "Line_06": "Trelawney was as cool as steel. He looked to the", "Line_07": "priming of his gun.", "Line_08": "\"Now,\" cried the captain, \"easy with that gun, sir,", "Line_09": "or you'll swamp the boat. All hands stand by to trim", "Line_10": "her when he aims.\"", "Line_11": "The squire raised his gun, the rowing ceased, and", "Line_12": "we leaned over to the other side to keep the balance,", "Line_13": "and all was so nicely contrived that we did not ship a", "Line_14": "drop.", "Line_15": "They had the gun, by this time, slewed round upon", "Line_16": "the swivel, and Hands, who was at the muzzle with the", "Line_17": "rammer, was, in consequence, the most exposed. How-", "Line_18": "ever, we had no luck; for just as Trelawney fired, down", "Line_19": "he stooped, the ball whistled over him, and it was one", "Line_20": "of the other four who fell.", "Line_21": "The cry he gave was echoed, not only by his companions", "Line_22": "on board, but by a great number of voices from", "Line_23": "the shore, and looking in that direction I saw the other", "Line_24": "pirates trooping out from among the trees and tumbling", "Line_25": "into their places in the boats.", "Line_26": "\"Here come the gigs, sir,\" said I.", "Line_27": "\"Give way then,\" cried the captain. \"We mustn't", "Line_28": "mind if we swamp her now. If we can't get ashore,", "Line_29": "all's up.\"" }] }, "Lesson_0140": { "Name": "Lesson_0140", "Number": 140, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 17 - Page 139: The Jolly-Boat's Last Trip", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "\"Only one of the gigs is being manned, sir,\" I", "Line_02": "added, \"the crew of the other most likely going round", "Line_03": "by shore to cut us off.\"", "Line_04": "\"They'll have a hot run, sir,\" returned the captain.", "Line_05": "\"Jack ashore, you know. It's not them I mind; it's", "Line_06": "the round-shot. Carpet bowls! My lady's maid", "Line_07": "couldn't miss. Tell us, squire, when you see the", "Line_08": "match, and we'll hold water.\"", "Line_09": "In the meanwhile we had been making headway at", "Line_10": "a good pace for a boat so overloaded, and we had shipped", "Line_11": "but little water in the process. We were now close in;", "Line_12": "thirty or forty strokes and we should beach her; for the", "Line_13": "ebb had already disclosed a narrow belt of sand below", "Line_14": "the clustering trees. The gig was no longer to be", "Line_15": "feared; the little point had already concealed it from", "Line_16": "our eyes. The ebb-tide, which had so cruelly de-", "Line_17": "layed us, was now making reparation, and delaying", "Line_18": "our assailants. The one source of danger was the", "Line_19": "gun.", "Line_20": "\"If I durst,\" said the captain, \"I'd stop and pick", "Line_21": "off another man.\"", "Line_22": "But it was plain that they meant nothing should", "Line_23": "delay their shot. They had never so much as looked at", "Line_24": "their fallen comrade, though he was not dead, and I", "Line_25": "could see him trying to crawl away.", "Line_26": "\"Ready!\" cried the squire.", "Line_27": "\"Hold!\" cried the captain, quick as an echo.", "Line_28": "And he and Redruth backed with a great heave that", "Line_29": "sent her stern bodily under water. The report fell" }] }, "Lesson_0141": { "Name": "Lesson_0141", "Number": 141, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 17 - Page 140: The Jolly-Boat's Last Trip", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "in at the same instant of time. This was the first that", "Line_02": "Jim heard, the sound of the squire's shot not having", "Line_03": "reached him. Where the ball passed, not one of us", "Line_04": "precisely knew; but I fancy it must have been over our", "Line_05": "heads, and that the wind of it may have contributed to", "Line_06": "our disaster.", "Line_07": "At any rate, the boat sank by the stern, quite", "Line_08": "gently, in three feet of water, leaving the captain and", "Line_09": "myself, facing each other, on our feet. The other three", "Line_10": "took complete headers, and came up again, drenched", "Line_11": "and bubbling.", "Line_12": "So far there was no great harm. No lives were lost,", "Line_13": "and we could wade ashore in safety. But there were all", "Line_14": "our stores at the bottom, and, to make things worse,", "Line_15": "only two guns out of five remained in a state for", "Line_16": "service. Mine I had snatched from my knees and", "Line_17": "held over my head, by a sort of instinct. As for", "Line_18": "the captain, he had carried his over his shoulder", "Line_19": "by a bandoleer, and, like a wise man, lock upper-", "Line_20": "most. The other three had gone down with the", "Line_21": "boat.", "Line_22": "To add to our concern, we heard voices already", "Line_23": "drawing near us in the woods along shore; and we had", "Line_24": "not only the danger of being cut off from the stockade", "Line_25": "in our half-crippled state, but the fear before us", "Line_26": "whether, if Hunter and Joyce were attacked by half", "Line_27": "a dozen, they would have the sense and conduct to stand", "Line_28": "firm. Hunter was steady, that we knew; Joyce was a", "Line_29": "doubtful case—a pleasant, polite man for a valet, and" }] }, "Lesson_0142": { "Name": "Lesson_0142", "Number": 142, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 17 - Page 141: The Jolly-Boat's Last Trip", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "to brush one's clothes, but not entirely fitted for a man", "Line_02": "of war.", "Line_03": "With all this in our minds, we waded ashore as fast", "Line_04": "as we could, leaving behind us the poor jolly-boat, and", "Line_05": "a good half of all our powder and provisions." }] }, "Lesson_0143": { "Name": "Lesson_0143", "Number": 143, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 18 - Page 142: End of the First Day's Fighting", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Chapter 18", "Line_02": "Narrative Continued by the Doctor:", "Line_03": "End of the First Day's Fighting", "Line_04": "We made our best speed across the strip of wood that", "Line_05": "now divided us from the stockade; and at every step", "Line_06": "we took the voices of the buccaneers rang nearer. Soon", "Line_07": "we could hear their footfalls as they ran, and the", "Line_08": "cracking of the branches as they breasted across a bit", "Line_09": "of thicket.", "Line_10": "I began to see we should have a brush for it in", "Line_11": "earnest, and looked to my priming.", "Line_12": "\"Captain,\" said I, \"Trelawney is the dead shot.", "Line_13": "Give him your gun; his own is useless.\"", "Line_14": "They exchanged guns, and Trelawney, silent and", "Line_15": "cool as he had been since the beginning of the bustle,", "Line_16": "hung a moment on his heel to see that all was fit for", "Line_17": "service. At the same time, observing Gray to be", "Line_18": "unarmed, I handed him my cutlass. It did all our", "Line_19": "hearts good to see him spit in his hand, knit his brows,", "Line_20": "and make the blade sing through the air. It was plain", "Line_21": "from every line of his body that our new hand was", "Line_22": "worth his salt.", "Line_23": "Forty paces farther we came to the edge of the wood" }] }, "Lesson_0144": { "Name": "Lesson_0144", "Number": 144, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 18 - Page 143: End of the First Day's Fighting", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "and saw the stockade in front of us. We struck the", "Line_02": "enclosure about the middle of the south side, and,", "Line_03": "almost at the same time, seven mutineers—Job Ander-", "Line_04": "son, the boatswain, at their head—appeared in full cry", "Line_05": "at the southwestern corner.", "Line_06": "They paused, as if taken aback; and before they", "Line_07": "recovered, not only the squire and I, but Hunter and", "Line_08": "Joyce from the block house, had time to fire. The", "Line_09": "four shots came in rather a scattering volley; but they", "Line_10": "did the business: one of the enemy actually fell, and", "Line_11": "the rest, without hesitation, turned and plunged into", "Line_12": "the trees.", "Line_13": "After reloading, we walked down the outside of the", "Line_14": "palisade to see to the fallen enemy. He was stone dead", "Line_15": "—shot through the heart.", "Line_16": "We began to rejoice over our good success, when", "Line_17": "just at that moment a pistol cracked in the bush, a ball", "Line_18": "whistled close past my ear, and poor Tom Redruth", "Line_19": "stumbled and fell his length on the ground. Both the", "Line_20": "squire and I returned the shot; but as we had nothing", "Line_21": "to aim at, it is probable we only wasted powder. Then", "Line_22": "we reloaded, and turned our attention to poor Tom.", "Line_23": "The captain and Gray were already examining him;", "Line_24": "and I saw with half an eye that all was over.", "Line_25": "I believe the readiness of our return volley had scat-", "Line_26": "tered the mutineers once more, for we were suffered", "Line_27": "without further molestation to get the poor old game-", "Line_28": "keeper hoisted over the stockade, and carried, groaning", "Line_29": "and bleeding, into the log-house." }] }, "Lesson_0145": { "Name": "Lesson_0145", "Number": 145, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 18 - Page 144: End of the First Day's Fighting", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Poor old fellow, he had not uttered one word of surprise,", "Line_02": "complaint, fear, or even acquiescence, from the", "Line_03": "very beginning of our troubles till now, when we had", "Line_04": "laid him down in the log-house to die. He had lain", "Line_05": "like a Trojan behind his mattress in the gallery; he had", "Line_06": "followed every order silently, doggedly, and well; he was", "Line_07": "the oldest of our party by a score of years; and now,", "Line_08": "sullen, old, serviceable servant, it was he that was to", "Line_09": "die.", "Line_10": "The squire dropped down beside him on his knees", "Line_11": "and kissed his hand, crying like a child.", "Line_12": "\"Be I going, doctor?\" he asked.", "Line_13": "\"Tom, my man,\" said I, \"you're going home.\"", "Line_14": "\"I wish I had had a lick at them with the gun", "Line_15": "first,\" he replied.", "Line_16": "\"Tom,\" said the squire, \"say you forgive me, won't", "Line_17": "you?\"", "Line_18": "\"Would that be respectful like, from me to you,", "Line_19": "squire?\" was the answer. \"Howsoever, so be it,", "Line_20": "amen!\"", "Line_21": "After a little while of silence, he said he thought", "Line_22": "somebody might read a prayer. \"It's the custom, sir,\"", "Line_23": "he added, apologetically. And not long after, without", "Line_24": "another word, he passed away.", "Line_25": "In the meantime the captain, whom I had observed", "Line_26": "to be wonderfully swollen about the chest and pockets,", "Line_27": "had turned out a great many various stores—the British", "Line_28": "colours, a Bible, a coil of stoutish rope, pen, ink, the", "Line_29": "log-book, and pounds of tobacco. He had found a" }] }, "Lesson_0146": { "Name": "Lesson_0146", "Number": 146, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 18 - Page 145: End of the First Day's Fighting", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "longish fir-tree lying felled and trimmed in the enclosure,", "Line_02": "and, with the help of Hunter, he had set it up at the", "Line_03": "corner of the log-house where the trunks crossed and", "Line_04": "made an angle. Then, climbing on the roof, he had", "Line_05": "with his own hand bent and run up the colours.", "Line_06": "This seemed mightily to relieve him. He re-entered", "Line_07": "the log-house, and set about counting up the stores, as", "Line_08": "if nothing else existed. But he had an eye on Tom's", "Line_09": "passage for all that; and as soon as all was over, came", "Line_10": "forward with another flag, and reverently spread it on", "Line_11": "the body.", "Line_12": "\"Don't you take on, sir,\" he said, shaking the", "Line_13": "squire's hand. \"All's well with him; no fear for", "Line_14": "a hand that's been shot down in his duty to captain", "Line_15": "and owner. It mayn't be good divinity, but it's a", "Line_16": "fact.\"", "Line_17": "Then he pulled me aside.", "Line_18": "\"Dr. Livesey,\" he said, \"in how many weeks do", "Line_19": "you and squire expect the consort?\"", "Line_20": "I told him it was a question, not of weeks, but", "Line_21": "of months; that if we were not back by the end of", "Line_22": "August, Blandly was to send to find us; but neither", "Line_23": "sooner nor later. \"You can calculate for yourself,\"", "Line_24": "I said.", "Line_25": "\"Why, yes,\" returned the captain, scratching his", "Line_26": "head, \"and making a large allowance, sir, for all", "Line_27": "the gifts of Providence, I should say we were pretty", "Line_28": "close hauled.\"", "Line_29": "\"How do you mean?\" I asked." }] }, "Lesson_0147": { "Name": "Lesson_0147", "Number": 147, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 18 - Page 146: End of the First Day's Fighting", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "\"It's a pity, sir, we lost that second load. That's", "Line_02": "what I mean,\" replied the captain. \"As for powder", "Line_03": "and shot, we'll do. But the rations are short, very", "Line_04": "short—so short, Doctor Livesey, that we're, perhaps,", "Line_05": "as well without that extra mouth.\"", "Line_06": "And he pointed to the dead body under the flag.", "Line_07": "Just then, with a roar and a whistle, a round shot", "Line_08": "passed high above the roof of the log-house and plumped", "Line_09": "far beyond us in the wood.", "Line_10": "\"Oho!\" said the captain. \"Blaze away! You've", "Line_11": "little enough powder already, my lads.\"", "Line_12": "At the second trial, the aim was better, and the ball", "Line_13": "descended inside the stockade, scattering a cloud of sand,", "Line_14": "but doing no further damage.", "Line_15": "\"Captain,\" said the squire, \"the house is quite", "Line_16": "invisible from the ship. It must be the flag they are", "Line_17": "aiming at. Would it not be wiser to take it in?\"", "Line_18": "\"Strike my colours!\" cried the captain. \"No, sir,", "Line_19": "not I;\" and, as soon as he had said the words, I think", "Line_20": "we all agreed with him. For it was not only a piece of", "Line_21": "stout, seamanly, good feeling; it was good policy", "Line_22": "besides, and showed our enemies that we despised", "Line_23": "their cannonade.", "Line_24": "All through the evening they kept thundering", "Line_25": "away. Ball after ball flew over or fell short, or kicked", "Line_26": "up the sand in the enclosure; but they had to fire so", "Line_27": "high that the shot fell dead and buried itself in the", "Line_28": "soft sand. We had no ricochet to fear; and though", "Line_29": "one popped in through the roof of the log-house and out" }] }, "Lesson_0148": { "Name": "Lesson_0148", "Number": 148, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 18 - Page 147: End of the First Day's Fighting", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "again through the floor, we soon got used to that sort of", "Line_02": "horse-play, and minded it no more than cricket.", "Line_03": "\"There is one thing good about all this,\" observed", "Line_04": "the captain: \"the wood in front of us is likely", "Line_05": "clear. The ebb has made a good while; our stores", "Line_06": "should be uncovered. Volunteers to go and bring in", "Line_07": "pork.\"", "Line_08": "Gray and Hunter were the first to come forward.", "Line_09": "Well armed, they stole out of the stockade; but it", "Line_10": "proved a useless mission. The mutineers were bolder", "Line_11": "than we fancied, or they put more trust in Israel's", "Line_12": "gunnery. For four or five of them were busy carrying", "Line_13": "off our stores, and wading out with them to one of", "Line_14": "the gigs that lay close by, pulling an oar or so to", "Line_15": "hold her steady against the current. Silver was in", "Line_16": "the stern-sheets in command; and every man of them", "Line_17": "was now provided with a musket from some secret", "Line_18": "magazine of their own.", "Line_19": "The captain sat down to his log, and here is the", "Line_20": "beginning of the entry:—", "Line_21": "\"Alexander Smollett, master; David Livesey,", "Line_22": "ship's doctor; Abraham Gray, carpenter's mate; John", "Line_23": "Trelawney, owner; John Hunter and Richard Joyce,", "Line_24": "owner's servants, landsmen—being all that is left", "Line_25": "faithful of the ship's company—with stores for ten", "Line_26": "days at short rations, came ashore this day, and flew", "Line_27": "British colours on the log-house in Treasure Island.", "Line_28": "Thomas Redruth, owner's servant, landsman, shot by", "Line_29": "the mutineers; James Hawkins, cabin-boy\"" }] }, "Lesson_0149": { "Name": "Lesson_0149", "Number": 149, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 18 - Page 148: End of the First Day's Fighting", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "And at the same time I was wondering over poor", "Line_02": "Jim Hawkins's fate.", "Line_03": "A hail on the land side.", "Line_04": "\"Somebody hailing us,\" said Hunter, who was on", "Line_05": "guard.", "Line_06": "\"Doctor! Squire! Captain! Hullo, Hunter, is that", "Line_07": "you?\" came the cries.", "Line_08": "And I ran to the door in time to see Jim Hawkins,", "Line_09": "safe and sound, come climbing over the stockade." }] }, "Lesson_0150": { "Name": "Lesson_0150", "Number": 150, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 19 - Page 149: The Garrison in the Stockade", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Chapter 19", "Line_02": "Narrative Resumed by Jim Hawkins:", "Line_03": "The Garrison in the Stockade", "Line_04": "As soon as Ben Gunn saw the colours he came to a halt,", "Line_05": "stopped me by the arm, and sat down.", "Line_06": "\"Now,\" said he, \"there's your friends, sure", "Line_07": "enough.\"", "Line_08": "\"Far more likely it's the mutineers,\" I answered.", "Line_09": "\"That!\" he cried. \"Why, in a place like this,", "Line_10": "where nobody puts in but gentlemen of fortune, Silver", "Line_11": "would fly the Jolly Roger, you don't make no doubt of", "Line_12": "that. No; that's your friends. There's been blows,", "Line_13": "too, and I reckon your friends has had the best of it;", "Line_14": "and here they are ashore in the old stockade, as was", "Line_15": "made years and years ago by Flint. Ah, he was the man", "Line_16": "to have a headpiece, was Flint! Barring rum, his match", "Line_17": "were never seen. He were afraid of none, not he; on'y", "Line_18": "Silver—Silver was that genteel.\"", "Line_19": "\"Well,\" said I, \"that may be so, and so be it; all", "Line_20": "the more reason that I should hurry on and join my", "Line_21": "friends.\"", "Line_22": "\"Nay, mate,\" returned Ben, \"not you. You're a", "Line_23": "good boy, or I'm mistook; but you're on'y a boy, all" }] }, "Lesson_0151": { "Name": "Lesson_0151", "Number": 151, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 19 - Page 150: The Garrison in the Stockade", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "told. Now, Ben Gunn is fly. Rum wouldn't bring", "Line_02": "me there, where you're going—not rum wouldn't, till I", "Line_03": "see your born gen'leman, and gets it on his word of", "Line_04": "honour. And you won't forget my words: 'A precious", "Line_05": "sight (that's what you'll say), a precious sight more", "Line_06": "confidence'—and then nips him.\"", "Line_07": "And he pinched me the third time with the same air", "Line_08": "of cleverness.", "Line_09": "\"And when Ben Gunn is wanted, you know where", "Line_10": "to find him, Jim. Just wheer you found him to-day.", "Line_11": "And him that comes is to have a white thing in his", "Line_12": "hand: and he's to come alone. Oh! and you'll say", "Line_13": "this: \"Ben Gunn,\" says you, \"has reasons of his", "Line_14": "own.\"", "Line_15": "\"Well,\" said I, \"I believe I understand. You have", "Line_16": "something to propose, and you wish to see the squire or", "Line_17": "the doctor; and you're to be found where I found you.", "Line_18": "Is that all?\"", "Line_19": "\"And when? says you,\" he added. \"Why, from", "Line_20": "about noon observation to about six bells.\"", "Line_21": "\"Good,\" said I, \"and now may I go?\"", "Line_22": "\"You won't forget?\" he inquired, anxiously.", "Line_23": "\"Precious sight, and reasons of his own, says you.", "Line_24": "Reasons of his own; that's the mainstay; as between", "Line_25": "man and man. Well, then'—still holding me—'I", "Line_26": "reckon you can go, Jim. And, Jim, if you was to see", "Line_27": "Silver, you wouldn't go for to sell Ben Gunn? Wild", "Line_28": "horses wouldn't draw it from you? No, says", "Line_29": "you. And if them pirates camp ashore, Jim, what" }] }, "Lesson_0152": { "Name": "Lesson_0152", "Number": 152, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 19 - Page 151: The Garrison in the Stockade", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "\"would you say but there'll be widders in the morn-", "Line_02": "ing?\"", "Line_03": "Here he was interrupted by a loud report, and a", "Line_04": "cannon ball came tearing through the trees and pitched", "Line_05": "in the sand, not a hundred yards from where we two", "Line_06": "were talking. The next moment each of us had taken", "Line_07": "to his heels in a different direction.", "Line_08": "For a good hour to come frequent reports shook the", "Line_09": "island, and balls kept crashing through the woods. I", "Line_10": "moved from hiding-place to hiding-place, always pursued,", "Line_11": "or so it seemed to me, by these terrifying missiles. But", "Line_12": "towards the end of the bombardment, though still I durst", "Line_13": "not venture in the direction of the stockade, where the", "Line_14": "balls fell oftenest, I had begun, in a manner, to pluck up", "Line_15": "my heart again; and after a long detour to the east,", "Line_16": "crept down among the shore-side trees.", "Line_17": "The sun had just set, the sea breeze was rustling", "Line_18": "and tumbling in the woods, and ruffling the grey", "Line_19": "surface of the anchorage; the tide, too, was far", "Line_20": "out, and great tracts of sand lay uncovered; the air,", "Line_21": "after the heat of the day, chilled me through my", "Line_22": "jacket.", "Line_23": "The Hispaniola still lay where she had anchored;", "Line_24": "but, sure enough, there was the Jolly Roger—the black", "Line_25": "flag of piracy—flying from her peak. Even as I looked,", "Line_26": "there came another red flash and another report, that", "Line_27": "sent the echoes clattering, and one more round shot", "Line_28": "whistled through the air. It was the last of the", "Line_29": "cannonade." }] }, "Lesson_0153": { "Name": "Lesson_0153", "Number": 153, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 19 - Page 152: The Garrison in the Stockade", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "I lay for some time, watching the bustle which suc-", "Line_02": "ceeded the attack. Men were demolishing something", "Line_03": "with axes on the beach near the stockade; the poor", "Line_04": "jolly-boat, I afterwards discovered. Away, near the", "Line_05": "mouth of the river, a great fire was glowing among the", "Line_06": "trees, and between that point and the ship one of the", "Line_07": "gigs kept coming and going, the men, whom I had seen", "Line_08": "so gloomy, shouting at the oars like children. But", "Line_09": "there was a sound in their voices which suggested", "Line_10": "rum.", "Line_11": "At length I thought I might return towards the", "Line_12": "stockade. I was pretty far down on the low, sandy spit", "Line_13": "that incloses the anchorage to the east, and is joined at", "Line_14": "half-water to Skeleton Island; and now, as I rose to my", "Line_15": "feet, I saw, some distance further down the spit, and", "Line_16": "rising from among low bushes, an isolated rock, pretty", "Line_17": "high, and peculiarly white in colour. It occurred to me", "Line_18": "that this might be the white rock of which Ben Gunn", "Line_19": "had spoken, and that some day or other a boat might", "Line_20": "be wanted, and I should know where to look for", "Line_21": "one.", "Line_22": "Then I skirted among the woods until I had", "Line_23": "regained the rear, or shoreward side, of the stockade,", "Line_24": "and was soon warmly welcomed by the faithful", "Line_25": "party.", "Line_26": "I had soon told my story, and began to look about", "Line_27": "me. The log-house was made of unsquared trunks of", "Line_28": "pine—roof, walls, and floor. The latter stood in several", "Line_29": "places as much as a foot or a foot and a half above the" }] }, "Lesson_0154": { "Name": "Lesson_0154", "Number": 154, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 19 - Page 153: The Garrison in the Stockade", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "surface of the sand. There was a porch at the door, and", "Line_02": "under this porch the little spring welled up into an", "Line_03": "artificial basin of a rather odd kind—no other than a", "Line_04": "great ship's kettle of iron, with the bottom knocked out,", "Line_05": "and sunk 'to her bearings,\" as the captain said, among", "Line_06": "the sand.", "Line_07": "Little had been left beside the framework of the", "Line_08": "house; but in one corner there was a stone slab laid", "Line_09": "down by way of hearth, and an old rusty iron basket to", "Line_10": "contain the fire.", "Line_11": "The slopes of the knoll and all the inside of the", "Line_12": "stockade had been cleared of timber to build the house,", "Line_13": "and we could see by the stumps what a fine and lofty", "Line_14": "grove had been destroyed. Most of the soil had been", "Line_15": "washed away or buried in drift after the removal of the", "Line_16": "trees; only where the streamlet ran down from the", "Line_17": "kettle a thick bed of moss and some ferns and little", "Line_18": "creeping bushes were still green among the sand. Very", "Line_19": "close around the stockade—too close for defence, they", "Line_20": "said—the wood still flourished high and dense, all of fir", "Line_21": "on the land side, but towards the sea with a large", "Line_22": "admixture of live-oaks.", "Line_23": "The cold evening breeze, of which I have spoken,", "Line_24": "whistled through every chink of the rude building, and", "Line_25": "sprinkled the floor with a continual rain of fine sand.", "Line_26": "There was sand in our eyes, sand in our teeth, sand in", "Line_27": "our suppers, sand dancing in the spring at the bottom of", "Line_28": "the kettle, for all the world like porridge beginning to", "Line_29": "boil. Our chimney was a square hole in the roof; it" }] }, "Lesson_0155": { "Name": "Lesson_0155", "Number": 155, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 19 - Page 154: The Garrison in the Stockade", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "was but a little part of the smoke that found its way", "Line_02": "out, and the rest eddied about the house, and kept us", "Line_03": "coughing and piping the eye.", "Line_04": "Add to this that Gray, the new man, had his face", "Line_05": "tied up in a bandage for a cut he had got in breaking", "Line_06": "away from the mutineers; and that poor old Tom", "Line_07": "Redruth, still unburied, lay along the wall, stiff and", "Line_08": "stark, under the Union Jack.", "Line_09": "If we had been allowed to sit idle, we should all", "Line_10": "have fallen in the blues; but Captain Smollett was never", "Line_11": "the man for that. All hands were called up before him,", "Line_12": "and he divided us into watches. The doctor, and Gray,", "Line_13": "and I, for one; the squire, Hunter, and Joyce, upon the", "Line_14": "other. Tired though we all were, two were sent out", "Line_15": "for firewood; two more were set to dig a grave for", "Line_16": "Redruth; the doctor was named cook; I was put sentry", "Line_17": "at the door; and the captain himself went from one to", "Line_18": "another, keeping up our spirits and lending a hand", "Line_19": "wherever it was wanted.", "Line_20": "From time to time the doctor came to the door", "Line_21": "for a little air and to rest his eyes, which were almost", "Line_22": "smoked out of his head; and whenever he did so, he had", "Line_23": "a word for me.", "Line_24": "\"That man Smollett,\" he said once, \"is a better", "Line_25": "man than I am. And when I say that it means a", "Line_26": "deal, Jim.\"", "Line_27": "Another time he came and was silent for a while.", "Line_28": "Then he put his head on one side, and looked at", "Line_29": "me." }] }, "Lesson_0156": { "Name": "Lesson_0156", "Number": 156, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 19 - Page 155: The Garrison in the Stockade", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "\"Is this Ben Gunn a man?\" he asked.", "Line_02": "\"I do not know, sir,\" said I. \"I am not very sure", "Line_03": "whether he's sane.\"", "Line_04": "\"If there's any doubt about the matter, he is,\"", "Line_05": "returned the doctor. \"A man who has been three", "Line_06": "years biting his nails on a desert island, Jim, can't", "Line_07": "expect to appear as sane as you or me. It doesn't", "Line_08": "lie in human nature. Was it cheese you said he had", "Line_09": "a fancy for?\"", "Line_10": "\"Yes, sir, cheese,\" I answered.", "Line_11": "\"Well, Jim,\" says he, \"just see the good that", "Line_12": "comes of being dainty in your food. You've seen my", "Line_13": "snuff-box, haven't you? And you never saw me", "Line_14": "take snuff; the reason being that in my snuff-box", "Line_15": "I carry a piece of Parmesan cheese—a cheese made", "Line_16": "in Italy, very nutritious. Well, that's for Ben", "Line_17": "Gunn!\"", "Line_18": "Before supper was eaten we buried old Tom in", "Line_19": "the sand, and stood round him for a while bare-headed", "Line_20": "in the breeze. A good deal of firewood had been", "Line_21": "got in, but not enough for the captain's fancy; and", "Line_22": "he shook his head over it, and told us we \"must get", "Line_23": "back to this to-morrow rather livelier.\" Then, when", "Line_24": "we had eaten our pork, and each had a good stiff", "Line_25": "glass of brandy grog, the three chiefs got together", "Line_26": "in a corner to discuss our prospects.", "Line_27": "It appears they were at their wit's end what to", "Line_28": "do, the stores being so low that we must have been", "Line_29": "starved into surrender long before help came. But" }] }, "Lesson_0157": { "Name": "Lesson_0157", "Number": 157, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 19 - Page 156: The Garrison in the Stockade", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "our best hope, it was decided, was to kill off the", "Line_02": "buccaneers until they either hauled down their flag", "Line_03": "or ran away with the Hispaniola. From nineteen", "Line_04": "they were already reduced to fifteen, two others", "Line_05": "were wounded, and one, at least—the man shot", "Line_06": "beside the gun—severely wounded, if he were not", "Line_07": "dead. Every time we had a crack at them, we were", "Line_08": "to take it, saving our own lives, with the extremest", "Line_09": "care. And, besides that, we had two able allies—rum", "Line_10": "and the climate.", "Line_11": "As for the first, though we were about half a mile", "Line_12": "away, we could hear them roaring and singing late", "Line_13": "into the night; and as for the second, the doctor staked", "Line_14": "his wig that, camped where they were in the marsh,", "Line_15": "and unprovided with remedies, the half of them would", "Line_16": "be on their backs before a week.", "Line_17": "\"So,\" he added, \"if we are not all shot down first", "Line_18": "they'll be glad to be packing in the schooner. It's", "Line_19": "always a ship, and they can get to buccaneering again,", "Line_20": "I suppose.\"", "Line_21": "\"First ship that ever I lost,\" said Captain", "Line_22": "Smollett.", "Line_23": "I was dead tired, as you may fancy; and when I", "Line_24": "got to sleep, which was not till after a great deal of", "Line_25": "tossing, I slept like a log of wood.", "Line_26": "The rest had long been up, and had already", "Line_27": "breakfasted and increased the pile of firewood by", "Line_28": "about half as much again, when I was wakened by", "Line_29": "a bustle and the sound of voices." }] }, "Lesson_0158": { "Name": "Lesson_0158", "Number": 158, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 19 - Page 157: The Garrison in the Stockade", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "\"Flag of truce!\" I heard someone say; and then,", "Line_02": "immediately after, with a cry of surprise, \"Silver", "Line_03": "himself!\"", "Line_04": "And, at that, up I jumped, and, rubbing my eyes,", "Line_05": "ran to a loophole in the wall." }] }, "Lesson_0159": { "Name": "Lesson_0159", "Number": 159, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 20 - Page 158: Silver's Embassy", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Chapter 20", "Line_02": "Silver's Embassy", "Line_03": "Sure enough, there were two men just outside the", "Line_04": "stockade, one of them waving a white cloth; the", "Line_05": "other, no less a person than Silver himself, standing", "Line_06": "placidly by.", "Line_07": "It was still quite early, and the coldest morning that", "Line_08": "I think I ever was abroad in; a chill that pierced into", "Line_09": "the marrow. The sky was bright and cloudless over-", "Line_10": "head, and the tops of the trees shone rosily in the sun.", "Line_11": "But where Silver stood with his lieutenant all was still", "Line_12": "in shadow, and they waded knee-deep in a low, white", "Line_13": "vapour, that had crawled during the night out of the", "Line_14": "morass. The chill and the vapour taken together told a", "Line_15": "poor tale of the island. It was plainly a damp, feverish,", "Line_16": "unhealthy spot.", "Line_17": "\"Keep indoors, men,\" said the captain. \"Ten to", "Line_18": "one this is a trick.\"", "Line_19": "Then he hailed the buccaneer.", "Line_20": "\"Who goes? Stand, or we fire.\"", "Line_21": "\"Flag of truce,\" cried Silver.", "Line_22": "The captain was in the porch, keeping himself care-", "Line_23": "fully out of the way of a treacherous shot should any be", "Line_24": "intended. He turned and spoke to us: —" }] }, "Lesson_0160": { "Name": "Lesson_0160", "Number": 160, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 20 - Page 159: Silver's Embassy", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "\"Doctor's watch on the look out. Dr. Livesey take", "Line_02": "the north side, if you please; Jim, the east; Gray,", "Line_03": "west. The watch below, all hands to load muskets.", "Line_04": "Lively, men, and careful.\"", "Line_05": "And then he turned again to the mutineers.", "Line_06": "\"And what do you want with your flag of truce?\"", "Line_07": "he cried.", "Line_08": "This time it was the other man who replied.", "Line_09": "\"Cap'n Silver, sir, to come on board and make", "Line_10": "terms,\" he shouted.", "Line_11": "\"Cap'n Silver! Don't know him. Who's he?\"", "Line_12": "cried the captain. And we could hear him adding to", "Line_13": "himself:", "Line_14": "\"Cap'n, is it? My heart, and here's pro-", "Line_15": "motion!\"", "Line_16": "Long John answered for himself.", "Line_17": "\"Me, sir. These poor lads have chosen me cap'n,", "Line_18": "after your desertion, sir\"—laying a particular emphasis", "Line_19": "upon the word \"desertion.\" \"We're willing to submit,", "Line_20": "if we can come to terms, and no bones about it. All I", "Line_21": "ask is your word, Cap'n Smollett, to let me safe and", "Line_22": "sound out of this here stockade, and one minute to get", "Line_23": "out o' shot before a gun is fired.\"", "Line_24": "\"My man,\" said Captain Smollett, \"I have not the", "Line_25": "slightest desire to talk to you. If you wish to talk to", "Line_26": "me, you can come, that's all. If there's any treachery,", "Line_27": "it 'll be on your side, and the Lord help you.\"", "Line_28": "\"That's enough, cap'n,\" shouted Long John,", "Line_29": "cheerily. \"A word from you's enough. I know a", "Line_30": "gentleman, and you may lay to that.\"" }] }, "Lesson_0161": { "Name": "Lesson_0161", "Number": 161, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 20 - Page 160: Silver's Embassy", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "We could see the man who carried the flag of truce", "Line_02": "attempting to hold Silver back. Nor was that wonderful,", "Line_03": "seeing how cavalier had been the captain's answer. But", "Line_04": "Silver laughed at him aloud, and slapped him on the", "Line_05": "back, as if the idea of alarm had been absurd. Then he", "Line_06": "advanced to the stockade, threw over his crutch, got", "Line_07": "a leg up, and with great vigour and skill succeeded in", "Line_08": "surmounting the fence and dropping safely to the other", "Line_09": "side.", "Line_10": "I will confess that I was far too much taken up with", "Line_11": "what was going on to be of the slightest use as sentry;", "Line_12": "indeed, I had already deserted my eastern loophole, and", "Line_13": "crept up behind the captain, who had now seated him-", "Line_14": "self on the threshold, with his elbows on his knees, his", "Line_15": "head in his hands, and his eyes fixed on the water, as it", "Line_16": "bubbled out of the old iron kettle in the sand. He was", "Line_17": "whistling to himself, \"Come, Lasses and Lads.\"", "Line_18": "Silver had terrible hard work getting up the knoll.", "Line_19": "What with the steepness of the incline, the thick tree", "Line_20": "stumps, and the soft sand, he and his crutch were as", "Line_21": "helpless as a ship in stays. But he stuck to it like a", "Line_22": "man in silence, and at last arrived before the captain,", "Line_23": "whom he saluted in the handsomest style. He was", "Line_24": "tricked out in his best; an immense blue coat, thick", "Line_25": "with brass buttons, hung as low as to his knees, and a", "Line_26": "fine laced hat was set on the back of his head.", "Line_27": "\"Here you are, my man,\" said the captain, raising", "Line_28": "his head. \"You had better sit down.\"", "Line_29": "\"You aint a-going to let me inside, cap'n?\" complained" }] }, "Lesson_0162": { "Name": "Lesson_0162", "Number": 162, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 20 - Page 161: Silver's Embassy", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Long John. \"It's a main cold morning, to be", "Line_02": "sure, sir, to sit outside upon the sand.\"", "Line_03": "\"Why, Silver,\" said the captain, \"if you had", "Line_04": "pleased to be an honest man, you might have been", "Line_05": "sitting in your galley. It's your own doing. You're", "Line_06": "either my ship's cook—and then you were treated hand-", "Line_07": "some—or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate,", "Line_08": "and then you can go hang!\"", "Line_09": "\"Well, well, cap'n,\" returned the sea cook, sitting", "Line_10": "down as he was bidden on the sand, \"you'll have to give", "Line_11": "me a hand up again, that's all. A sweet pretty place", "Line_12": "you have of it here. Ah, there's Jim! The top of", "Line_13": "the morning to you, Jim. Doctor, here's my service.", "Line_14": "Why, there you all are together like a happy family, in", "Line_15": "a manner of speaking.\"", "Line_16": "\"If you have anything to say, my man, better say", "Line_17": "it,\" said the captain.", "Line_18": "\"Right you were, Cap'n Smollett,\" replied Silver.", "Line_19": "\"Dooty is dooty, to be sure. Well, now, you look here,", "Line_20": "that was a good lay of yours last night. I don't deny", "Line_21": "it was a good lay. Some of you pretty handy with", "Line_22": "a handspike-end. And I'll not deny neither but what", "Line_23": "some of my people was shook—maybe all was shook;", "Line_24": "maybe I was shook myself; maybe that's why I'm here", "Line_25": "for terms. But you mark me, cap'n, it won't do twice,", "Line_26": "by thunder! We'll have to do sentry-go, and ease off a", "Line_27": "point or so on the rum. Maybe you think we were all", "Line_28": "a sheet in the wind's eye. But I'll tell you I was sober;", "Line_29": "I was on'y dog tired; and if I'd awoke a second sooner" }] }, "Lesson_0163": { "Name": "Lesson_0163", "Number": 163, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 20 - Page 162: Silver's Embassy", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "I'd a' caught you at the act, I would. He wasn't dead", "Line_02": "when I got round to him, not he.\"", "Line_03": "\"Well?\" says Captain Smollett, as cool as can be.", "Line_04": "All that Silver said was a riddle to him, but you", "Line_05": "would never have guessed it from his tone. As for me,", "Line_06": "I began to have an inkling. Ben Gunn's last words", "Line_07": "came back to my mind. I began to suppose that he had", "Line_08": "paid the buccaneers a visit while they all lay drunk", "Line_09": "together round their fire, and I reckoned up with glee", "Line_10": "that we had only fourteen enemies to deal with.", "Line_11": "\"Well, here it is,\" said Silver. \"We want that", "Line_12": "treasure, and we'll have it—that's our point! You", "Line_13": "would just as soon save your lives, I reckon; and that's", "Line_14": "yours. You have a chart, haven't you?\"", "Line_15": "\"That's as may be,\" replied the captain.", "Line_16": "\"Oh, well, you have, I know that,\" returned Long", "Line_17": "John. \"You needn't be so husky with a man; there", "Line_18": "aint a particle of service in that, and you may lay to it.", "Line_19": "What I mean is, we want your chart. Now, I never", "Line_20": "meant you no harm, myself.\"", "Line_21": "\"That won't do with me, my man,\" interrupted the", "Line_22": "captain. \"We know exactly what you meant to do,", "Line_23": "and we don't care; for now, you see, you can't do", "Line_24": "it.\"", "Line_25": "And the captain looked at him calmly, and proceeded", "Line_26": "to fill a pipe.", "Line_27": "\"If Abe Gray—\" Silver broke out.", "Line_28": "\"Avast there!\" cried Mr. Smollett. \"Gray told", "Line_29": "me nothing, and I asked him nothing; and what's more I" }] }, "Lesson_0164": { "Name": "Lesson_0164", "Number": 164, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 20 - Page 163: Silver's Embassy", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "would see you and him and this whole island blown", "Line_02": "clean out of the water into blazes first. So there's my", "Line_03": "mind for you, my man, on that.\"", "Line_04": "This little whiff of temper seemed to cool Silver", "Line_05": "down. He had been growing nettled before, but now", "Line_06": "he pulled himself together.", "Line_07": "\"Like enough,\" said he. \"I would set no limits to", "Line_08": "what gentlemen might consider shipshape, or might not,", "Line_09": "as the case were. And, seein' as how you are about to", "Line_10": "take a pipe, cap'n, I'll make so free as do likewise.\"", "Line_11": "And he filled a pipe and lighted it; and the two", "Line_12": "men sat silently smoking for quite a while, now looking", "Line_13": "each other in the face, now stopping their tobacco, now", "Line_14": "leaning forward to spit. It was as good as the play to", "Line_15": "see them.", "Line_16": "\"Now,\" resumed Silver, \"here it is. You give us", "Line_17": "the chart to get the treasure by, and drop shooting poor", "Line_18": "seamen, and stoving of their heads in while asleep. You", "Line_19": "do that, and we'll offer you a choice. Either you come", "Line_20": "aboard along of us, once the treasure shipped, and then", "Line_21": "I'll give you my affy-davy, upon my word of honour, to", "Line_22": "clap you somewhere safe ashore. Or, if that aint to", "Line_23": "your fancy, some of my hands being rough, and having", "Line_24": "old scores, on account of hazing, then you can stay here,", "Line_25": "you can. We'll divide stores with you, man for man;", "Line_26": "and I'll give my affy-davy, as before, to speak the first ship", "Line_27": "I sight, and send 'em here to pick you up. Now you'll", "Line_28": "own that's talking. Handsomer you couldn't look to", "Line_29": "get, not you. And I hope\"—raising his voice—\"that" }] }, "Lesson_0165": { "Name": "Lesson_0165", "Number": 165, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 20 - Page 164: Silver's Embassy", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "all hands in this here block-house will overhaul my", "Line_02": "words, for what is spoke to one is spoke to all.\"", "Line_03": "Captain Smollett rose from his seat, and knocked out", "Line_04": "the ashes of his pipe in the palm of his left hand.", "Line_05": "\"Is that all?\" he asked.", "Line_06": "\"Every last word, by thunder!\" answered John.", "Line_07": "\"Refuse that, and you've seen the last of me but", "Line_08": "musket-balls.\"", "Line_09": "\"Very good,\" said the captain. \"Now you'll hear", "Line_10": "me. If you'll come up one by one, unarmed, I'll engage", "Line_11": "to clap you all in irons, and take you home to a fair trial", "Line_12": "in England. If you won't, my name is Alexander", "Line_13": "Smollett, I've flown my sovereign's colours, and I'll", "Line_14": "see you all to Davy Jones. You can't find the treasure.", "Line_15": "You can't sail the ship—there's not a man among you", "Line_16": "fit to sail the ship. You can't fight us—Gray, there,", "Line_17": "got away from five of you. Your ship's in irons, Master", "Line_18": "Silver; you're on a lee shore, and so you'll find. I", "Line_19": "stand here and tell you so; and they're the last good", "Line_20": "words you'll get from me; for, in the name of heaven,", "Line_21": "I'll put a bullet in your back when next I meet you.", "Line_22": "Tramp, my lad. Bundle out of this, please, hand over", "Line_23": "hand, and double quick.\"", "Line_24": "Silver's face was a picture; his eyes started in his", "Line_25": "head with wrath. He shook the fire out of his pipe.", "Line_26": "\"Give me a hand up!\" he cried.", "Line_27": "\"Not I,\" returned the captain.", "Line_28": "\"Who'll give me a hand up?\" he roared.", "Line_29": "Not a man among us moved. Growling the foulest" }] }, "Lesson_0166": { "Name": "Lesson_0166", "Number": 166, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 20 - Page 165: Silver's Embassy", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "imprecations, he crawled along the sand till he got", "Line_02": "hold of the porch and could hoist himself again upon", "Line_03": "his crutch. Then he spat into the spring.", "Line_04": "\"There!\" he cried, \"that's what I think of ye.", "Line_05": "Before an hour's out, I'll stove in your old block-house", "Line_06": "like a rum puncheon. Laugh, by thunder, laugh!", "Line_07": "Before an hour's out, ye'll laugh upon the other side.", "Line_08": "Them that die 'll be the lucky ones.\"", "Line_09": "And with a dreadful oath he stumbled off, ploughed", "Line_10": "down the sand, was helped across the stockade, after", "Line_11": "four or five failures, by the man with the flag of", "Line_12": "truce, and disappeared in an instant afterwards among", "Line_13": "the trees." }] }, "Lesson_0167": { "Name": "Lesson_0167", "Number": 167, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 21 - Page 166: The Attack", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Chapter 21", "Line_02": "The Attack", "Line_03": "As soon as Silver disappeared, the captain, who had", "Line_04": "been closely watching him, turned towards the interior", "Line_05": "of the house, and found not a man of us at his post but", "Line_06": "Gray. It was the first time we had ever seen him", "Line_07": "angry.", "Line_08": "\"Quarters!\" he roared. And then, as we all slunk", "Line_09": "back to our places, \"Gray,\" he said, \"I'll put your", "Line_10": "name in the log; you've stood by your duty like a", "Line_11": "seaman. Mr. Trelawney, I'm surprised at you, sir.", "Line_12": "Doctor, I thought you had worn the king's coat! If", "Line_13": "that was how you served at Fontenoy, sir, you'd have", "Line_14": "been better in your berth.\"", "Line_15": "The doctor's watch were all back at their loopholes,", "Line_16": "the rest were busy loading the spare muskets, and every", "Line_17": "one with a red face, you may be certain, and a flea in", "Line_18": "his ear, as the saying is.", "Line_19": "The captain looked on for a while in silence. Then", "Line_20": "he spoke.", "Line_21": "\"My lads,\" said he, \"I've given Silver a broadside.", "Line_22": "I pitched it in red-hot on purpose; and before the", "Line_23": "hour's out, as he said, we shall be boarded. We're" }] }, "Lesson_0168": { "Name": "Lesson_0168", "Number": 168, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 21 - Page 167: The Attack", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "outnumbered, I needn't tell you that, but we fight", "Line_02": "in shelter; and, a minute ago, I should have said we", "Line_03": "fought with discipline. I've no manner of doubt that", "Line_04": "we can drub them, if you choose.\"", "Line_05": "Then he went the rounds, and saw, as he said, that", "Line_06": "all was clear.", "Line_07": "On the two short sides of the house, east and west,", "Line_08": "there were only two loopholes; on the south side where", "Line_09": "the porch was, two again; and on the north side, five.", "Line_10": "There was a round score of muskets for the seven of", "Line_11": "us; the firewood had been built into four piles—tables,", "Line_12": "you might say—one about the middle of each side, and", "Line_13": "on each of these tables some ammunition and four", "Line_14": "loaded muskets were laid ready to the hand of the", "Line_15": "defenders. In the middle, the cutlasses lay ranged.", "Line_16": "\"Toss out the fire,\" said the captain; \"the chill is", "Line_17": "past, and we mustn't have smoke in our eyes.\"", "Line_18": "The iron fire basket was carried bodily out by Mr.", "Line_19": "Trelawney, and the embers smothered among sand.", "Line_20": "\"Hawkins hasn't had his breakfast. Hawkins,", "Line_21": "help yourself, and back to your post to eat it,\" con-", "Line_22": "tinued Captain Smollett. \"Lively, now, my lad; you'll", "Line_23": "want it before you've done. Hunter, serve out a round", "Line_24": "of brandy to all hands.\"", "Line_25": "And while this was going on, the captain completed,", "Line_26": "in his own mind, the plan of the defence.", "Line_27": "\"Doctor, you will take the door,\" he resumed.", "Line_28": "\"See, and don't expose yourself; keep within, and fire", "Line_29": "through the porch. Hunter, take the east side, there.\"" }] }, "Lesson_0169": { "Name": "Lesson_0169", "Number": 169, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 21 - Page 168: The Attack", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "\"Joyce, you stand by the west, my man. Mr. Trelawney,", "Line_02": "you are the best shot—you and Gray will take this long", "Line_03": "north side, with the five loopholes; it's there the danger", "Line_04": "is. If they can get up to it, and fire in upon us", "Line_05": "through our own ports, things would begin to look", "Line_06": "dirty. Hawkins, neither you nor I are much account", "Line_07": "at the shooting; we'll stand by to load and bear a", "Line_08": "hand.\"", "Line_09": "As the captain had said, the chill was past. As", "Line_10": "soon as the sun had climbed above our girdle of trees,", "Line_11": "it fell with all its force upon the clearing, and drank", "Line_12": "up the vapours at a draught. Soon the sand was", "Line_13": "baking, and the resin melting in the logs of the block-", "Line_14": "house. Jackets and coats were flung aside; shirts", "Line_15": "thrown open at the neck, and rolled up to the shoulders;", "Line_16": "and we stood there, each at his post, in a fever of heat", "Line_17": "and anxiety.", "Line_18": "An hour passed away.", "Line_19": "\"Hang them!\" said the captain. \"This is as dull", "Line_20": "as the doldrums. Gray, whistle for a wind.\"", "Line_21": "And just at that moment came the first news of the", "Line_22": "attack.", "Line_23": "\"If you please, sir,\" said Joyce, \"if I see any one", "Line_24": "am I to fire?\"", "Line_25": "\"I told you so!\" cried the captain.", "Line_26": "\"Thank you, sir,\" returned Joyce, with the same", "Line_27": "quiet civility.", "Line_28": "Nothing followed for a time; but the remark had", "Line_29": "set us all on the alert, straining ears and eyes—the" }] }, "Lesson_0170": { "Name": "Lesson_0170", "Number": 170, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 21 - Page 169: The Attack", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "musketeers with their pieces balanced in their hands,", "Line_02": "the captain out in the middle of the block-house, with", "Line_03": "his mouth very tight and a frown on his face.", "Line_04": "So some seconds passed, till suddenly Joyce whipped", "Line_05": "up his musket and fired. The report had scarcely died", "Line_06": "away ere it was repeated and repeated from without", "Line_07": "in a scattering volley, shot behind shot, like a string", "Line_08": "of geese, from every side of the enclosure. Several", "Line_09": "bullets struck the log-house, but not one entered;", "Line_10": "and, as the smoke cleared away and vanished, the", "Line_11": "stockade and the woods around it looked as quiet and", "Line_12": "empty as before. Not a bough waved, not the gleam", "Line_13": "of a musket-barrel betrayed the presence of our foes.", "Line_14": "\"Did you hit your man?\" asked the captain.", "Line_15": "\"No, sir,\" replied Joyce. \"I believe not, sir.\"", "Line_16": "\"Next best thing to tell the truth,\" muttered", "Line_17": "Captain Smollett. \"Load his gun, Hawkins. How", "Line_18": "many should you say there were on your side, doctor?\"", "Line_19": "\"I know precisely,\" said Dr. Livesey. \"Three", "Line_20": "shots were fired on this side. I saw the three flashes", "Line_21": "—two close together—one farther to the west.\"", "Line_22": "\"Three!\" repeated the captain. \"And how many", "Line_23": "on yours, Mr. Trelawney?\"", "Line_24": "But this was not so easily answered. There had", "Line_25": "come many from the north—seven, by the squire's", "Line_26": "computation; eight or nine, according to Gray. From", "Line_27": "the east and west only a single shot had been fired. It", "Line_28": "was plain, therefore, that the attack would be developed", "Line_29": "from the north, and that on the other three sides we" }] }, "Lesson_0171": { "Name": "Lesson_0171", "Number": 171, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 21 - Page 170: The Attack", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "were only to be annoyed by a show of hostilities. But", "Line_02": "Captain Smollett made no change in his arrangements.", "Line_03": "If the mutineers succeeded in crossing the stockade, he", "Line_04": "argued, they would take possession of any unprotected", "Line_05": "loophole, and shoot us down like rats in our own strong-", "Line_06": "hold.", "Line_07": "Nor had we much time left to us for thought.", "Line_08": "Suddenly, with a loud huzza, a little cloud of pirates", "Line_09": "leaped from the woods on the north side, and ran", "Line_10": "straight on the stockade. At the same moment, the fire", "Line_11": "was once more opened from the woods, and a rifle ball", "Line_12": "sang through the doorway, and knocked the doctor's", "Line_13": "musket into bits.", "Line_14": "The boarders swarmed over the fence like monkeys.", "Line_15": "Squire and Gray fired again and yet again; three men", "Line_16": "fell, one forwards into the enclosure, two back on the", "Line_17": "outside. But of these, one was evidently more frightened", "Line_18": "than hurt, for he was on his feet again in a crack, and", "Line_19": "instantly disappeared among the trees.", "Line_20": "Two had bit the dust, one had fled, four had made", "Line_21": "good their footing inside our defences; while from the", "Line_22": "shelter of the woods seven or eight men, each evidently", "Line_23": "supplied with several muskets, kept up a hot though", "Line_24": "useless fire on the log-house.", "Line_25": "The four who had boarded made straight before", "Line_26": "them for the building, shouting as they ran, and the", "Line_27": "men among the trees shouted back to encourage them.", "Line_28": "Several shots were fired; but, such was the hurry of", "Line_29": "the marksmen, that not one appears to have taken" }] }, "Lesson_0172": { "Name": "Lesson_0172", "Number": 172, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 21 - Page 171: The Attack", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "effect. In a moment, the four pirates had swarmed up", "Line_02": "the mound and were upon us.", "Line_03": "The head of Job Anderson, the boatswain, appeared", "Line_04": "at the middle loophole.", "Line_05": "\"At 'em; all hands—all hands!\" he roared, in a", "Line_06": "voice of thunder.", "Line_07": "At the same moment, another pirate grasped", "Line_08": "Hunter's musket by the muzzle, wrenched it from his", "Line_09": "hands, plucked it through the loophole, and, with one", "Line_10": "stunning blow, laid the poor fellow senseless on the", "Line_11": "floor. Meanwhile a third, running unharmed all round", "Line_12": "the house, appeared suddenly in the doorway, and fell", "Line_13": "with his cutlass on the doctor.", "Line_14": "Our position was utterly reversed. A moment since", "Line_15": "we were firing, under cover, at an exposed enemy; now", "Line_16": "it was we who lay uncovered, and could not return a", "Line_17": "blow.", "Line_18": "The log-house was full of smoke, to which we owed", "Line_19": "our comparative safety. Cries and confusion, the flashes", "Line_20": "and reports of pistol shots, and one loud groan, rang in", "Line_21": "my ears.", "Line_22": "\"Out, lads, out, and fight \"em in the open! Cut-", "Line_23": "lasses!\" cried the captain.", "Line_24": "I snatched a cutlass from the pile, and some one, at", "Line_25": "the same time snatching another, gave me a cut across", "Line_26": "the knuckles which I hardly felt. I dashed out of the", "Line_27": "door into the clear sunlight. Some one was close be-", "Line_28": "hind, I knew not whom. Right in front, the doctor", "Line_29": "was pursuing his assailant down the hill, and, just as" }] }, "Lesson_0173": { "Name": "Lesson_0173", "Number": 173, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 21 - Page 172: The Attack", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "my eyes fell upon him, beat down his guard, and sent", "Line_02": "him sprawling on his back, with a great slash across the", "Line_03": "face.", "Line_04": "\"Round the house, lads! round the house!\" cried", "Line_05": "the captain; and even in the hurly-burly I perceived a", "Line_06": "change in his voice.", "Line_07": "Mechanically, I obeyed, turned eastwards, and with", "Line_08": "my cutlass raised, ran round the corner of the house.", "Line_09": "Next moment I was face to face with Anderson. He", "Line_10": "roared aloud, and his hanger went up above his head,", "Line_11": "flashing in the sunlight. I had not time to be afraid,", "Line_12": "but, as the blow still hung impending, leaped in a trice", "Line_13": "upon one side, and missing my foot in the soft sand,", "Line_14": "rolled headlong down the slope.", "Line_15": "When I had first sallied from the door, the other", "Line_16": "mutineers had been already swarming up the palisade", "Line_17": "to make an end of us. One man, in a red night-cap,", "Line_18": "with his cutlass in his mouth, had even got upon the", "Line_19": "top and thrown a leg across. Well, so short had been", "Line_20": "the interval, that when I found my feet again all was", "Line_21": "in the same posture, the fellow with the red night-", "Line_22": "cap still half way over, another still just showing his", "Line_23": "head above the top of the stockade. And yet, in this", "Line_24": "breath of time, the fight was over, and the victory was", "Line_25": "ours.", "Line_26": "Gray, following close behind me, had cut down", "Line_27": "the big boatswain ere he had time to recover from", "Line_28": "his lost blow. Another had been shot at a loophole", "Line_29": "in the very act of firing into the house, and now" }] }, "Lesson_0174": { "Name": "Lesson_0174", "Number": 174, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 21 - Page 173: The Attack", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "lay in agony, the pistol still smoking in his hand. A", "Line_02": "third, as I had seen, the doctor had disposed of at a", "Line_03": "blow. Of the four who had scaled the palisade, one", "Line_04": "only remained unaccounted for, and he, having left", "Line_05": "his cutlass on the field, was now clambering out again", "Line_06": "with the fear of death upon him.", "Line_07": "\"Fire—fire from the house!\" cried the doctor.", "Line_08": "\"And you, lads, back into cover.\"", "Line_09": "But his words were unheeded, no shot was fired,", "Line_10": "and the last boarder made good his escape, and", "Line_11": "disappeared with the rest into the wood. In three", "Line_12": "seconds nothing remained of the attacking party but", "Line_13": "the five who had fallen, four on the inside, and one", "Line_14": "on the outside, of the palisade.", "Line_15": "The doctor and Gray and I ran full speed for", "Line_16": "shelter. The survivors would soon be back where they", "Line_17": "had left their muskets, and at any moment the fire", "Line_18": "might recommence.", "Line_19": "The house was by this time somewhat cleared of", "Line_20": "smoke, and we saw at a glance the price we had paid", "Line_21": "for victory. Hunter lay beside his loophole, stunned;", "Line_22": "Joyce by his, shot through the head, never to move", "Line_23": "again; while right in the centre, the squire was sup-", "Line_24": "porting the captain, one as pale as the other.", "Line_25": "\"The captain's wounded,\" said Mr. Trelawney.", "Line_26": "\"Have they run?\" asked Mr. Smollett.", "Line_27": "\"All that could, you may be bound,\" returned the", "Line_28": "doctor; \"but there's five of them will never run again.\"", "Line_29": "\"Five!\" cried the captain. \"Come, that's better." }] }, "Lesson_0175": { "Name": "Lesson_0175", "Number": 175, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 4 - Chapter 21 - Page 174: The Attack", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "\"Five against three leaves us four to nine. That's better", "Line_02": "odds than we had at starting.\"", "Line_03": "\"We were seven to nineteen then, or thought we were,", "Line_04": "and that's as bad to bear.\"", "Line_05": "The mutineers were soon only eight in number, for the", "Line_06": "man shot by Mr. Trelawney on board the schooner died that", "Line_07": "same evening of his wound. But this was, of course, not", "Line_08": "known till after by the faithful party." }] }, "Lesson_0176": { "Name": "Lesson_0176", "Number": 176, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 22 - Page 175: How My Sea Adventure Began", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Part 5", "Line_02": "My Sea Adventure", "Line_03": "Chapter 22", "Line_04": "How My Sea Adventure Began", "Line_05": "There was no return of the mutineers—not so much", "Line_06": "as another shot out of the woods. They had 'got their", "Line_07": "rations for that day,\" as the captain put it, and we", "Line_08": "had the place to ourselves and a quiet time to over-", "Line_09": "haul the wounded and get dinner. Squire and I cooked", "Line_10": "outside in spite of the danger, and even outside we", "Line_11": "could hardly tell what we were at, for horror of the", "Line_12": "loud groans that reached us from the doctor's patients.", "Line_13": "Out of the eight men who had fallen in the", "Line_14": "action, only three still breathed—that one of the", "Line_15": "pirates who had been shot at the loophole, Hunter,", "Line_16": "and Captain Smollett; and of these the first two", "Line_17": "were as good as dead; the mutineer, indeed, died", "Line_18": "under the doctor's knife, and Hunter, do what we", "Line_19": "could, never recovered consciousness in this world.", "Line_20": "He lingered all day, breathing loudly like the old", "Line_21": "buccaneer at home in his apoplectic fit; but the bones" }] }, "Lesson_0177": { "Name": "Lesson_0177", "Number": 177, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 22 - Page 176: How My Sea Adventure Began", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "of his chest had been crushed by the blow and his", "Line_02": "skull fractured in falling, and some time in the", "Line_03": "following night, without sign or sound, he went to", "Line_04": "his Maker.", "Line_05": "As for the captain, his wounds were grievous", "Line_06": "indeed, but not dangerous. No organ was fatally", "Line_07": "injured. Anderson's ball—for it was Job that shot", "Line_08": "him first—had broken his shoulder-blade and touched", "Line_09": "the lung, not badly; the second had only torn and", "Line_10": "displaced some muscles in the calf. He was sure to", "Line_11": "recover, the doctor said, but, in the meantime and", "Line_12": "for weeks to come, he must not walk nor move his", "Line_13": "arm, nor so much as speak when he could help", "Line_14": "it.", "Line_15": "My own accidental cut across the knuckles was a", "Line_16": "flea-bite. Doctor Livesey patched it up with plaster,", "Line_17": "and pulled my ears for me into the bargain.", "Line_18": "After dinner the squire and the doctor sat by the", "Line_19": "captain's side a while in consultation; and when they", "Line_20": "had talked to their hearts\" content, it being then a little", "Line_21": "past noon, the doctor took up his hat and pistols, girt", "Line_22": "on a cutlass, put the chart in his pocket, and with a", "Line_23": "musket over his shoulder, crossed the palisade on the", "Line_24": "north side, and set off briskly through the trees.", "Line_25": "Gray and I were sitting together at the far end of", "Line_26": "the block-house, to be out of earshot of our officers con-", "Line_27": "sulting; and Gray took his pipe out of his mouth and", "Line_28": "fairly forgot to put it back again, so thunder-struck he", "Line_29": "was at this occurrence." }] }, "Lesson_0178": { "Name": "Lesson_0178", "Number": 178, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 22 - Page 177: How My Sea Adventure Began", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "\"Why, in the name of Davy Jones,\" said he, \"is", "Line_02": "Dr. Livesey mad?\"", "Line_03": "\"Why, no,\" says I. \"He's about the last of this", "Line_04": "crew for that, I take it.\"", "Line_05": "\"Well, shipmate,\" said Gray, \"mad he may not be;", "Line_06": "but if he's not, you mark my words, I am.\"", "Line_07": "\"I take it,\" replied I, \"the doctor has his idea;", "Line_08": "and if I am right, he's going now to see Ben", "Line_09": "Gunn.\"", "Line_10": "I was right, as appeared later; but, in the meantime,", "Line_11": "the house being stifling hot, and the little patch of sand", "Line_12": "inside the palisade ablaze with midday sun, I began to", "Line_13": "get another thought into my head, which was not by", "Line_14": "any means so right. What I began to do was to envy", "Line_15": "the doctor, walking in the cool shadow of the woods, with", "Line_16": "the birds about him, and the pleasant smell of the pines,", "Line_17": "while I sat grilling, with my clothes stuck to the hot", "Line_18": "resin, and so much blood about me, and so many poor", "Line_19": "dead bodies lying all around, that I took a disgust of the", "Line_20": "place that was almost as strong as fear.", "Line_21": "All the time I was washing out the block-house, and", "Line_22": "then washing up the things from dinner, this disgust", "Line_23": "and envy kept growing stronger and stronger, till at", "Line_24": "last, being near a bread-bag, and no one then observing", "Line_25": "me, I took the first step towards my escapade, and filled", "Line_26": "both pockets of my coat with biscuit.", "Line_27": "I was a fool, if you like, and certainly I was going", "Line_28": "to do a foolish, over-bold act; but I was determined", "Line_29": "to do it with all the precautions in my power." }] }, "Lesson_0179": { "Name": "Lesson_0179", "Number": 179, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 22 - Page 178: How My Sea Adventure Began", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "These biscuits, should anything befall me, would keep", "Line_02": "me, at least, from starving till far on in the next", "Line_03": "day.", "Line_04": "The next thing I laid hold of was a brace of pistols,", "Line_05": "and as I already had a powder-horn and bullets, I felt", "Line_06": "myself well supplied with arms.", "Line_07": "As for the scheme I had in my head, it was not a", "Line_08": "bad one in itself. I was to go down the sandy spit", "Line_09": "that divides the anchorage on the east from the open", "Line_10": "sea, find the white rock I had observed last evening,", "Line_11": "and ascertain whether it was there or not that Ben", "Line_12": "Gunn had hidden his boat; a thing quite worth doing,", "Line_13": "as I still believe. But as I was certain I should not be", "Line_14": "allowed to leave the enclosure, my only plan was to take", "Line_15": "French leave, and slip out when nobody was watching;", "Line_16": "and that was so bad a way of doing it as made the thing", "Line_17": "itself wrong. But I was only a boy, and I had made", "Line_18": "my mind up.", "Line_19": "Well, as things at last fell out, I found an admirable", "Line_20": "opportunity. The squire and Gray were busy helping", "Line_21": "the captain with his bandages; the coast was clear;", "Line_22": "I made a bolt for it over the stockade and into the", "Line_23": "thickest of the trees, and before my absence was observed", "Line_24": "I was out of cry of my companions.", "Line_25": "This was my second folly, far worse than the first,", "Line_26": "as I left but two sound men to guard the house; but", "Line_27": "like the first, it was a help towards saving all of", "Line_28": "us.", "Line_29": "I took my way straight for the east coast of the" }] }, "Lesson_0180": { "Name": "Lesson_0180", "Number": 180, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 22 - Page 179: How My Sea Adventure Began", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "island, for I was determined to go down the sea side of", "Line_02": "the spit to avoid all chance of observation from the an-", "Line_03": "chorage. It was already late in the afternoon, although", "Line_04": "still warm and sunny. As I continued to thread the tall", "Line_05": "woods I could hear from far before me not only the con-", "Line_06": "tinuous thunder of the surf, but a certain tossing of", "Line_07": "foliage and grinding of boughs which showed me the", "Line_08": "sea breeze had set in higher than usual. Soon cool", "Line_09": "draughts of air began to reach me; and a few steps", "Line_10": "farther I came forth into the open borders of the grove,", "Line_11": "and saw the sea lying blue and sunny to the horizon,", "Line_12": "and the surf tumbling and tossing its foam along the", "Line_13": "beach.", "Line_14": "I have never seen the sea quiet round Treasure", "Line_15": "Island. The sun might blaze overhead, the air be with-", "Line_16": "out a breath, the surface smooth and blue, but still", "Line_17": "these great rollers would be running along all the", "Line_18": "external coast, thundering and thundering by day and", "Line_19": "night; and I scarce believe there is one spot in the", "Line_20": "island where a man would be out of earshot of their", "Line_21": "noise.", "Line_22": "I walked along beside the surf with great enjoy-", "Line_23": "ment, till, thinking I was now got far enough to the", "Line_24": "south, I took the cover of some thick bushes, and crept", "Line_25": "warily up to the ridge of the spit.", "Line_26": "Behind me was the sea, in front the anchorage.", "Line_27": "The sea breeze, as though it had the sooner blown itself", "Line_28": "out by its unusual violence, was already at an end; it", "Line_29": "had been succeeded by light, variable airs from the south" }] }, "Lesson_0181": { "Name": "Lesson_0181", "Number": 181, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 22 - Page 180: How My Sea Adventure Began", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "and south-east, carrying great banks of fog; and the", "Line_02": "anchorage, under lee of Skeleton Island, lay still and", "Line_03": "leaden as when first we entered it. The Hispaniola, in", "Line_04": "that unbroken mirror, was exactly portrayed from the", "Line_05": "truck to the water-line, the Jolly Roger hanging from", "Line_06": "her peak.", "Line_07": "Alongside lay one of the gigs, Silver in the stern-", "Line_08": "sheets—him I could always recognise—while a couple", "Line_09": "of men were leaning over the stern bulwarks, one of", "Line_10": "them with a red cap—the very rogue that I had seen some", "Line_11": "hours before stride-legs upon the palisade. Apparently", "Line_12": "they were talking and laughing, though at that dis-", "Line_13": "tance—upwards of a mile—I could, of course, hear no", "Line_14": "word of what was said. All at once, there began the", "Line_15": "most horrid, unearthly screaming, which at first startled", "Line_16": "me badly, though I had soon remembered the voice of", "Line_17": "Captain Flint, and even thought I could make out the", "Line_18": "bird by her bright plumage as she sat perched upon", "Line_19": "her master's wrist.", "Line_20": "Soon after the jolly-boat shoved off and pulled", "Line_21": "for shore, and the man with the red cap and his", "Line_22": "comrade went below by the cabin companion.", "Line_23": "Just about the same time the sun had gone down", "Line_24": "behind the Spy-glass, and as the fog was collecting", "Line_25": "rapidly, it began to grow dark in earnest. I saw", "Line_26": "I must lose no time if I were to find the boat that", "Line_27": "evening.", "Line_28": "The white rock, visible enough above the brush, was", "Line_29": "still some eighth of a mile further down the spit, and it" }] }, "Lesson_0182": { "Name": "Lesson_0182", "Number": 182, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 22 - Page 181: How My Sea Adventure Began", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "took me a goodish while to get up with it, crawling,", "Line_02": "often on all-fours, among the scrub. Night had almost", "Line_03": "come when I laid my hand on its rough sides. Right", "Line_04": "below it there was an exceedingly small hollow of green", "Line_05": "turf, hidden by banks and a thick underwood about", "Line_06": "knee-deep, that grew there very plentifully; and in the", "Line_07": "centre of the dell, sure enough, a little tent of goat-", "Line_08": "skins, like what the gipsies carry about with them in", "Line_09": "England.", "Line_10": "I dropped into the hollow, lifted the side of the tent,", "Line_11": "and there was Ben Gunn's boat—home-made if ever", "Line_12": "anything was home-made: a rude, lop-sided framework", "Line_13": "of tough wood, and stretched upon that a covering of", "Line_14": "goat-skin, with the hair inside. The thing was ex-", "Line_15": "tremely small, even for me, and I can hardly imagine", "Line_16": "that it could have floated with a full-sized man.", "Line_17": "There was one thwart set as low as possible, a kind", "Line_18": "of stretcher in the bows, and a double paddle for pro-", "Line_19": "pulsion.", "Line_20": "I had not then seen a coracle, such as the ancient", "Line_21": "Britons made, but I have seen one since, and I can give", "Line_22": "you no fairer idea of Ben Gunn's boat than by saying", "Line_23": "it was like the first and the worst coracle ever made by", "Line_24": "man. But the great advantage of the coracle it", "Line_25": "certainly possessed, for it was exceedingly light and", "Line_26": "portable.", "Line_27": "Well, now that I had found the boat, you would", "Line_28": "have thought I had had enough of truancy for once;", "Line_29": "but, in the meantime, I had taken another notion, and" }] }, "Lesson_0183": { "Name": "Lesson_0183", "Number": 183, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 22 - Page 182: How My Sea Adventure Began", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "become so obstinately fond of it, that I would have", "Line_02": "carried it out, I believe, in the teeth of Captain Smollett", "Line_03": "himself. This was to slip out under cover of the night,", "Line_04": "cut the Hispaniola adrift, and let her go ashore where", "Line_05": "she fancied. I had quite made up my mind that the", "Line_06": "mutineers, after their repulse of the morning, had", "Line_07": "nothing nearer their hearts than to up anchor and away", "Line_08": "to sea; this, I thought, it would be a fine thing to", "Line_09": "prevent, and now that I had seen how they left their", "Line_10": "watchmen unprovided with a boat, I thought it might be", "Line_11": "done with little risk.", "Line_12": "Down I sat to wait for darkness, and made a hearty", "Line_13": "meal of biscuit. It was a night out of ten thousand for", "Line_14": "my purpose. The fog had now buried all heaven. As", "Line_15": "the last rays of daylight dwindled and disappeared,", "Line_16": "absolute blackness settled down on Treasure Island.", "Line_17": "And when, at last, I shouldered the coracle, and groped", "Line_18": "my way stumblingly out of the hollow where I had", "Line_19": "supped, there were but two points visible on the whole", "Line_20": "anchorage.", "Line_21": "One was the great fire on shore, by which the", "Line_22": "defeated pirates lay carousing in the swamp. The", "Line_23": "other, a mere blur of light upon the darkness, indicated", "Line_24": "the position of the anchored ship. She had swung", "Line_25": "round to the ebb—her bow was now towards me—the", "Line_26": "only lights on board were in the cabin; and what I saw", "Line_27": "was merely a reflection on the fog of the strong rays", "Line_28": "that flowed from the stern window.", "Line_29": "The ebb had already run some time, and I had to" }] }, "Lesson_0184": { "Name": "Lesson_0184", "Number": 184, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 22 - Page 183: How My Sea Adventure Began", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "wade through a long belt of swampy sand, where I", "Line_02": "sank several times above the ankle, before I came to", "Line_03": "the edge of the retreating water, and wading a little way", "Line_04": "in, with some strength and dexterity, set my coracle,", "Line_05": "keel downwards, on the surface." }] }, "Lesson_0185": { "Name": "Lesson_0185", "Number": 185, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 23 - Page 184: The Ebb-Tide Runs", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Chapter 23", "Line_02": "The Ebb-Tide Runs", "Line_03": "The coracle—as I had ample reason to know before I", "Line_04": "was done with her—was a very safe boat for a person of", "Line_05": "my height and weight, both buoyant and clever in a", "Line_06": "seaway; but she was the most cross-grained lop-sided", "Line_07": "craft to manage. Do as you pleased, she always made", "Line_08": "more leeway than anything else, and turning round and", "Line_09": "round was the manoeuvre she was best at. Even Ben", "Line_10": "Gunn himself has admitted that she was \"queer to", "Line_11": "handle till you knew her way.\"", "Line_12": "Certainly I did not know her way. She turned in", "Line_13": "every direction but the one I was bound to go; the most", "Line_14": "part of the time we were broadside on, and I am very", "Line_15": "sure I never should have made the ship at all but for the", "Line_16": "tide. By good fortune, paddle as I pleased, the tide was", "Line_17": "still sweeping me down; and there lay the Hispaniola", "Line_18": "right in the fair way, hardly to be missed.", "Line_19": "First she loomed before me like a blot of something", "Line_20": "yet blacker than darkness, then her spars and hull began", "Line_21": "to take shape, and the next moment, as it seemed (for,", "Line_22": "the further I went, the brisker grew the current of the", "Line_23": "ebb), I was alongside of her hawser, and had laid hold." }] }, "Lesson_0186": { "Name": "Lesson_0186", "Number": 186, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 23 - Page 185: The Ebb-Tide Runs", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "The hawser was as taut as a bowstring, and the cur-", "Line_02": "rent so strong she pulled upon her anchor. All round", "Line_03": "the hull, in the blackness, the rippling current bubbled", "Line_04": "and chattered like a little mountain stream. One cut", "Line_05": "with my sea-gully, and the Hispaniola would go hum-", "Line_06": "ming down the tide.", "Line_07": "So far so good; but it next occurred to my recollec-", "Line_08": "tion that a taut hawser, suddenly cut, is a thing as", "Line_09": "dangerous as a kicking horse. Ten to one, if I were", "Line_10": "so foolhardy as to cut the Hispaniola from her anchor,", "Line_11": "I and the coracle would be knocked clean out of the", "Line_12": "water.", "Line_13": "This brought me to a full stop, and if fortune had", "Line_14": "not again particularly favoured me, I should have had", "Line_15": "to abandon my design. But the light airs which had", "Line_16": "begun blowing from the south-east and south had", "Line_17": "hauled round after nightfall into the south-west.", "Line_18": "Just while I was meditating, a puff came, caught the", "Line_19": "Hispaniola, and forced her up into the current; and", "Line_20": "to my great joy, I felt the hawser slacken in my", "Line_21": "grasp, and the hand by which I held it dip for a second", "Line_22": "under water.", "Line_23": "With that I made my mind up, took out my gully,", "Line_24": "opened it with my teeth, and cut one strand after", "Line_25": "another, till the vessel swung only by two. Then I", "Line_26": "lay quiet, waiting to sever these last when the strain", "Line_27": "should be once more lightened by a breath of wind.", "Line_28": "All this time I had heard the sound of loud voices", "Line_29": "from the cabin; but, to say truth, my mind had been" }] }, "Lesson_0187": { "Name": "Lesson_0187", "Number": 187, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 23 - Page 186: The Ebb-Tide Runs", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "so entirely taken up with other thoughts that I had", "Line_02": "scarcely given ear. Now, however, when I had nothing", "Line_03": "else to do, I began to pay more heed.", "Line_04": "One I recognised for the coxswain's, Israel Hands,", "Line_05": "that had been Flint's gunner in former days. The other", "Line_06": "was, of course, my friend of the red night-cap. Both", "Line_07": "men were plainly the worse of drink, and they were", "Line_08": "still drinking; for, even while I was listening, one of", "Line_09": "them, with a drunken cry, opened the stern window", "Line_10": "and threw out something, which I divined to be an", "Line_11": "empty bottle. But they were not only tipsy; it was", "Line_12": "plain that they were furiously angry. Oaths flew", "Line_13": "like hailstones, and every now and then there came", "Line_14": "forth such an explosion as I thought was sure to end", "Line_15": "in blows. But each time the quarrel passed off, and", "Line_16": "the voices grumbled lower for a while, until the next", "Line_17": "crisis came, and, in its turn, passed away without result.", "Line_19": "On shore, I could see the glow of the great camp", "Line_20": "fire burning warmly through the shore-side trees. Some", "Line_21": "one was singing, a dull, old, droning sailor's song, with", "Line_22": "a droop and a quaver at the end of every verse, and", "Line_23": "seemingly no end to it at all but the patience of the", "Line_24": "singer. I had heard it on the voyage more than once,", "Line_25": "and remembered these words: —", "Line_26": "\"But one man of her crew alive,", "Line_27": "What put to sea with seventy-five.\"", "Line_28": "And I thought it was a ditty rather too dolefully appropriate" }] }, "Lesson_0188": { "Name": "Lesson_0188", "Number": 188, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 23 - Page 187: The Ebb-Tide Runs", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "for a company that had met such cruel losses", "Line_02": "in the morning. But, indeed, from what I saw, all", "Line_03": "these buccaneers were as callous as the sea they sailed", "Line_04": "on.", "Line_05": "At last the breeze came; the schooner sidled and", "Line_06": "drew nearer in the dark; I felt the hawser slacken", "Line_07": "once more, and with a good, tough effort, cut the last", "Line_08": "fibres through.", "Line_09": "The breeze had but little action on the coracle, and I", "Line_10": "was almost instantly swept against the bows of the", "Line_11": "Hispaniola. At the same time the schooner began to", "Line_12": "turn upon her heel, spinning slowly, end for end, across", "Line_13": "the current.", "Line_14": "I wrought like a fiend, for I expected every moment", "Line_15": "to be swamped; and since I found I could not push the", "Line_16": "coracle directly off, I now shoved straight astern. At", "Line_17": "length I was clear of my dangerous neighbour; and just", "Line_18": "as I gave the last impulsion, my hands came across a", "Line_19": "light cord that was trailing overboard across the stern", "Line_20": "bulwarks. Instantly I grasped it.", "Line_21": "Why I should have done so I can hardly say. It", "Line_22": "was at first mere instinct; but once I had it in my", "Line_23": "hands and found it fast, curiosity began to get the", "Line_24": "upper hand, and I determined I should have one look", "Line_25": "through the cabin window.", "Line_26": "I pulled in hand over hand on the cord, and, when", "Line_27": "I judged myself near enough, rose at infinite risk to", "Line_28": "about half my height, and thus commanded the roof", "Line_29": "and a slice of the interior of the cabin." }] }, "Lesson_0189": { "Name": "Lesson_0189", "Number": 189, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 23 - Page 188: The Ebb-Tide Runs", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "By this time the schooner and her little consort", "Line_02": "were gliding pretty swiftly through the water; indeed,", "Line_03": "we had already fetched up level with the camp fire.", "Line_04": "The ship was talking, as sailors say, loudly, treading", "Line_05": "the innumerable ripples with an incessant weltering", "Line_06": "splash; and until I got my eye above the window-sill", "Line_07": "I could not comprehend why the watchmen had taken", "Line_08": "no alarm. One glance, however, was sufficient; and", "Line_09": "it was only one glance that I durst take from that", "Line_10": "unsteady skiff. It showed me Hands and his companion", "Line_11": "locked together in deadly wrestle, each with a hand", "Line_12": "upon the other's throat.", "Line_13": "I dropped upon the thwart again, none too soon,", "Line_14": "for I was near overboard. I could see nothing for the", "Line_15": "moment, but these two furious, encrimsoned faces,", "Line_16": "swaying together under the smoky lamp; and I shut", "Line_17": "my eyes to let them grow once more familiar with", "Line_18": "the darkness.", "Line_19": "The endless ballad had come to an end at last,", "Line_20": "and the whole diminished company about the camp", "Line_21": "fire had broken into the chorus I had heard so often: —", "Line_22": "\"Fifteen men on the dead man's chest—", "Line_23": "Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!", "Line_24": "Drink and the devil had done for the rest—", "Line_25": "Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!\"", "Line_26": "I was just thinking how busy drink and the devil", "Line_27": "were at that very moment in the cabin of the Hispaniola,", "Line_28": "when I was surprised by a sudden lurch of the coracle.", "Line_29": "At the same moment she yawed sharply and seemed" }] }, "Lesson_0190": { "Name": "Lesson_0190", "Number": 190, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 23 - Page 189: The Ebb-Tide Runs", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "to change her course. The speed in the meantime", "Line_02": "had strangely increased.", "Line_03": "I opened my eyes at once. All round me were", "Line_04": "little ripples, combing over with a sharp, bristling", "Line_05": "sound and slightly phosphorescent. The Hispaniola", "Line_06": "herself, a few yards in whose wake I was still being", "Line_07": "whirled along, seemed to stagger in her course, and", "Line_08": "I saw her spars toss a little against the blackness of", "Line_09": "the night; nay, as I looked longer, I made sure she", "Line_10": "also was wheeling to the southward.", "Line_11": "I glanced over my shoulder, and my heart jumped", "Line_12": "against my ribs. There, right behind me, was the glow", "Line_13": "of the camp fire. The current had turned at right", "Line_14": "angles, sweeping round along with it the tall schooner", "Line_15": "and the little dancing coracle; ever quickening, ever", "Line_16": "bubbling higher, ever muttering louder, it went spinning", "Line_17": "through the narrows for the open sea.", "Line_18": "Suddenly the schooner in front of me gave a violent", "Line_19": "yaw, turning, perhaps, through twenty degrees; and", "Line_20": "almost at the same moment one shout followed", "Line_21": "another from on board; I could hear feet pounding", "Line_22": "on the companion ladder; and I knew that the two", "Line_23": "drunkards had at last been interrupted in their quarrel", "Line_24": "and awakened to a sense of their disaster.", "Line_25": "I lay down flat in the bottom of that wretched", "Line_26": "skiff, and devoutly recommended my spirit to its", "Line_27": "Maker. At the end of the straits, I made sure we", "Line_28": "must fall into some bar of raging breakers, where all", "Line_29": "my troubles would be ended speedily; and though I" }] }, "Lesson_0191": { "Name": "Lesson_0191", "Number": 191, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 23 - Page 190: The Ebb-Tide Runs", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "could, perhaps, bear to die, I could not bear to look", "Line_02": "upon my fate as it approached.", "Line_03": "So I must have lain for hours, continually beaten", "Line_04": "to and fro upon the billows, now and again wetted", "Line_05": "with flying sprays, and never ceasing to expect death", "Line_06": "at the next plunge. Gradually weariness grew upon", "Line_07": "me; a numbness, an occasional stupor, fell upon my", "Line_08": "mind even in the midst of my terrors; until sleep at", "Line_09": "last supervened, and in my sea-tossed coracle I lay and", "Line_10": "dreamed of home and the old \"Admiral Benbow.\"" }] }, "Lesson_0192": { "Name": "Lesson_0192", "Number": 192, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 24 - Page 191: The Cruise of the Coracle", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Chapter 24", "Line_02": "The Cruise of the Coracle", "Line_03": "It was broad day when I awoke, and found myself", "Line_04": "tossing at the south-west end of Treasure Island. The", "Line_05": "sun was up, but was still hid from me behind the great", "Line_06": "bulk of the Spy-glass, which on this side descended", "Line_07": "almost to the sea in formidable cliffs.", "Line_08": "Haulbowline Head and Mizzen-mast Hill were at", "Line_09": "my elbow; the hill bare and dark, the head bound with", "Line_10": "cliffs forty or fifty feet high, and fringed with great", "Line_11": "masses of fallen rock. I was scarce a quarter of a mile", "Line_12": "to seaward, and it was my first thought to paddle in and", "Line_13": "land.", "Line_14": "That notion was soon given over. Among the fallen", "Line_15": "rocks the breakers spouted and bellowed; loud rever-", "Line_16": "berations, heavy sprays flying and falling, succeeded one", "Line_17": "another from second to second; and I saw myself, if I", "Line_18": "ventured nearer, dashed to death upon the rough shore,", "Line_19": "or spending my strength in vain to scale the beetling", "Line_20": "crags.", "Line_21": "Nor was that all; for crawling together on flat tables", "Line_22": "of rock, or letting themselves drop into the sea with", "Line_23": "loud reports, I beheld huge slimy monsters—soft snails," }] }, "Lesson_0193": { "Name": "Lesson_0193", "Number": 193, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 24 - Page 192: The Cruise of the Coracle", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "as it were, of incredible bigness—two or three score", "Line_02": "of them together, making the rocks to echo with their", "Line_03": "barkings.", "Line_04": "I have understood since that they were sea lions,", "Line_05": "and entirely harmless. But the look of them, added to", "Line_06": "the difficulty of the shore and the high running of the", "Line_07": "surf, was more than enough to disgust me of that landing", "Line_08": "place. I felt willing rather to starve at sea than to", "Line_09": "confront such perils.", "Line_10": "In the meantime I had a better chance, as I supposed,", "Line_11": "before me. North of Haulbowline Head, the land runs", "Line_12": "in a long way, leaving, at low tide, a long stretch of", "Line_13": "yellow sand. To the north of that, again, there comes", "Line_14": "another cape—Cape of the Woods, as it was marked", "Line_15": "upon the chart—buried in tall green pines, which", "Line_16": "descended to the margin of the sea.", "Line_17": "I remembered what Silver had said about the current", "Line_18": "that sets northward along the whole west coast of", "Line_19": "Treasure Island; and seeing from my position that I was", "Line_20": "already under its influence, I preferred to leave Haulbow-", "Line_21": "line Head behind me, and reserve my strength for an", "Line_22": "attempt to land upon the kindlier-looking Cape of the", "Line_23": "Woods.", "Line_24": "There was a great, smooth swell upon the sea. The", "Line_25": "wind blowing steady and gentle from the south, there", "Line_26": "was no contrariety between that and the current, and the", "Line_27": "billows rose and fell unbroken.", "Line_28": "Had it been otherwise, I must long ago have", "Line_29": "perished; but as it was, it is surprising how easily" }] }, "Lesson_0194": { "Name": "Lesson_0194", "Number": 194, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 24 - Page 193: The Cruise of the Coracle", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "and securely my little and light boat could ride. Often,", "Line_02": "as I still lay at the bottom, and kept no more than an", "Line_03": "eye above the gunwale, I would see a big blue summit", "Line_04": "heaving close above me; yet the coracle would but bounce", "Line_05": "a little, dance as if on springs, and subside on the other", "Line_06": "side into the trough as lightly as a bird.", "Line_07": "I began after a little to grow very bold, and sat up", "Line_08": "to try my skill at paddling. But even a small change", "Line_09": "in the disposition of the weight will produce violent", "Line_10": "changes in the behaviour of a coracle. And I had", "Line_11": "hardly moved before the boat, giving up at once her", "Line_12": "gentle dancing movement, ran straight down a slope of", "Line_13": "water so steep that it made me giddy, and struck her", "Line_14": "nose, with a spout of spray, deep into the side of the", "Line_15": "next wave.", "Line_16": "I was drenched and terrified, and fell instantly back", "Line_17": "into my old position, whereupon the coracle seemed to", "Line_18": "find her head again, and led me as softly as before", "Line_19": "among the billows. It was plain she was not to be", "Line_20": "interfered with, and at that rate, since I could in no way", "Line_21": "influence her course, what hope had I left of reaching", "Line_22": "land?", "Line_23": "I began to be horribly frightened, but I kept my", "Line_24": "head, for all that. First, moving with all care, I", "Line_25": "gradually baled out the coracle with my sea-cap; then", "Line_26": "getting my eye once more above the gunwale, I set", "Line_27": "myself to study how it was she managed to slip so", "Line_28": "quietly through the rollers.", "Line_29": "I found each wave, instead of the big, smooth" }] }, "Lesson_0195": { "Name": "Lesson_0195", "Number": 195, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 24 - Page 194: The Cruise of the Coracle", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "glossy mountain it looks from shore, or from a vessel's", "Line_02": "deck, was for all the world like any range of hills on the", "Line_03": "dry land, full of peaks and smooth places and valleys.", "Line_04": "The coracle, left to herself, turning from side to side,", "Line_05": "threaded, so to speak, her way through these lower parts,", "Line_06": "and avoided the steep slopes and higher, toppling sum-", "Line_07": "mits of the wave.", "Line_08": "\"Well, now,\" thought I to myself, \"it is plain", "Line_09": "I must lie where I am, and not disturb the balance;", "Line_10": "but it is plain, also, that I can put the paddle over the", "Line_11": "side, and from time to time, in smooth places, give", "Line_12": "her a shove or two towards land.\" No sooner thought", "Line_13": "upon than done. There I lay on my elbows, in the", "Line_14": "most trying attitude, and every now and again gave a", "Line_15": "weak stroke or two to turn her head to shore.", "Line_16": "It was very tiring, and slow work, yet I did visibly", "Line_17": "gain ground; and, as we drew near the Cape of the", "Line_18": "Woods, though I saw I must infallibly miss that point,", "Line_19": "I had still made some hundred yards of easting. I was,", "Line_20": "indeed, close in. I could see the cool, green tree-tops", "Line_21": "swaying together in the breeze, and I felt sure I should", "Line_22": "make the next promontory without fail.", "Line_23": "It was high time, for I now began to be tortured", "Line_24": "with thirst. The glow of the sun from above, its", "Line_25": "thousandfold reflection from the waves, the sea-water", "Line_26": "that fell and dried upon me, caking my very lips with", "Line_27": "salt, combined to make my throat burn and my brain", "Line_28": "ache. The sight of the trees so near at hand had almost", "Line_29": "made me sick with longing; but the current had soon" }] }, "Lesson_0196": { "Name": "Lesson_0196", "Number": 196, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 24 - Page 195: The Cruise of the Coracle", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "carried me past the point; and, as the next reach of", "Line_02": "sea opened out, I beheld a sight that changed the nature", "Line_03": "of my thoughts.", "Line_04": "Right in front of me, not half a mile away, I", "Line_05": "beheld the Hispaniola under sail. I made sure, of", "Line_06": "course, that I should be taken; but I was so dis-", "Line_07": "tressed for want of water, that I scarce knew whether", "Line_08": "to be glad or sorry at the thought; and, long before", "Line_09": "I had come to a conclusion, surprise had taken entire", "Line_10": "possession of my mind, and I could do nothing but", "Line_11": "stare and wonder.", "Line_12": "The Hispaniola was under her main-sail and two jibs,", "Line_13": "and the beautiful white canvas shone in the sun like", "Line_14": "snow or silver. When I first sighted her, all her sails", "Line_15": "were drawing; she was lying a course about north-west;", "Line_16": "and I presumed the men on board were going round the", "Line_17": "island on their way back to the anchorage. Presently", "Line_18": "she began to fetch more and more to the westward, so", "Line_19": "that I thought they had sighted me and were going about", "Line_20": "in chase. At last, however, she fell right into the wind's", "Line_21": "eye, was taken dead aback, and stood there a while", "Line_22": "helpless, with her sails shivering.", "Line_23": "\"Clumsy fellows,\" said I; \"they must still be", "Line_24": "drunk as owls.\" And I thought how Captain Smollett", "Line_25": "would have set them skipping.", "Line_26": "Meanwhile, the schooner gradually fell off, and filled", "Line_27": "again upon another tack, sailed swiftly for a minute or", "Line_28": "so, and brought up once more dead in the wind's eye.", "Line_29": "Again and again was this repeated. To and fro; up and" }] }, "Lesson_0197": { "Name": "Lesson_0197", "Number": 197, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 24 - Page 196: The Cruise of the Coracle", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "clown, north, south, east, and west, the Hispaniola sailed", "Line_02": "by swoops and dashes, and at each repetition ended as", "Line_03": "she had begun, with idly-flapping canvas. It became", "Line_04": "plain to me that nobody was steering. And, if so, where", "Line_05": "were the men? Either they were dead drunk, or had", "Line_06": "deserted her, I thought, and perhaps if I could get on", "Line_07": "board, I might return the vessel to her captain.", "Line_08": "The current was bearing coracle and schooner south-", "Line_09": "ward at an equal rate. As for the latter's sailing, it", "Line_10": "was so wild and intermittent, and she hung each time so", "Line_11": "long in irons, that she certainly gained nothing, if she", "Line_12": "did not even lose. If only I dared to sit up and paddle,", "Line_13": "I made sure that I could overhaul her. The scheme had", "Line_14": "an air of adventure that inspired me, and the thought of", "Line_15": "the water breaker beside the fore companion doubled my", "Line_16": "growing courage.", "Line_17": "Up I got, was welcomed almost instantly by another", "Line_18": "cloud of spray, but this time stuck to my purpose; and", "Line_19": "set myself, with all my strength and caution, to paddle", "Line_20": "after the unsteered Hispaniola. Once I shipped a sea", "Line_21": "so heavy that I had to stop and bail, with my heart", "Line_22": "fluttering like a bird; but gradually I got into the way", "Line_23": "of the thing, and guided my coracle among the waves,", "Line_24": "with only now and then a blow upon her bows and a", "Line_25": "dash of foam in my face.", "Line_26": "I was now gaining rapidly on the schooner; I could", "Line_27": "see the brass glisten on the tiller as it banged about;", "Line_28": "and still no soul appeared upon her decks. I could not", "Line_29": "choose but suppose she was deserted. If not, the men" }] }, "Lesson_0198": { "Name": "Lesson_0198", "Number": 198, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 24 - Page 197: The Cruise of the Coracle", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "were lying drunk below, where I might batten them", "Line_02": "down, perhaps, and do what I chose with the ship.", "Line_03": "For some time she had been doing the worse thing", "Line_04": "possible for me—standing still. She headed nearly due", "Line_05": "south, yawing, of course, all the time. Each time she", "Line_06": "fell off her sails partly filled, and these brought her, in a", "Line_07": "moment, right to the wind again. I have said this was", "Line_08": "the worst thing possible for me; for helpless as she", "Line_09": "looked in this situation, with the canvas cracking like", "Line_10": "cannon, and the blocks trundling and banging on the", "Line_11": "deck, she still continued to run away from me, not only", "Line_12": "with the speed of the current, but by the whole amount", "Line_13": "of her leeway, which was naturally great.", "Line_14": "But now, at last, I had my chance. The breeze fell,", "Line_15": "for some seconds, very low, and the current gradually", "Line_16": "turning her, the Hispaniola revolved slowly round her", "Line_17": "centre, and at last presented me her stern, with the", "Line_18": "cabin window still gaping open, and the lamp over the", "Line_19": "table still burning on into the day. The main-sail", "Line_20": "hung drooped like a banner. 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I could see the waves", "Line_05": "boiling white under her forefoot. Immensely tall she", "Line_06": "looked to me from my low station in the coracle.", "Line_07": "And then, of a sudden, I began to comprehend. I", "Line_08": "had scarce time to think—scarce time to act and save", "Line_09": "myself. I was on the summit of one swell when the", "Line_10": "schooner came stooping over the next. The bowsprit", "Line_11": "was over my head. I sprang to my feet, and leaped,", "Line_12": "stamping the coracle under water. With one hand I", "Line_13": "caught the jib-boom, while my foot was lodged between", "Line_14": "the stay and the brace; and as I still clung there", "Line_15": "panting, a dull blow told me that the schooner had", "Line_16": "charged down upon and struck the coracle, and that I", "Line_17": "was left without retreat on the Hispaniola." }] }, "Lesson_0200": { "Name": "Lesson_0200", "Number": 200, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 25 - Page 199: Strike the Jolly Roger", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Chapter 25", "Line_02": "Strike the Jolly Roger", "Line_03": "I had scarce gained a position on the bowsprit, when", "Line_04": "the flying jib flapped and filled upon the other tack,", "Line_05": "with a report like a gun. The schooner trembled to her", "Line_06": "keel under the reverse; but next moment, the other sails", "Line_07": "still drawing, the jib flapped back again, and hung idle.", "Line_08": "This had nearly tossed me off into the sea; and now", "Line_09": "I lost no time, crawled back along the bowsprit, and", "Line_10": "tumbled head foremost on the deck.", "Line_11": "I was on the lee side of the forecastle, and the main-", "Line_12": "sail, which was still drawing, concealed from me a", "Line_13": "certain portion of the after-deck. Not a soul was to", "Line_14": "be seen. The planks, which had not been swabbed", "Line_15": "since the mutiny, bore the print of many feet; and an", "Line_16": "empty bottle, broken by the neck, tumbled to and fro", "Line_17": "like a live thing in the scuppers.", "Line_18": "Suddenly the Hispaniola came right into the wind.", "Line_19": "The jibs behind me cracked aloud; the rudder slammed", "Line_20": "to; the whole ship gave a sickening heave and shudder,", "Line_21": "and at the same moment the main-boom swung in-", "Line_22": "board, the sheet groaning in the blocks, and showed me", "Line_23": "the lee after-deck." }] }, "Lesson_0201": { "Name": "Lesson_0201", "Number": 201, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 25 - Page 200: Strike the Jolly Roger", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "There were the two watchmen, sure enough: red-", "Line_02": "cap on his back, as stiff as a handspike, with his", "Line_03": "arms stretched out like those of a crucifix, and his", "Line_04": "teeth showing through his open lips; Israel Hands", "Line_05": "propped against the bulwarks, his chin on his chest,", "Line_06": "his hands lying open before him on the deck, his face", "Line_07": "as white, under its tan, as a tallow candle.", "Line_08": "For a while the ship kept bucking and sidling like", "Line_09": "a vicious horse, the sails filling, now on one tack, now", "Line_10": "on another, and the boom swinging to and fro till the", "Line_11": "mast groaned aloud under the strain. Now and again,", "Line_12": "too, there would come a cloud of light sprays over the", "Line_13": "bulwark, and a heavy blow of the ship's bows against", "Line_14": "the swell: so much heavier weather was made of it", "Line_15": "by this great rigged ship than by my home-made,", "Line_16": "lop-sided coracle, now gone to the bottom of the", "Line_17": "sea.", "Line_18": "At every jump of the schooner, red-cap slipped to", "Line_19": "and fro; but—what was ghastly to behold—neither his", "Line_20": "attitude nor his fixed teeth-disclosing grin was anyway", "Line_21": "disturbed by this rough usage. At every jump, too,", "Line_22": "Hands appeared still more to sink into himself and", "Line_23": "settle down upon the deck, his feet sliding ever the", "Line_24": "farther out, and the whole body canting towards the", "Line_25": "stern, so that his face became, little by little, hid from", "Line_26": "me; and at last I could see nothing beyond his ear and", "Line_27": "the frayed ringlet of one whisker.", "Line_28": "At the same time, I observed, around both of them,", "Line_29": "splashes of dark blood upon the planks, and began to" }] }, "Lesson_0202": { "Name": "Lesson_0202", "Number": 202, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 25 - Page 201: Strike the Jolly Roger", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "feel sure that they had killed each other in their", "Line_02": "drunken wrath.", "Line_03": "While I was thus looking and wondering, in a calm", "Line_04": "moment, when the ship was still, Israel Hands turned", "Line_05": "partly round, and, with a low moan, writhed himself", "Line_06": "back to the position in which I had seen him first.", "Line_07": "The moan, which told of pain and deadly weakness,", "Line_08": "and the way in which his jaw hung open, went right", "Line_09": "to my heart. But when I remembered the talk I", "Line_10": "had overheard from the apple barrel, all pity left", "Line_11": "me.", "Line_12": "I walked aft until I reached the main-mast.", "Line_13": "\"Come aboard, Mr. Hands,\" I said, ironically.", "Line_14": "He rolled his eyes round heavily; but he was too", "Line_15": "far gone to express surprise. All he could do was to", "Line_16": "utter one word, \"Brandy.\"", "Line_17": "It occurred to me there was no time to lose; and,", "Line_18": "dodging the boom as it once more lurched across the", "Line_19": "deck, I slipped aft, and down the companion stairs into", "Line_20": "the cabin.", "Line_21": "It was such a scene of confusion as you can hardly", "Line_22": "fancy. All the lockfast places had been broken open in", "Line_23": "quest of the chart. The floor was thick with mud,", "Line_24": "where ruffians had sat down to drink or consult after", "Line_25": "wading in the marshes round their camp. The bulk-", "Line_26": "heads, all painted in clear white, and beaded round with", "Line_27": "gilt, bore a pattern of dirty hands. Dozens of empty", "Line_28": "bottles clinked together in corners to the rolling of the", "Line_29": "ship. One of the doctor's medical books lay open on" }] }, "Lesson_0203": { "Name": "Lesson_0203", "Number": 203, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 25 - Page 202: Strike the Jolly Roger", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "the table, half of the leaves gutted out, I suppose, for", "Line_02": "pipelights. In the midst of all this the lamp still cast", "Line_03": "a smoky glow, obscure and brown as umber.", "Line_04": "I went into the cellar; all the barrels were gone,", "Line_05": "and of the bottles a most surprising number had", "Line_06": "been drunk out and thrown away. Certainly, since the", "Line_07": "mutiny began, not a man of them could ever have been", "Line_08": "sober.", "Line_09": "Foraging about, I found a bottle with some brandy", "Line_10": "left, for Hands; and for myself I routed out some", "Line_11": "biscuit, some pickled fruits, a great bunch of raisins,", "Line_12": "and a piece of cheese. With these I came on deck, put", "Line_13": "down my own stock behind the rudder head, and well", "Line_14": "out of the coxswain's reach, went forward to the water-", "Line_15": "breaker, and had a good, deep drink of water, and then,", "Line_16": "and not till then, gave Hands the brandy.", "Line_17": "He must have drunk a gill before he took the bottle", "Line_18": "from his mouth.", "Line_19": "\"Aye,\" said he, \"by thunder, but I wanted some o'", "Line_20": "that!\"", "Line_21": "I had sat down already in my own corner and begun", "Line_22": "to eat.", "Line_23": "\"Much hurt?\" I asked him.", "Line_24": "He grunted, or, rather, I might say, he barked.", "Line_25": "\"If that doctor was aboard,\" he said, \"I'd be right", "Line_26": "enough in a couple of turns; but I don't have no man-", "Line_27": "ner of luck, you see, and that's what's the matter with", "Line_28": "me. As for that swab, he's good and dead, he is,\" he", "Line_29": "added, indicating the man with the red cap. \"He" }] }, "Lesson_0204": { "Name": "Lesson_0204", "Number": 204, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 25 - Page 203: Strike the Jolly Roger", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "warn't no seaman, anyhow. And where mought you", "Line_02": "have come from?\"", "Line_03": "\"Well,\" said I, \"I've come aboard to take posses-", "Line_04": "sion of this ship, Mr. Hands; and you'll please regard", "Line_05": "me as your captain until further notice.\"", "Line_06": "He looked at me sourly enough, but said nothing.", "Line_07": "Some of the colour had come back into his cheeks,", "Line_08": "though he still looked very sick, and still continued to", "Line_09": "slip out and settle down as the ship banged about.", "Line_10": "\"By-the-by,\" I continued, \"I can't have these", "Line_11": "colours, Mr. Hands; and, by your leave, I'll strike 'em.", "Line_12": "Better none than these.\"", "Line_13": "And, again dodging the boom, I ran to the colour", "Line_14": "lines, handed down their cursed black flag, and chucked", "Line_15": "it overboard.", "Line_16": "\"God save the king!\" said I, waving my cap;", "Line_17": "\"and there's an end to Captain Silver!\"", "Line_18": "He watched me keenly and slyly, his chin all the", "Line_19": "while on his breast.", "Line_20": "\"I reckon,\" he said at last—\"I reckon, Cap'n Haw-", "Line_21": "kins, you'll kind of want to get ashore, now. S'pose", "Line_22": "we talks.\"", "Line_23": "\"Why, yes,\" says I, \"with all my heart, Mr. Hands.", "Line_24": "Say on.\" And I went back to my meal with a good", "Line_25": "appetite.", "Line_26": "\"This man,\" he began, nodding feebly at the corpse", "Line_27": "—\"O'Brien were his name—a rank Irelander—this", "Line_28": "man and me got the canvas on her, meaning for to sail", "Line_29": "her back. Well, he's dead now, he is—as dead as bilge" }] }, "Lesson_0205": { "Name": "Lesson_0205", "Number": 205, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 25 - Page 204: Strike the Jolly Roger", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "and who's to sail this ship, I don't see. Without I", "Line_02": "gives you a hint, you aint that man, as far's I can tell.", "Line_03": "Now, look here, you gives me food and drink, and a old", "Line_04": "scarf or ankecher to tie my wound up, you do; and I'll", "Line_05": "tell you how to sail her; and that's about square all", "Line_06": "round, I take it.", "Line_07": "\"I'll tell you one thing,\" says I: \"I'm not going", "Line_08": "back to Captain Kidd's anchorage. I mean to get into", "Line_09": "North Inlet, and beach her quietly there.\"", "Line_10": "\"To be sure you did,\" he cried. \"Why, I aint sich", "Line_11": "an infernal lubber, after all. I can see, can't I? I've", "Line_12": "tried my fling, I have, and I've lost, and it's you has", "Line_13": "the wind of me. North Inlet? Why, I haven't no", "Line_14": "ch'ice, not I! I'd help you sail her up to Execution", "Line_15": "Dock, by thunder! so I would.\"", "Line_16": "Well, as it seemed to me, there was some sense in", "Line_17": "this. We struck our bargain on the spot. In three", "Line_18": "minutes I had the Hispaniola sailing easily before the", "Line_19": "wind along the coast of Treasure Island, with good", "Line_20": "hopes of turning the northern point ere noon, and", "Line_21": "beating down again as far as North Inlet before high", "Line_22": "water, when we might beach her safely, and wait till", "Line_23": "the subsiding tide permitted us to land.", "Line_24": "Then I lashed the tiller and went below to my own", "Line_25": "chest, where I got a soft silk handkerchief of my", "Line_26": "mother's. With this, and with my aid, Hands bound", "Line_27": "up the great bleeding stab he had received in the thigh,", "Line_28": "and after he had eaten a little and had a swallow or two", "Line_29": "more of the brandy, he began to pick up visibly, sat" }] }, "Lesson_0206": { "Name": "Lesson_0206", "Number": 206, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 25 - Page 205: Strike the Jolly Roger", "Lines": [{ "Line_30": "straighter up, spoke louder and clearer, and looked in", "Line_31": "every way another man.", "Line_32": "The breeze served us admirably. We skimmed before", "Line_33": "it like a bird, the coast of the island flashing by, and the", "Line_34": "view changing every minute. Soon we were past the", "Line_35": "high lands and bowling beside low, sandy country,", "Line_36": "sparsely dotted with dwarf pines, and soon we were", "Line_37": "beyond that again, and had turned the corner of the", "Line_38": "rocky hill that ends the island on the north.", "Line_39": "I was greatly elated with my new command, and", "Line_40": "pleased with the bright, sunshiny weather and these", "Line_41": "different prospects of the coast. I had now plenty of", "Line_42": "water and good things to eat, and my conscience, which", "Line_43": "had smitten me hard for my desertion, was quieted by", "Line_44": "the great conquest I had made. I should, I think,", "Line_45": "have had nothing left me to desire but for the eyes of the", "Line_46": "coxswain as they followed me derisively about the deck,", "Line_47": "and the odd smile that appeared continually on his face.", "Line_48": "It was a smile that had in it something both of pain and", "Line_49": "weakness—a haggard, old man's smile; but there was,", "Line_50": "besides that, a grain of derision, a shadow of treachery,", "Line_51": "in his expression as he craftily watched, and watched,", "Line_52": "and watched me at my work." }] }, "Lesson_0207": { "Name": "Lesson_0207", "Number": 207, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 26 - Page 206: Israel Hands", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Chapter 26", "Line_02": "Israel Hands", "Line_03": "The wind, serving us to a desire, now hauled into the", "Line_04": "west. We could run so much the easier from the north-", "Line_05": "east corner of the island to the mouth of the North Inlet.", "Line_06": "Only, as we had no power to anchor, and dared not beach", "Line_07": "her till the tide had flowed a good deal farther, time", "Line_08": "hung on our hands. The coxswain told me how to", "Line_09": "lay the ship to; after a good many trials I succeeded,", "Line_10": "and we both sat in silence, over another meal.", "Line_11": "\"Cap'n,\" said he, at length, with that same un-", "Line_12": "comfortable smile, \"here's my old shipmate, O'Brien;", "Line_13": "s'pose you was to heave him overboard. I aint par-", "Line_14": "ticular as a rule, and I don't take no blame for settling", "Line_15": "his hash; but I don't reckon him ornamental, now,", "Line_16": "do you?\"", "Line_17": "\"I'm not strong enough, and I don't like the job;", "Line_18": "and there he lies, for me,\" said I.", "Line_19": "\"This here's an unlucky ship—this Hispaniola,", "Line_20": "Jim,\" he went on, blinking. \"There's a power of men", "Line_21": "been killed in this Hispaniola—a sight o' poor seamen", "Line_22": "dead and gone since you and me took ship to Bristol. I", "Line_23": "never seen sich dirty luck, not I. There was this here" }] }, "Lesson_0208": { "Name": "Lesson_0208", "Number": 208, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 26 - Page 207: Israel Hands", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "\"O'Brien, now—he's dead, aint he? Well, now, I'm no", "Line_02": "scholar, and you're a lad as can read and figure; and,", "Line_03": "to put it straight, do you take it as a dead man is dead", "Line_04": "for good, or do he come alive again?\"", "Line_05": "\"You can kill the body, Mr. Hands, but not the", "Line_06": "spirit; you must know that already,\" I replied.", "Line_07": "\"O'Brien there is in another world, and maybe watch-", "Line_08": "ing us.\"", "Line_09": "\"Ah!\" says he. \"Well, that's unfort'nate—appears", "Line_10": "as if killing parties was a waste of time. How-", "Line_11": "somever, sperrits don't reckon for much, by what I've", "Line_12": "seen. I'll chance it with the sperrits, Jim. And now,", "Line_13": "you've spoke up free, and I'll take it kind if you'd", "Line_14": "step down into that there cabin and get me a—well,", "Line_15": "a—shiver my timbers! I can't hit the name on 't;", "Line_16": "well, you get me a bottle of wine, Jim—this here", "Line_17": "brandy's too strong for my head.\"", "Line_18": "Now, the coxswain's hesitation seemed to be un-", "Line_19": "natural; and as for the notion of his preferring wine", "Line_20": "to brandy, I entirely disbelieved it. The whole story", "Line_21": "was a pretext. He wanted me to leave the deck—so", "Line_22": "much was plain; but with what purpose I could in no", "Line_23": "way imagine. His eyes never met mine; they kept", "Line_24": "wandering to and fro, up and down, now with a look", "Line_25": "to the sky, now with a flitting glance upon the dead", "Line_26": "O'Brien. All the time he kept smiling, and putting", "Line_27": "his tongue out in the most guilty, embarrassed manner,", "Line_28": "so that a child could have told that he was bent on", "Line_29": "some deception. I was prompt with my answer, however." }] }, "Lesson_0209": { "Name": "Lesson_0209", "Number": 209, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 26 - Page 208: Israel Hands", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "for I saw where my advantage lay; and that", "Line_02": "with a fellow so densely stupid I could easily conceal", "Line_03": "my suspicions to the end.", "Line_04": "\"Some wine?\" I said. \"Far better. Will you", "Line_05": "have white or red?\"", "Line_06": "\"Well, I reckon it's about the blessed same to me,", "Line_07": "shipmate,\" he replied; \"so it's strong, and plenty of", "Line_08": "it, what's the odds?\"", "Line_09": "\"All right,\" I answered. \"I'll bring you port,", "Line_10": "Mr. Hands. But I'll have to dig for it.\"", "Line_11": "With that I scuttled down the companion with all", "Line_12": "the noise I could, slipped off my shoes, ran quietly", "Line_13": "along the sparred gallery, mounted the forecastle ladder,", "Line_14": "and popped my head out of the fore companion. I knew", "Line_15": "he would not expect to see me there; yet I took every", "Line_16": "precaution possible; and certainly the worst of my", "Line_17": "suspicions proved too true.", "Line_18": "He had risen from his position to his hands and", "Line_19": "knees; and, though his leg obviously hurt him pretty", "Line_20": "sharply when he moved—for I could hear him stifle", "Line_21": "a groan—yet it was at a good, rattling rate that he", "Line_22": "trailed himself across the deck. In half a minute he", "Line_23": "had reached the port scuppers, and picked, out of a", "Line_24": "coil of rope, a long knife, or rather a short dirk, dis-", "Line_25": "coloured to the hilt with blood. He looked upon it", "Line_26": "for a moment, thrusting forth his under jaw, tried", "Line_27": "the point upon his hand, and then, hastily concealing", "Line_28": "it in the bosom of his jacket, trundled back again", "Line_29": "into his old place against the bulwark." }] }, "Lesson_0210": { "Name": "Lesson_0210", "Number": 210, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 26 - Page 209: Israel Hands", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "This was all that I required to know. Israel", "Line_02": "could move about; he was now armed; and if he", "Line_03": "had been at so much trouble to get rid of me, it was", "Line_04": "plain that I was meant to be the victim. What he", "Line_05": "would do afterwards—whether he would try to crawl", "Line_06": "right across the island from North Inlet to the", "Line_07": "camp among the swamps, or whether he would fire", "Line_08": "Long Tom, trusting that his own comrades might", "Line_09": "come first to help him, was, of course, more than I", "Line_10": "could say.", "Line_11": "Yet I felt sure that I could trust him in one point,", "Line_12": "since in that our interests jumped together, and that", "Line_13": "was in the disposition of the schooner. We both", "Line_14": "desired to have her stranded safe enough, in a sheltered", "Line_15": "place, and so that, when the time came, she could be", "Line_16": "got off again with as little labour and danger as might", "Line_17": "be; and until that was done I considered that my", "Line_18": "life would certainly be spared.", "Line_19": "While I was thus turning the business over in", "Line_20": "my mind, I had not been idle with my body. I had", "Line_21": "stolen back to the cabin, slipped once more into my", "Line_22": "shoes, and laid my hand at random on a bottle of", "Line_23": "wine, and now, with this for an excuse, I made my", "Line_24": "re-appearance on the deck.", "Line_25": "Hands lay as I had left him, all fallen together in", "Line_26": "a bundle, and with his eyelids lowered, as though he", "Line_27": "were too weak to bear the light. He looked up,", "Line_28": "however, at my coming, knocked the neck off the", "Line_29": "bottle, like a man who had done the same thing" }] }, "Lesson_0211": { "Name": "Lesson_0211", "Number": 211, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 26 - Page 210: Israel Hands", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "often, and took a good swig, with his favourite toast", "Line_02": "of \"Here's luck!\" Then he lay quiet for a little,", "Line_03": "and then, pulling out a stick of tobacco, begged me", "Line_04": "to cut him a quid.", "Line_05": "\"Cut me a junk o' that,\" says he, \"for I haven't", "Line_06": "no knife, and hardly strength enough, so be as I", "Line_07": "had. Ah, Jim, Jim, I reckon I've missed stays! Cut", "Line_08": "me a quid, as '11 likely be the last, lad; for I'm for", "Line_09": "my long home, and no mistake.\"", "Line_10": "\"Well,\" said I, \"I'll cut you some tobacco; but", "Line_11": "if I was you and thought myself so badly, I would", "Line_12": "go to my prayers, like a Christian man.\"", "Line_13": "\"Why?\" said he. \"Now, you tell me why.\"", "Line_14": "\"Why?\" I cried. \"You were asking me just", "Line_15": "now about the dead. You've broken your trust;", "Line_16": "you've lived in sin and lies and blood; there's a man", "Line_17": "you killed lying at your feet this moment; and you", "Line_18": "ask me why! For God's mercy, Mr. Hands, that's", "Line_19": "why.\"", "Line_20": "I spoke with a little heat, thinking of the bloody", "Line_21": "dirk he had hidden in his pocket, and designed, in his", "Line_22": "ill thoughts, to end me with. He, for his part, took a", "Line_23": "great draught of the wine, and spoke with the most", "Line_24": "unusual solemnity.", "Line_25": "\"For thirty years,\" he said, \"I've sailed the seas,", "Line_26": "and seen good and bad, better and worse, fair weather", "Line_27": "and foul, provisions running out, knives going, and", "Line_28": "what not. Well, now I tell you, I never seen good", "Line_29": "come o' goodness yet. Him as strikes first is my" }] }, "Lesson_0212": { "Name": "Lesson_0212", "Number": 212, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 26 - Page 211: Israel Hands", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "fancy; dead men don't bite; them's my views—amen,", "Line_02": "so be it. And now, you look here,\" he added, suddenly", "Line_03": "changing his tone, \"we've had about enough of this", "Line_04": "foolery. The tide's made good enough by now. You", "Line_05": "just take my orders, Cap'n Hawkins, and we'll sail slap", "Line_06": "in and be done with it.\"", "Line_07": "All told, we had scarce two miles to run; but the", "Line_08": "navigation was delicate, the entrance to this northern", "Line_09": "anchorage was not only narrow and shoal, but lay east", "Line_10": "and west, so that the schooner must be nicely handled", "Line_11": "to be got in. I think I was a good, prompt subaltern,", "Line_12": "and I am very sure that Hands was an excellent pilot;", "Line_13": "for we went about and about, and dodged in, shaving", "Line_14": "the banks, with a certainty and a neatness that were a", "Line_15": "pleasure to behold.", "Line_16": "Scarcely had we passed the heads before the land", "Line_17": "closed around us. The shores of North Inlet were as", "Line_18": "thickly wooded as those of the southern anchorage; but", "Line_19": "the space was longer and narrower, and more like, what", "Line_20": "in truth it was, the estuary of a river. Right before us,", "Line_21": "at the southern end, we saw the wreck of a ship in the", "Line_22": "last stages of dilapidation. It had been a great vessel", "Line_23": "of three masts, but had lain so long exposed to the", "Line_24": "injuries of the weather, that it was hung about with great", "Line_25": "webs of dripping seaweed, and on the deck of it shore", "Line_26": "bushes had taken root, and now nourished thick with", "Line_27": "flowers. It was a sad sight, but it showed us that the", "Line_28": "anchorage was calm.", "Line_29": "\"Now,\" said Hands, \"look there; there's a pet bit" }] }, "Lesson_0213": { "Name": "Lesson_0213", "Number": 213, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 26 - Page 212: Israel Hands", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "for to beach a ship in. Fine flat sand, never a catspaw,", "Line_02": "trees all around of it, and flowers a-blowing like a", "Line_03": "garding on that old ship.\"", "Line_04": "\"And once beached,\" I inquired, \"how shall we get", "Line_05": "her off again?\"", "Line_06": "\"Why, so,\" he replied:", "Line_07": "\"you take a line ashore", "Line_08": "there on the other side at low water: take a turn about", "Line_09": "one o' them big pines; bring it back, take a turn round", "Line_10": "the capstan, and lie-to for the tide. Come high water,", "Line_11": "all hands take a pull upon the line, and off she comes as", "Line_12": "sweet as natur'. And now, boy, you stand by. We're", "Line_13": "near the bit now, and she's too much way on her.", "Line_14": "Starboard a little—so—steady—starboard—larboard a", "Line_15": "little—steady—steady!\"", "Line_16": "So he issued his commands, which I breathlessly", "Line_17": "obeyed; till, all of a sudden, he cried, \"Now, my", "Line_18": "hearty, luff!\" And I put the helm hard up, and the", "Line_19": "Hispaniola swung round rapidly, and ran stem on for", "Line_20": "the low wooded shore.", "Line_21": "The excitement of these last manoeuvres had some-", "Line_22": "what interfered with the watch I had kept hitherto,", "Line_23": "sharply enough, upon the coxswain. Even then I was", "Line_24": "still so much interested, waiting for the ship to touch,", "Line_25": "that I had quite forgot the peril that hung over my", "Line_26": "head, and stood craning over the starboard bulwarks and", "Line_27": "watching the ripples spreading wide before the bows. I", "Line_28": "might have fallen without a struggle for my life, had", "Line_29": "not a sudden disquietude seized upon me, and made me", "Line_30": "turn my head. Perhaps I had heard a creak, or seen" }] }, "Lesson_0214": { "Name": "Lesson_0214", "Number": 214, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 26 - Page 213: Israel Hands", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "his shadow moving with the tail of my eye; per-", "Line_02": "haps it was an instinct like a cat's; but, sure", "Line_03": "enough, when I looked round, there was Hands,", "Line_04": "already half-way towards me, with the dirk in his", "Line_05": "right hand.", "Line_06": "We must both have cried out aloud when our eyes", "Line_07": "met; but while mine was the shrill cry of terror, his", "Line_08": "was a roar of fury like a charging bull's. At the same", "Line_09": "instant he threw himself forward, and I leapt sideways", "Line_10": "towards the bows. As I did so, I let go of the tiller,", "Line_11": "which sprang sharp to leeward; and I think this saved", "Line_12": "my life, for it struck Hands across the chest, and stopped", "Line_13": "him, for the moment, dead.", "Line_14": "Before he could recover, I was safe out of the", "Line_15": "corner where he had me trapped, with all the deck to", "Line_16": "dodge about. Just forward of the mainmast I stopped,", "Line_17": "drew a pistol from my pocket, took a cool aim, though", "Line_18": "he had already turned and was once more coming di-", "Line_19": "rectly after me, and drew the trigger. The hammer", "Line_20": "fell, but there followed neither flash nor sound; the", "Line_21": "priming was useless with sea water. I cursed myself", "Line_22": "for my neglect. Why had not I, long before, reprimed", "Line_23": "and reloaded my only weapons? Then I should not", "Line_24": "have been as now, a mere fleeing sheep before this", "Line_25": "butcher.", "Line_26": "Wounded as he was, it was wonderful how fast he", "Line_27": "could move, his grizzled hair tumbling over his face, and", "Line_28": "his face itself as red as a red ensign with his haste and", "Line_29": "fury. I had no time to try my other pistol, nor, indeed." }] }, "Lesson_0215": { "Name": "Lesson_0215", "Number": 215, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 26 - Page 214: Israel Hands", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "much inclination, for I was sure it would be useless.", "Line_02": "One thing I saw plainly: I must not simply retreat", "Line_03": "before him, or he would speedily hold me boxed into the", "Line_04": "bows, as a moment since he had so nearly boxed me in", "Line_05": "the stern. Once so caught, and nine or ten inches of", "Line_06": "the blood-stained dirk would be my last experience on", "Line_07": "this side of eternity. I placed my palms against the", "Line_08": "mainmast, which was of a goodish bigness, and waited,", "Line_09": "every nerve upon the stretch.", "Line_10": "Seeing that I meant to dodge, he also paused; and", "Line_11": "a moment or two passed in feints on his part, and", "Line_12": "corresponding movements upon mine. It was such a", "Line_13": "game as I had often played at home about the rocks of", "Line_14": "Black Hill Cove; but never before, you may be sure,", "Line_15": "with such a wildly beating heart as now. Still, as I", "Line_16": "say, it was a boy's game, and I thought I could hold", "Line_17": "my own at it, against an elderly seaman with a wounded", "Line_18": "thigh. 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Quick as thought,", "Line_12": "I sprang into the mizzen shrouds, rattled up hand over", "Line_13": "hand, and did not draw a breath till I was seated on the", "Line_14": "cross-trees.", "Line_15": "I had been saved by being prompt; the dirk had", "Line_16": "struck not half a foot below me, as I pursued my upward", "Line_17": "flight; and there stood Israel Hands with his mouth", "Line_18": "open and his face upturned to mine, a perfect statue", "Line_19": "of surprise and disappointment.", "Line_20": "Now that I had a moment to myself, I lost no time", "Line_21": "in changing the priming of my pistol, and then, having", "Line_22": "one ready for service, and to make assurance doubly", "Line_23": "sure, I proceeded to draw the load of the other, and", "Line_24": "recharge it afresh from the beginning.", "Line_25": "My new employment struck Hands all of a heap;", "Line_26": "he began to see the dice going against him; and after", "Line_27": "an obvious hesitation, he also hauled himself heavily", "Line_28": "into the shrouds, and, with the dirk in his teeth, began", "Line_29": "slowly and painfully to mount. It cost him no end of" }] }, "Lesson_0217": { "Name": "Lesson_0217", "Number": 217, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 26 - Page 216: Israel Hands", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "time and groans to haul his wounded leg behind", "Line_02": "him; and I had quietly finished my arrangements", "Line_03": "before he was much more than a third of the way", "Line_04": "up. Then, with a pistol in either hand, I addressed", "Line_05": "him.", "Line_06": "\"One more step, Mr. Hands,\" said I, \"and I'll", "Line_07": "blow your brains out! Dead men don't bite, you", "Line_08": "know,\" I added, with a chuckle.", "Line_09": "He stopped instantly. I could see by the working", "Line_10": "of his face that he was trying to think, and the pro-", "Line_11": "cess was so slow and laborious that, in my new-found", "Line_12": "security, I laughed aloud. At last, with a swallow", "Line_13": "or two, he spoke, his face still wearing the same ex-", "Line_14": "pression of extreme perplexity. In order to speak he", "Line_15": "had to take the dagger from his mouth, but, in all else,", "Line_16": "he remained unmoved.", "Line_17": "\"Jim,\" says he, \"I reckon we're fouled, you and", "Line_18": "me, and we'll have to sign articles. I'd have had you", "Line_19": "but for that there lurch: but I don't have no luck, not", "Line_20": "I; and I reckon I'll have to strike, which comes hard,", "Line_21": "you see, for a master mariner to a ship's younker like", "Line_22": "you, Jim.\"", "Line_23": "I was drinking in his words and smiling away, as", "Line_24": "conceited as a cock upon a wall, when, all in a breath,", "Line_25": "back went his right hand over his shoulder. Something", "Line_26": "sang like an arrow through the air; I felt a blow and", "Line_27": "then a sharp pang, and there I was pinned by the", "Line_28": "shoulder to the mast. In the horrid pain and surprise", "Line_29": "of the moment—I scarce can say it was by my own" }] }, "Lesson_0218": { "Name": "Lesson_0218", "Number": 218, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 26 - Page 217: Israel Hands", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "volition, and I am sure it was without a conscious aim-", "Line_02": "both my pistols went off, and both escaped out of my", "Line_03": "hands. They did not fall alone; with a choked cry, the", "Line_04": "coxswain loosed his grasp upon the shrouds, and plunged", "Line_05": "head first into the water." }] }, "Lesson_0219": { "Name": "Lesson_0219", "Number": 219, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 27 - Page 218: Pieces of Eight", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Chapter 27", "Line_02": "Pieces of Eight", "Line_03": "Owing to the cant of the vessel, the masts hung far out", "Line_04": "over the water, and from my perch on the cross-trees", "Line_05": "I had nothing below me but the surface of the bay.", "Line_06": "Hands, who was not so far up, was, in consequence, nearer", "Line_07": "to the ship, and fell between me and the bulwarks. He", "Line_08": "rose once to the surface in a lather of foam and blood,", "Line_09": "and then sank again for good. As the water settled, I", "Line_10": "could see him lying huddled together on the clean,", "Line_11": "bright sand in the shadow of the vessel's sides. A fish", "Line_12": "or two whipped past his body. Sometimes, by the", "Line_13": "quivering of the water, he appeared to move a little, as", "Line_14": "if he were trying to rise. But he was dead enough, for", "Line_15": "all that, being both shot and drowned, and was food for", "Line_16": "fish in the very place where he had designed my", "Line_17": "slaughter.", "Line_18": "I was no sooner certain of this than I began to feel", "Line_19": "sick, faint, and terrified. The hot blood was running", "Line_20": "over my back and chest. The dirk, where it had pinned", "Line_21": "my shoulder to the mast, seemed to burn like a hot iron;", "Line_22": "yet it was not so much these real sufferings that dis-", "Line_23": "tressed me, for these, it seemed to me, I could bear" }] }, "Lesson_0220": { "Name": "Lesson_0220", "Number": 220, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 27 - Page 219: Pieces of Eight", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "without a murmur; it was the horror I had upon my", "Line_02": "mind of falling from the cross-trees into that still green", "Line_03": "water, beside the body of the coxswain.", "Line_04": "I clung with both hands till my nails ached, and I", "Line_05": "shut my eyes as if to cover up the peril. Gradually my", "Line_06": "mind came back again, my pulses quieted down to a", "Line_07": "more natural time, and I was once more in possession of", "Line_08": "myself.", "Line_09": "It was my first thought to pluck forth the dirk; but", "Line_10": "either it stuck too hard or my nerve failed me; and I", "Line_11": "desisted with a violent shudder. Oddly enough, that", "Line_12": "very shudder did the business. The knife, in fact, had", "Line_13": "come the nearest in the world to missing me altogether;", "Line_14": "it held me by a mere pinch of skin, and this the shudder", "Line_15": "tore away. The blood ran down the faster, to be sure;", "Line_16": "but I was my own master again, and only tacked to the", "Line_17": "mast by my coat and shirt.", "Line_18": "These last I broke through with a sudden jerk, and", "Line_19": "then regained the deck by the starboard shrouds. For", "Line_20": "nothing in the world would I have again ventured,", "Line_21": "shaken as I was, upon the overhanging port shrouds,", "Line_22": "from which Israel had so lately fallen.", "Line_23": "I went below, and did what I could for my wound;", "Line_24": "it pained me a good deal, and still bled freely; but it", "Line_25": "was neither deep nor dangerous, nor did it greatly gall", "Line_26": "me when I used my arm. Then I looked around me,", "Line_27": "and as the ship was now, in a sense, my own, I began", "Line_28": "to think of clearing it from its last passenger—the dead", "Line_29": "man, O'Brien." }] }, "Lesson_0221": { "Name": "Lesson_0221", "Number": 221, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 27 - Page 220: Pieces of Eight", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "He had pitched, as I have said, against the bulwarks,", "Line_02": "where he lay like some horrible, ungainly sort of puppet;", "Line_03": "life-size, indeed, but how different from life's colour or", "Line_04": "life's comeliness! In that position, I could easily", "Line_05": "have my way with him; and as the habit of tragical", "Line_06": "adventures had worn off almost all my terror for the dead,", "Line_07": "I took him by the waist as if he had been a sack of bran,", "Line_08": "and, with one good heave, tumbled him overboard. He", "Line_09": "went in with a sounding plunge; the red cap came off,", "Line_10": "and remained floating on the surface; and as soon as the", "Line_11": "splash subsided, I could see him and Israel lying side by", "Line_12": "side, both wavering with the tremulous movement of the", "Line_13": "water. O'Brien, though still quite a young man, was", "Line_14": "very bald. There he lay, with that bald head across", "Line_15": "the knees of the man who had killed him, and the", "Line_16": "quick fishes steering to and fro over both.", "Line_17": "I was now alone upon the ship; the tide had just", "Line_18": "turned. The sun was within so few degrees of setting", "Line_19": "that already the shadow of the pines upon the western", "Line_20": "shore began to reach right across the anchorage, and", "Line_21": "fall in patterns on the deck. The evening breeze had", "Line_22": "sprung up, and though it was well warded off by", "Line_23": "the hill with the two peaks upon the east, the cordage", "Line_24": "had begun to sing a little softly to itself and the idle", "Line_25": "sails to rattle to and fro.", "Line_26": "I began to see a danger to the ship. The jibs", "Line_27": "I speedily doused and brought tumbling to the deck;", "Line_28": "but the main-sail was a harder matter. Of course,", "Line_29": "when the schooner canted over, the boom had swung" }] }, "Lesson_0222": { "Name": "Lesson_0222", "Number": 222, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 27 - Page 221: Pieces of Eight", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "out-board, and the cap of it and a foot or two of", "Line_02": "sail hung even under water. I thought this made it", "Line_03": "still more dangerous; yet the strain was so heavy that", "Line_04": "I half feared to meddle. At last, I got my knife and", "Line_05": "cut the halyards. The peak dropped instantly, a great", "Line_06": "belly of loose canvas floated broad upon the water;", "Line_07": "and since, pull as I liked, I could not budge the", "Line_08": "downhall; that was the extent of what I could", "Line_09": "accomplish. For the rest, the Hispaniola must trust", "Line_10": "to luck, like myself.", "Line_11": "By this time the whole anchorage had fallen into", "Line_12": "shadow—the last rays, I remember, falling through", "Line_13": "a glade of the wood, and shining bright as jewels, on", "Line_14": "the flowery mantle of the wreck. It began to be chill;", "Line_15": "the tide was rapidly fleeting seaward, the schooner", "Line_16": "settling more and more on her beam-ends.", "Line_17": "I scrambled forward and looked over. It seemed", "Line_18": "shallow enough, and holding the cut hawser in both", "Line_19": "hands for a last security, I let myself drop softly", "Line_20": "overboard. 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I had", "Line_02": "nothing nearer my fancy than to get home to the", "Line_03": "stockade and boast of my achievements. Possibly I", "Line_04": "might be blamed a bit for my truantry, but the re-", "Line_05": "capture of the Hispaniola was a clenching answer, and", "Line_06": "I hoped that even Captain Smollett would confess I", "Line_07": "had not lost my time.", "Line_08": "So thinking, and in famous spirits, I began to set", "Line_09": "my face homeward for the block-house and my com-", "Line_10": "panions. I remembered that the most easterly of the", "Line_11": "rivers which drain into Captain Kidd's anchorage ran", "Line_12": "from the two-peaked hill upon my left; and I bent", "Line_13": "my course in that direction that I might pass the", "Line_14": "stream while it was small. The wood was pretty open,", "Line_15": "and keeping along the lower spurs, I had soon turned", "Line_16": "the corner of that hill, and not long after waded to the", "Line_17": "mid-calf across the water-course.", "Line_18": "This brought me near to where I had encountered", "Line_19": "Ben Gunn, the maroon; and I walked more circumspectly,", "Line_20": "keeping an eye on every side. The dusk had come nigh", "Line_21": "hand completely, and, as I opened out the cleft between", "Line_22": "the two peaks, I became aware of a wavering glow", "Line_23": "against the sky, where, as I judged, the man of the", "Line_24": "island was cooking his supper before a roaring fire.", "Line_25": "And yet I wondered, in my heart, that he should show", "Line_26": "himself so careless. For if I could see this radiance,", "Line_27": "might it not reach the eyes of Silver himself where", "Line_28": "he camped upon the shore among the marshes?", "Line_29": "Gradually the night fell blacker; it was all I could" }] }, "Lesson_0224": { "Name": "Lesson_0224", "Number": 224, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 27 - Page 223: Pieces of Eight", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "do to guide myself even roughly towards my destination;", "Line_02": "the double hill behind me and the Spy-glass on my right", "Line_03": "hand loomed faint and fainter; the stars were few and", "Line_04": "pale; and in the low ground where I wandered I kept", "Line_05": "tripping among bushes and rolling into sandy pits.", "Line_06": "Suddenly a kind of brightness fell about me. I", "Line_07": "looked up; a pale glimmer of moonbeams had alighted", "Line_08": "on the summit of the Spy-glass, and soon after I saw", "Line_09": "something broad and silvery moving low down behind", "Line_10": "the trees, and knew the moon had risen.", "Line_11": "With this to help me, I passed rapidly over what", "Line_12": "remained to me of my journey; and, sometimes walking,", "Line_13": "sometimes running, impatiently drew near to the", "Line_14": "stockade. Yet, as I began to thread the grove that", "Line_15": "lies before it, I was not so thoughtless but that I", "Line_16": "slacked my pace and went a trine warily. It would", "Line_17": "have been a poor end of my adventures to get shot down", "Line_18": "by my own party in mistake.", "Line_19": "The moon was climbing higher and higher; its", "Line_20": "light began to fall here and there in masses through", "Line_21": "the more open districts of the wood; and right in front", "Line_22": "of me a glow of a different colour appeared among the", "Line_23": "trees. It was red and hot, and now and again it was a", "Line_24": "little darkened—as it were the embers of a bonfire", "Line_25": "smouldering.", "Line_26": "For the life of me, I could not think what it might-", "Line_27": "be.", "Line_28": "At last I came right down upon the borders of the", "Line_29": "clearing. 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It had not been our way to", "Line_11": "build great fires; we were, indeed, by the captain's", "Line_12": "orders, somewhat niggardly of firewood; and I began", "Line_13": "to fear that something had gone wrong while I was", "Line_14": "absent.", "Line_15": "I stole round by the eastern end, keeping close in", "Line_16": "shadow, and at a convenient place, where the darkness", "Line_17": "was thickest, crossed the palisade.", "Line_18": "To make assurance surer, I got upon my hands and", "Line_19": "knees, and crawled, without a sound, towards the corner", "Line_20": "of the house. As I drew nearer, my heart was suddenly and", "Line_21": "greatly lightened. It is not a pleasant noise in itself, and I", "Line_22": "have often complained of it at other times; but just then", "Line_23": "it was like music to hear my friends snoring together", "Line_24": "so loud and peaceful in their sleep. The sea cry of the", "Line_25": "watch, that beautiful \"All's well,\" never fell more", "Line_26": "reassuringly on my ear.", "Line_27": "In the meantime, there was no doubt of one thing;", "Line_28": "they kept an infamous bad watch. If it had been Silver", "Line_29": "and his lads that were now creeping in on them, not a" }] }, "Lesson_0226": { "Name": "Lesson_0226", "Number": 226, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 27 - Page 225: Pieces of Eight", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "soul would have seen daybreak. That was what it was,", "Line_02": "thought I, to have the captain wounded; and again I", "Line_03": "blamed myself sharply for leaving them in that danger", "Line_04": "with so few to mount guard.", "Line_05": "By this time I had got to the door and stood up.", "Line_06": "All was dark within, so that I could distinguish nothing", "Line_07": "by the eye. 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It was she", "Line_22": "whom I had heard pecking at a piece of bark; it was she,", "Line_23": "keeping better watch than any human being, who thus", "Line_24": "announced my arrival with her wearisome refrain.", "Line_25": "I had no time left me to recover. At the sharp, clipping", "Line_26": "tone of the parrot, the sleepers awoke and sprang up;", "Line_27": "and with a mighty oath, the voice of Silver cried: —", "Line_28": "\"Who goes?\"", "Line_29": "I turned to run, struck violently against one person," }] }, "Lesson_0227": { "Name": "Lesson_0227", "Number": 227, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 5 - Chapter 27 - Page 226: Pieces of Eight", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "recoiled, and ran full into the arms of a second, who, for", "Line_02": "his part, closed upon and held me tight.", "Line_03": "\"Bring a torch, Dick,\" said Silver, when my capture", "Line_04": "was thus assured.", "Line_05": "And one of the men left the log-house, and presently", "Line_06": "returned with a lighted brand." }] }, "Lesson_0228": { "Name": "Lesson_0228", "Number": 228, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 28 - Page 227: In the Enemy's Camp", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Part 6", "Line_02": "Captain Silver", "Line_03": "Chapter 28", "Line_04": "In the Enemy's Camp", "Line_05": "The red glare of the torch, lighting up the interior", "Line_06": "of the block-house, showed me the worst of my appre-", "Line_07": "hensions realised. The pirates were in possession of", "Line_08": "the house and stores: there was the cask of cognac, there", "Line_09": "were the pork and bread, as before; and, what tenfold", "Line_10": "increased my horror, not a sign of any prisoner. I could", "Line_11": "only judge that all had perished, and my heart smote me", "Line_12": "sorely that I had not been there to perish with them.", "Line_13": "There were six of the buccaneers, all told; not another", "Line_14": "man was left alive. Five of them were on their feet,", "Line_15": "flushed and swollen, suddenly called out of the first sleep", "Line_16": "of drunkenness. The sixth had only risen upon his", "Line_17": "elbow: he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage", "Line_18": "round his head told that he had recently been wounded,", "Line_19": "and still more recently dressed. I remembered the man", "Line_20": "who had been shot and had run back among the woods", "Line_21": "in the great attack, and doubted not that this was he." }] }, "Lesson_0229": { "Name": "Lesson_0229", "Number": 229, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 28 - Page 228: In the Enemy's Camp", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "The parrot sat, preening her plumage, on Long", "Line_02": "John's shoulder. He himself, I thought, looked some-", "Line_03": "what paler and more stern than I was used to. He", "Line_04": "still wore the fine broadcloth suit in which he had ful-", "Line_05": "filled his mission, but it was bitterly the worse for wear,", "Line_06": "daubed with clay and torn with the sharp briers of the", "Line_07": "wood.", "Line_08": "\"So,\" said he, \"here's Jim Hawkins, shiver my", "Line_09": "timbers! dropped in, like, eh? Well, come, I take that", "Line_10": "friendly.\"", "Line_11": "And thereupon he sat down across the brandy cask,", "Line_12": "and began to fill a pipe.", "Line_13": "\"Give me a loan of the link, Dick,\" said he; and", "Line_14": "then, when he had a good light, \"That'll do, lad,\" he", "Line_15": "added; \"stick the glim in the wood heap; and you,", "Line_16": "gentlemen, bring yourselves to! —you needn't stand up", "Line_17": "for Mr. Hawkins; he'll excuse you, you may lay to", "Line_18": "that. And so, Jim\"—stopping the tobacco—\"here", "Line_19": "you were, and quite a pleasant surprise for poor old", "Line_20": "John. I see you were smart when first I set my eyes", "Line_21": "on you; but this here gets away from me clean, it do.\"", "Line_22": "To all this, as may be well supposed, I made no", "Line_23": "answer. They had set me with my back against the", "Line_24": "wall; and I stood there, looking Silver in the face,", "Line_25": "pluckily enough, I hope, to all outward appearance, but", "Line_26": "with black despair in my heart.", "Line_27": "Silver took a whiff or two of his pipe with great", "Line_28": "composure, and then ran on again.", "Line_29": "\"Now, you see, Jim, so be as you are here,\" says" }] }, "Lesson_0230": { "Name": "Lesson_0230", "Number": 230, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 28 - Page 229: In the Enemy's Camp", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "he, \"I'll give you a piece of my mind. I've always", "Line_02": "liked you, I have, for a lad of spirit, and the picter of", "Line_03": "my own self when I was young and handsome. I always", "Line_04": "wanted you to jine and take your share, and die a gentle-", "Line_05": "man, and now, my cock, you've got to. Cap'n Smollett's", "Line_06": "a fine seaman, as I'll own up to any day, but stiff on", "Line_07": "discipline. 'Dooty is dooty,' says he, and right he is.", "Line_08": "Just you keep clear of the cap'n. The doctor himself is", "Line_09": "gone dead again you—('ungrateful scamp' was what he", "Line_10": "said; and the short and the long of the whole story is", "Line_11": "about here: you can't go back to your own lot, for they", "Line_12": "won't have you; and, without you start a third ship's", "Line_13": "company all by yourself, which might be lonely, you'll", "Line_14": "have to jine with Cap'n Silver.\"", "Line_15": "So far so good. My friends, then, were still alive,", "Line_16": "and though I partly believed the truth of Silver's", "Line_17": "statement, that the cabin party were incensed at me for", "Line_18": "my desertion, I was more relieved than distressed by", "Line_19": "what I heard.", "Line_20": "\"I don't say nothing as to your being in our hands,\"", "Line_21": "continued Silver, \"though there you are, and you may", "Line_22": "lay to it. I'm all for argyment; I never seen good", "Line_23": "come out o' threatening. If you like the service, well,", "Line_24": "you'll jine; and if you don't, Jim, why, you're free to", "Line_25": "answer no—free and welcome, shipmate; and if fairer", "Line_26": "can be said by mortal seaman, shiver my sides!\"", "Line_27": "\"Am I to answer, then?\" I asked, with a very", "Line_28": "tremulous voice. Through all this sneering talk, I", "Line_29": "was made to feel the threat of death that overhung me," }] }, "Lesson_0231": { "Name": "Lesson_0231", "Number": 231, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 28 - Page 230: In the Enemy's Camp", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "and my cheeks burned and my heart beat painfully in", "Line_02": "my breast.", "Line_03": "\"Lad,\" said Silver, \"no one's a-pressing of you.", "Line_04": "Take your bearings. None of us won't hurry you,", "Line_05": "mate; time goes so pleasant in your company, you", "Line_06": "see.\"", "Line_07": "\"Well,\" says I, growing a bit bolder, \"if I'm to", "Line_08": "choose, I declare I have a right to know what's", "Line_09": "what, and why you're here, and where my friends", "Line_10": "are.\"", "Line_11": "\"Wot's wot?\" repeated one of the buccaneers, in a", "Line_12": "deep growl. \"Ah, he'd be a lucky one as knowed", "Line_13": "that!\"", "Line_14": "\"You'll, perhaps, batten down your hatches till", "Line_15": "you're spoke to, my friend,\" cried Silver truculently to", "Line_16": "this speaker. And then, in his first gracious tones, he", "Line_17": "replied to me:", "Line_18": "\"Yesterday morning, Mr. Hawkins,\"", "Line_19": "said he, \"in the dog-watch, down came Doctor Livesey", "Line_20": "with a flag of truce. Says he, 'Cap'n Silver, you're sold", "Line_21": "out. Ship's gone.' Well, maybe we'd been taking a", "Line_22": "glass, and a song to help it round. I won't say no.", "Line_23": "Leastways, none of us had looked out. We looked out,", "Line_24": "and, by thunder! the old ship was gone. I never seen", "Line_25": "a pack o' fools look fishier; and you may lay to that, if", "Line_26": "I tells you that looked the fishiest. 'Well,' says the", "Line_27": "doctor, 'let's bargain.' We bargained, him and I, and", "Line_28": "here we are: stores, brandy, block-house, the firewood", "Line_29": "you was thoughtful enough to cut, and, in a manner of", "Line_30": "speaking, the whole blessed boat, from cross-trees to" }] }, "Lesson_0232": { "Name": "Lesson_0232", "Number": 232, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 28 - Page 231: In the Enemy's Camp", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "kelson. As for them, they've tramped; I don't know", "Line_02": "where's they are.\"", "Line_03": "He drew again quietly at his pipe.", "Line_04": "\"And lest yon should take it into that head of", "Line_05": "yours,\" he went on, \"that you was included in the", "Line_06": "treaty, here's the last word that was said:", "Line_07": "'How many", "Line_08": "are you,' says I, 'to leave?'", "Line_09": "'Four,' says he—'four,", "Line_10": "and one of us wounded. As for that boy, I don't know", "Line_11": "where he is, confound him,' says he, 'nor I don't much", "Line_12": "care. We're about sick of him.' These was his words.\"", "Line_13": "\"Is that all?\" I asked.", "Line_14": "\"Well, it's all that you're to hear, my son,\" re-", "Line_15": "turned Silver.", "Line_16": "\"And now I am to choose?\"", "Line_17": "\"And now you are to choose, and you may lay to", "Line_18": "that,\" said Silver.", "Line_19": "\"Well,\" said I, \"I am not such a fool but I know", "Line_20": "pretty well what I have to look for. Let the worst", "Line_21": "come to the worst, it's little I care. I've seen too many", "Line_22": "die since I fell in with you. But there's a thing or", "Line_23": "two I have to tell you,\" I said, and by this time I was", "Line_24": "quite excited;", "Line_25": "\"and the first is this: here you are, in a", "Line_26": "bad way:", "Line_27": "ship lost, treasure lost, men lost; your whole", "Line_28": "business gone to wreck; and if you want to know who", "Line_29": "did it—it was I! I was in the apple barrel the night", "Line_30": "we sighted land, and I heard you, John, and you, Dick", "Line_31": "Johnson, and Hands, who is now at the bottom of the", "Line_32": "sea, and told every word you said before the hour was", "Line_33": "out. And as for the schooner, it was I who cut her cable," }] }, "Lesson_0233": { "Name": "Lesson_0233", "Number": 233, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 28 - Page 232: In the Enemy's Camp", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "and it was I that killed the men yon had aboard of her,", "Line_02": "and it was I who brought her where you'll never see her", "Line_03": "more, not one of you. The laugh's on my side; I've", "Line_04": "had the top of this business from the first; I no more", "Line_05": "fear you than I fear a fly. Kill me, if you please, or", "Line_06": "spare me. But one thing I'll say, and no more; if", "Line_07": "you spare me, bygones are bygones, and when you", "Line_08": "fellows are in court for piracy, I'll save you all I can.", "Line_09": "It is for you to choose. Kill another and do yourselves", "Line_10": "no good, or spare me and keep a witness to save you", "Line_11": "from the gallows.\"", "Line_12": "I stopped, for, I tell you, I was out of breath, and,", "Line_13": "to my wonder, not a man of them moved, but all sat", "Line_14": "staring at me like as many sheep. And while they were", "Line_15": "still staring, I broke out again:", "Line_16": "\"And now, Mr. Silver,\" I said, \"I believe you're", "Line_17": "the best man here, and if things go to the worst, I'll", "Line_18": "take it kind of you to let the doctor know the way I", "Line_19": "took it.\"", "Line_20": "\"I'll bear it in mind,\" said Silver, with an accent", "Line_21": "so curious that I could not, for the life of me, decide", "Line_22": "whether he were laughing at my request, or had been", "Line_23": "favourably affected by my courage.", "Line_24": "\"I'll put one to that,\" cried the old mahogany-", "Line_25": "faced seaman—Morgan by name—whom I had seen in", "Line_26": "Long John's public-house upon the quays of Bristol.", "Line_27": "\"It was him that knowed Black Dog.\"", "Line_28": "\"Well, and see here,\" added the sea-cook. \"I'll", "Line_29": "put another again to that, by thunder! for it was this" }] }, "Lesson_0234": { "Name": "Lesson_0234", "Number": 234, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 28 - Page 233: In the Enemy's Camp", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "same boy that faked the chart from Billy Bones. First", "Line_02": "and last, we've split upon Jim Hawkins!\"", "Line_03": "\"Then here goes!\" said Morgan, with an oath.", "Line_04": "And he sprang up, drawing his knife as if he", "Line_05": "had been twenty.", "Line_06": "\"Avast, there!\" cried Silver. \"Who are you, Tom", "Line_07": "Morgan? Maybe you thought you was cap'n here,", "Line_08": "perhaps. By the powers, but I'll teach you better!", "Line_09": "Cross me, and you'll go where many a good man's", "Line_10": "gone before you, first and last, these thirty year back", "Line_11": "—some to the yard-arm, shiver my timbers! and some", "Line_12": "by the board, and all to feed the fishes. There's never", "Line_13": "a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day", "Line_14": "a'terwards, Tom Morgan, you may lay to that.\"", "Line_15": "Morgan paused; but a hoarse murmur rose from the", "Line_16": "others.", "Line_17": "\"Tom's right,\" said one.", "Line_18": "\"I stood hazing long enough from one,\" added", "Line_19": "another. \"I'll be hanged if I'll be hazed by you, John", "Line_20": "Silver.\"", "Line_21": "\"Did any of you gentlemen want to have it out with", "Line_22": "me?\" roared Silver, bending far forward from his", "Line_23": "position on the keg, with his pipe still glowing in", "Line_24": "his right hand. \"Put a name on what you're at; you", "Line_25": "aint dumb, I reckon. Him that wants shall get it.", "Line_26": "Have I lived this many years, and a son of a rum", "Line_27": "puncheon cock his hat athwart my hawse at the latter", "Line_28": "end of it? You know the way; you're all gentlemen", "Line_29": "o' fortune, by your account. Well, I'm ready. Take" }] }, "Lesson_0235": { "Name": "Lesson_0235", "Number": 235, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 28 - Page 234: In the Enemy's Camp", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "a cutlass, him that dares, and I'll see the colour of his", "Line_02": "inside, crutch and all, before that pipe's empty.\"", "Line_03": "Not a man stirred; not a man answered.", "Line_04": "\"That's your sort, is it?\" he added, returning", "Line_05": "his pipe to his mouth. \"Well, you're a gay lot to look", "Line_06": "at, anyway. Not much worth to fight, you aint.", "Line_07": "P'r'aps you can understand King George's English.", "Line_08": "I'm cap'n here by 'lection. I'm cap'n here because", "Line_09": "I'm the best man by a long sea-mile. You won't", "Line_10": "fight, as gentlemen o' fortune should; then, by thunder,", "Line_11": "you'll obey, and you may lay to it! I like that boy,", "Line_12": "now; I never seen a better boy than that. He's more", "Line_13": "a man than any pair of rats of you in this here house,", "Line_14": "and what I say is this: let me see him that'll lay a", "Line_15": "hand on him—that's what I say, and you may lay to", "Line_16": "it.\"", "Line_17": "There was a long pause after this. I stood straight", "Line_18": "up against the wall, my heart still going like a", "Line_19": "sledge-hammer, but with a ray of hope now shining", "Line_20": "in my bosom. Silver leant back against the wall, his", "Line_21": "arms crossed, his pipe in the corner of his mouth, as", "Line_22": "calm as though he had been in church; yet his eye", "Line_23": "kept wandering furtively, and he kept the tail of it", "Line_24": "on his unruly followers. They, on their part, drew", "Line_25": "gradually together towards the far end of the block-", "Line_26": "house, and the low hiss of their whispering sounded", "Line_27": "in my ear continuously, like a stream. One after", "Line_28": "another, they would look up, and the red light of the", "Line_29": "torch would fall for a second on their nervous faces;" }] }, "Lesson_0236": { "Name": "Lesson_0236", "Number": 236, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 28 - Page 235: In the Enemy's Camp", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "but it was not towards me, it was towards Silver that", "Line_02": "they turned their eyes.", "Line_03": "\"You seem to have a lot to say,\" remarked Silver,", "Line_04": "spitting far into the air. \"Pipe up and let me hear it,", "Line_05": "or lay to.\"", "Line_06": "\"Ax your pardon, sir,\" returned one of the men,", "Line_07": "\"you're pretty free with some of the rules; maybe", "Line_08": "you'll kindly keep an eye upon the rest. This crew's", "Line_09": "dissatisfied; this crew don't vally bullying a marlin-", "Line_10": "spike; this crew has its rights like other crews, I'll", "Line_11": "make so free as that; and by your own rules, I take it", "Line_12": "we can talk together. I ax your pardon, sir, ack-", "Line_13": "nowledging you for to be capting at this present; but", "Line_14": "I claim my right, and steps outside for a council.\"", "Line_15": "And with an elaborate sea-salute, this fellow, a long,", "Line_16": "ill-looking, yellow-eyed man of five and thirty, stepped", "Line_17": "coolly towards the door and disappeared out of the house.", "Line_18": "One after another, the rest followed his example; each", "Line_19": "making a salute as he passed; each adding some", "Line_20": "apology. \"According to rules,\" said one. \"Fo'c's'le", "Line_21": "council,\" said Morgan. And so with one remark or", "Line_22": "another, all marched out, and left Silver and me alone", "Line_23": "with the torch.", "Line_24": "The sea-cook instantly removed his pipe.", "Line_25": "\"Now, look you here, Jim Hawkins,\" he said, in", "Line_26": "a steady whisper, that was no more than audible,", "Line_27": "\"you're within half a plank of death, and, what's a", "Line_28": "long sight worse, of torture. They're going to throw", "Line_29": "me off. But, you mark, I stand by you through thick" }] }, "Lesson_0237": { "Name": "Lesson_0237", "Number": 237, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 28 - Page 236: In the Enemy's Camp", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "and thin. I didn't mean to; no, not till you spoke up.", "Line_02": "I was about desperate to lose that much blunt, and be", "Line_03": "hanged into the bargain. But I see you was the right", "Line_04": "sort. I says to myself: You stand by Hawkins, John,", "Line_05": "and Hawkins '11 stand by you. You're his last card,", "Line_06": "and, by the living thunder, John, he's yours! Back", "Line_07": "to back, says I. You save your witness, and he'll save", "Line_08": "your neck!\"", "Line_09": "I began dimly to understand.", "Line_10": "\"You mean all's lost?\" I asked.", "Line_11": "\"Ay, by gum, I do!\" he answered. \"Ship gone,", "Line_12": "neck gone—that's the size of it. Once I looked into", "Line_13": "that bay, Jim Hawkins, and seen no schooner—well,", "Line_14": "I'm tough, but I gave out. As for that lot and their", "Line_15": "council, mark me, they're outright fools and cowards.", "Line_16": "I'll save your life—if so be as I can—from them. But,", "Line_17": "see here, Jim—tit for tat—you save Long John from", "Line_18": "swinging.\"", "Line_19": "I was bewildered; it seemed a thing so hopeless he", "Line_20": "was asking—he, the old buccaneer, the ringleader", "Line_21": "throughout.", "Line_22": "\"What I can do, that I'll do,\" I said.", "Line_23": "\"It's a bargain!\" cried Long John. \"You speak", "Line_24": "up plucky, and, by thunder! I've a chance.\"", "Line_25": "He hobbled to the torch, where it stood propped", "Line_26": "among the firewood, and took a fresh light to his pipe.", "Line_27": "\"Understand me, Jim,\" he said, returning. \"I've", "Line_28": "a head on my shoulders, I have. I'm on squire's side", "Line_29": "now. I know you've got that ship safe somewheres." }] }, "Lesson_0238": { "Name": "Lesson_0238", "Number": 238, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 28 - Page 237: In the Enemy's Camp", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "How you done it, I don't know, but safe it is. I guess", "Line_02": "Hands and O'Brien turned soft. I never much believed", "Line_03": "in neither of them. Now you mark me. I ask no", "Line_04": "questions, nor I won't let others. I know when a", "Line_05": "game's up, I do; and I know a lad that's staunch.", "Line_06": "Ah, you that's young—you and me might have done a", "Line_07": "power of good together!\"", "Line_08": "He drew some cognac from the cask into a tin", "Line_09": "canikin.", "Line_10": "\"Will you taste, messmate?\" he asked; and when", "Line_11": "I had refused: \"Well, I'll take a drain myself, Jim,\"", "Line_12": "said he. \"I need a caulker, for there's trouble on hand.", "Line_13": "And, talking o' trouble, why did that doctor give me", "Line_14": "the chart, Jim?\"", "Line_15": "My face expressed a wonder so unaffected that he", "Line_16": "saw the needlessness of further questions.", "Line_17": "\"Ah, well, he did, though,\" said he. \"And there's", "Line_18": "something under that, no doubt—something, surely,", "Line_19": "under that, Jim—bad or good.\"", "Line_20": "And he took another swallow of the brandy, shaking", "Line_21": "his great fair head like a man who looks forward to the", "Line_22": "worst." }] }, "Lesson_0239": { "Name": "Lesson_0239", "Number": 239, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 29 - Page 238: The Black Spot Again", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Chapter 29", "Line_02": "The Black Spot Again", "Line_03": "The council of the buccaneers had lasted some time,", "Line_04": "when one of them re-entered the house, and with a", "Line_05": "repetition of the same salute, which had in my eyes an", "Line_06": "ironical air, begged for a moment's loan of the torch.", "Line_07": "Silver briefly agreed; and this emissary retired again,", "Line_08": "leaving us together in the dark.", "Line_09": "\"There's a breeze coming, Jim,\" said Silver, who", "Line_10": "had, by this time, adopted quite a friendly and familiar", "Line_11": "tone.", "Line_12": "I turned to the loophole nearest me and looked out.", "Line_13": "The embers of the great fire had so far burned them-", "Line_14": "selves out, and now glowed so low and duskily, that I", "Line_15": "understood why these conspirators desired a torch.", "Line_16": "About half way down the slope to the stockade, they", "Line_17": "were collected in a group; one held the light; another", "Line_18": "was on his knees in their midst, and I saw the blade of", "Line_19": "an open knife shine in his hand with varying colours,", "Line_20": "in the moon and torchlight. The rest were all some-", "Line_21": "what stooping, as though watching the manoeuvres of", "Line_22": "this last. I could just make out that he had a book", "Line_23": "as well as a knife in his hand; and was still wondering" }] }, "Lesson_0240": { "Name": "Lesson_0240", "Number": 240, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 29 - Page 239: The Black Spot Again", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "how anything so incongruous had come in their pos-", "Line_02": "session, when the kneeling figure rose once more to his", "Line_03": "feet, and the whole party began to move together", "Line_04": "towards the house.", "Line_05": "\"Here they come,\" said I; and I returned to my", "Line_06": "former position, for it seemed beneath my dignity that", "Line_07": "they should find me watching them.", "Line_08": "\"Well, let 'em come, lad—let 'em come,\" said", "Line_09": "Silver, cheerily. \"I've still a shot in my locker.\"", "Line_10": "The door opened, and the five men, standing huddled", "Line_11": "together just inside, pushed one of their number for-", "Line_12": "ward. In any other circumstances it would have been", "Line_13": "comical to see his slow advance, hesitating as he set", "Line_14": "down each foot, but holding his closed right hand in", "Line_15": "front of him.", "Line_16": "\"Step up, lad,\" cried Silver. \"I won't eat you.", "Line_17": "Hand it over, lubber. I know the rules, I do; I won't", "Line_18": "hurt a depytation.\"", "Line_19": "Thus encouraged, the buccaneer stepped forth more", "Line_20": "briskly, and having passed something to Silver, from", "Line_21": "hand to hand, slipped yet more smartly back again to", "Line_22": "his companions.", "Line_23": "The sea-cook looked at what had been given him.", "Line_24": "\"The black spot! I thought so,\" he observed.", "Line_25": "\"Where might you have got the paper? Why, hillo!", "Line_26": "look here, now: this aint lucky! You've gone and cut", "Line_27": "this out of a Bible. What fool's cut a Bible?\"", "Line_28": "\"Ah, there!\" said Morgan—\"there! Wot did I", "Line_29": "say? No good 'll come o' that, I said.\"" }] }, "Lesson_0241": { "Name": "Lesson_0241", "Number": 241, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 29 - Page 240: The Black Spot Again", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "\"Well, you've about fixed it now, among you,\"", "Line_02": "continued Silver. \"You'll all swing now, I reckon.", "Line_03": "What soft-headed lubber had a Bible?\"", "Line_04": "\"It was Dick,\" said one.", "Line_05": "\"Dick, was it? Then Dick can get to prayers,\"", "Line_06": "said Silver. \"He's seen his slice of luck, has Dick,", "Line_07": "and you may lay to that.\"", "Line_08": "But here the long man with the yellow eyes struck", "Line_09": "in.", "Line_10": "\"Belay that talk, John Silver,\" he said. \"This", "Line_11": "crew has tipped you the black spot in full council, as in", "Line_12": "dooty bound; just you turn it over, as in dooty bound,", "Line_13": "and see what's wrote there. Then you can talk.\"", "Line_14": "\"Thanky, George,\" replied the sea-cook. \"You", "Line_15": "always was brisk for business, and has the rules by", "Line_16": "heart, George, as I'm pleased to see. Well, what is", "Line_17": "it, anyway? Ah! 'Deposed'—that's it, is it? Very", "Line_18": "pretty wrote, to be sure; like print, I swear. Your", "Line_19": "hand o' write, George? Why, you was gettin' quite", "Line_20": "a leadin' man in this here crew. You'll be cap'n next,", "Line_21": "I shouldn't wonder. Just oblige me with that torch", "Line_22": "again, will you? This pipe don't draw.\"", "Line_23": "\"Come, now,\" said George, \"you don't fool this", "Line_24": "crew no more. You're a funny man, by your account;", "Line_25": "but you're over now, and you'll maybe step down off", "Line_26": "that barrel, and help vote.\"", "Line_27": "\"I thought you said you knowed the rules,\" re-", "Line_28": "turned Silver, contemptuously. \"Leastways, if you", "Line_29": "don't, I do; and I wait here—and I'm still your cap'n," }] }, "Lesson_0242": { "Name": "Lesson_0242", "Number": 242, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 29 - Page 241: The Black Spot Again", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "\"Mind—till you outs with your grievances, and I reply,", "Line_02": "in the meantime, your black spot aint worth a biscuit.", "Line_03": "After that, we'll see.\"", "Line_04": "\"Oh,\" replied George, \"you don't be under no kind", "Line_05": "of apprehension; we're all square, we are. First,", "Line_06": "you've made a hash of this cruise—you'll be a bold man", "Line_07": "to say no to that. Second, you let the enemy out o'", "Line_08": "this here trap for nothing. Why did they want out?", "Line_09": "I dunno; but it's pretty plain they wanted it. Third,", "Line_10": "you wouldn't let us go at them upon the march. Oh,", "Line_11": "we see through you, John Silver; you want to play", "Line_12": "booty, that's what's wrong with you. And then,", "Line_13": "fourth, there's this here boy.\"", "Line_14": "\"Is that all?\" asked Silver, quietly.", "Line_15": "\"Enough, too,\" retorted George. \"We'll all swing", "Line_16": "and sun-dry for your bungling.\"", "Line_17": "\"Well, now, look here, I'll answer these four", "Line_18": "p'ints; one after another I'll answer 'em. I made a", "Line_19": "hash o' this cruise, did I? Well, now, you all know", "Line_20": "what I wanted; and you all know, if that had been", "Line_21": "done, that we'd 'a' been aboard the Hispaniola this night", "Line_22": "as ever was, every man of us alive, and fit, and full of", "Line_23": "good plum-duff, and the treasure in the hold of her, by", "Line_24": "thunder! Well, who crossed me? Who forced my", "Line_25": "hand, as was the lawful cap'n? Who tipped me the", "Line_26": "black spot the day we landed, and began this dance? Ah,", "Line_27": "it's a fine dance—I'm with you there—and looks", "Line_28": "mighty like a hornpipe in a rope's end at Execution", "Line_29": "Dock by London town, it does. But who done it?" }] }, "Lesson_0243": { "Name": "Lesson_0243", "Number": 243, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 29 - Page 242: The Black Spot Again", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "\"Why, it was Anderson, and Hands, and you, George", "Line_02": "Merry! And you're the last above board of that same", "Line_03": "meddling crew; and you have the Davy Jones's insolence", "Line_04": "to up and stand for cap'n over me—you, that sank the", "Line_05": "lot of us! By the powers! but this tops the stiffest", "Line_06": "yarn to nothing.\"", "Line_07": "Silver paused, and I could see by the faces of George", "Line_08": "and his late comrades that these words had not been said", "Line_09": "in vain.", "Line_10": "\"That's for number one,\" cried the accused, wiping", "Line_11": "the sweat from his brow, for he had been talking with a", "Line_12": "vehemence that shook the house. \"Why, I give you", "Line_13": "my word, I'm sick to speak to you. You've neither", "Line_14": "sense nor memory, and I leave it to fancy where your", "Line_15": "mothers was that let you come to sea. Sea! Gentlemen", "Line_16": "o' fortune! I reckon tailors is your trade.\"", "Line_17": "\"Go on, John,\" said Morgan. \"Speak up to the", "Line_18": "others.\"", "Line_19": "\"Ah, the others!\" returned John. \"They're a nice", "Line_20": "lot, aint they? You say this cruise is bungled. Ah!", "Line_21": "by gum, if you could understand how bad it's bungled,", "Line_22": "you would see! We're that near the gibbet that my", "Line_23": "neck's stiff with thinking on it. You've seen 'em, maybe,", "Line_24": "hanged in chains, birds about 'em, seamen p'inting 'em", "Line_25": "out as they go down with the tide. 'Who's that?'", "Line_26": "says one. 'That! Why, that's John Silver. I knowed", "Line_27": "him well,' says another. And you can hear the chains", "Line_28": "a-jangle as you go about and reach for the other buoy.", "Line_29": "Now, that's about where we are, every mother's son of" }] }, "Lesson_0244": { "Name": "Lesson_0244", "Number": 244, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 29 - Page 243: The Black Spot Again", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "us, thanks to him, and Hands, and Anderson, and other", "Line_02": "ruination fools of you. And if you want to know about", "Line_03": "number four, and that boy, why, shiver my timbers! isn't", "Line_04": "he a hostage? Are we a-going to waste a hostage?", "Line_05": "No, not us; he might be our last chance, and I shouldn't", "Line_06": "wonder. Kill that boy? not me, mates! And number", "Line_07": "three? Ah, well, there's a deal to say to number three.", "Line_08": "Maybe you don't count it nothing to have a real college", "Line_09": "doctor come to see you every day—you, John, with your", "Line_10": "head broke—or you, George Merry, that had the ague", "Line_11": "shakes upon you not six hours agone, and has your eyes", "Line_12": "the colour of lemon peel to this same moment on the", "Line_13": "clock? And maybe, perhaps, you didn't know there", "Line_14": "was a consort coming, either? But there is; and not", "Line_15": "so long till then; and we'll see who'll be glad to have a", "Line_16": "hostage when it comes to that. And as for number two,", "Line_17": "and why I made a bargain—well, you came crawling on", "Line_18": "your knees to me to make it—on your knees you came,", "Line_19": "you was that downhearted—and you'd have starved, too,", "Line_20": "if I hadn't—but that's a trifle! You look there—that's", "Line_21": "why!\"", "Line_22": "And he cast down upon the floor a paper that I", "Line_23": "instantly recognised—none other than the chart on", "Line_24": "yellow paper, with the three red crosses, that I had", "Line_25": "found in the oilcloth at the bottom of the captain's", "Line_26": "chest. Why the doctor had given it to him was more", "Line_27": "than I could fancy.", "Line_28": "But if it were inexplicable to me, the appearance of", "Line_29": "the chart was incredible to the surviving mutineers. They" }] }, "Lesson_0245": { "Name": "Lesson_0245", "Number": 245, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 29 - Page 244: The Black Spot Again", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "leaped upon it like cats upon a mouse. It went from", "Line_02": "hand to hand, one tearing it from another; and by the", "Line_03": "oaths and the cries and the childish laughter with which", "Line_04": "they accompanied their examination, you would have", "Line_05": "thought, not only they were fingering the very gold, but", "Line_06": "were at sea with it, besides, in safety.", "Line_07": "\"Yes,\" said one, \"that's Flint, sure enough. J. F.,", "Line_08": "and a score below, with a clove hitch to it; so he done", "Line_09": "ever.\"", "Line_10": "\"Mighty pretty,\" said George. \"But how are we", "Line_11": "to get away with it, and us no ship?\"", "Line_12": "Silver suddenly sprang up, and supporting himself", "Line_13": "with a hand against the wall:", "Line_14": "\"Now I give you warning, George,\" he cried. \"One", "Line_15": "more word of your sauce, and I'll call you down and fight", "Line_16": "you. How? Why, how do I know? You had ought to", "Line_17": "tell me that—you and the rest, that lost me my schooner,", "Line_18": "with your interference, burn you! But not you, you can't;", "Line_19": "you hain't got the invention of a cockroach. But civil", "Line_20": "you can speak, and shall, George Merry, you may lay to", "Line_21": "that.\"", "Line_22": "\"That's fair enow,\" said the old man Morgan.", "Line_23": "\"Fair! I reckon so,\" said the sea-cook. \"You lost", "Line_24": "the ship; I found the treasure. Who's the better man", "Line_25": "at that? And now I resign, by thunder! Elect whom", "Line_26": "you please to be your cap'n now; I'm done with it.\"", "Line_27": "\"Silver!\" they cried. \"Barbecue for ever!", "Line_28": "Barbecue for cap'n!\"" }] }, "Lesson_0246": { "Name": "Lesson_0246", "Number": 246, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 29 - Page 245: The Black Spot Again", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "\"So that's the toon, is it?\" cried the cook.", "Line_02": "\"George, I reckon you'll have to wait another turn,", "Line_03": "friend; and lucky for you as I'm not a revengeful man.", "Line_04": "But that was never my way. And now, shipmates, this", "Line_05": "black spot? 'Tain't much good now, is it? Dick's", "Line_06": "crossed his luck and spoiled his Bible, and that's about", "Line_07": "all.\"", "Line_08": "\"It'll do to kiss the book on still, won't it?\" growled", "Line_09": "Dick, who was evidently uneasy at the curse he had", "Line_10": "brought upon himself.", "Line_11": "\"A Bible with a bit cut out!\" returned Silver,", "Line_12": "derisively. \"Not it. It don't bind no more'n a ballad-", "Line_13": "book.\"", "Line_14": "\"Don't it, though?\" cried Dick, with a sort of joy.", "Line_15": "\"Well, I reckon that's worth having, too.\"", "Line_16": "\"Here, Jim—here's a cur'osity for you,\" said Silver;", "Line_17": "and he tossed me the paper.", "Line_18": "It was a round about the size of a crown piece. One", "Line_19": "side was blank, for it had been the last leaf; the other", "Line_20": "contained a verse or two of Revelation—these words", "Line_21": "among the rest, which struck sharply home upon my", "Line_22": "mind: \"Without are dogs and murderers.\" The printed", "Line_23": "side had been blackened with wood ash, which already", "Line_24": "began to come off and soil my fingers; on the blank", "Line_25": "side had been written with the same material the one", "Line_26": "word \"Deposed.\" I have that curiosity beside me at", "Line_27": "this moment; but not a trace of writing now remains", "Line_28": "beyond a single scratch, such as a man might make", "Line_29": "with his thumb-nail." }] }, "Lesson_0247": { "Name": "Lesson_0247", "Number": 247, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 29 - Page 246: The Black Spot Again", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "That was the end of the night's business. Soon", "Line_02": "after, with a drink all round, we lay down to sleep, and", "Line_03": "the outside of Silver's vengeance was to put George", "Line_04": "Merry up for sentinel, and threaten him with death if", "Line_05": "he should prove unfaithful.", "Line_06": "It was long ere I could close an eye, and Heaven", "Line_07": "knows I had matter enough for thought in the man", "Line_08": "whom I had slain that afternoon, in my own most", "Line_09": "perilous position, and, above all, in the remarkable game", "Line_10": "that I saw Silver now engaged upon—keeping the", "Line_11": "mutineers together with one hand, and grasping, with", "Line_12": "the other, after every means, possible and impossible, to", "Line_13": "make his peace and save his miserable life. He himself", "Line_14": "slept peacefully, and snored aloud; yet my heart was", "Line_15": "sore for him, wicked as he was, to think on the dark", "Line_16": "perils that environed, and the shameful gibbet that", "Line_17": "awaited him." }] }, "Lesson_0248": { "Name": "Lesson_0248", "Number": 248, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 30 - Page 247: On Parole", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Chapter 30", "Line_02": "On Parole", "Line_03": "I was wakened—indeed, we were all wakened, for I", "Line_04": "could see even the sentinel shake himself together from", "Line_05": "where he had fallen against the door-post—by a clear,", "Line_06": "hearty voice hailing us from the margin of the wood:—", "Line_07": "\"Block-house, ahoy!\" it cried. \"Here's the", "Line_08": "doctor.\"", "Line_09": "And the doctor it was. Although I was glad to", "Line_10": "hear the sound, yet my gladness was not without ad-", "Line_11": "mixture. I remembered with confusion my insub-", "Line_12": "ordinate and stealthy conduct; and when I saw where", "Line_13": "it had brought me—among what companions and sur-", "Line_14": "rounded by what dangers—I felt ashamed to look him", "Line_15": "in the face.", "Line_16": "He must have risen in the dark, for the day had", "Line_17": "hardly come; and when I ran to a loophole and looked", "Line_18": "out, I saw him standing, like Silver once before, up to", "Line_19": "the mid-leg in creeping vapour.", "Line_20": "\"You, doctor! Top o' the morning to you, sir!\"", "Line_21": "cried Silver, broad awake and beaming with good", "Line_22": "nature in a moment. \"Bright and early, to be sure;", "Line_23": "and it's the early bird, as the saying goes, that gets the" }] }, "Lesson_0249": { "Name": "Lesson_0249", "Number": 249, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 30 - Page 248: On Parole", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "rations. George, shake up your timbers, son, and help", "Line_02": "Dr. Livesey over the ship's side. All a-doin' well, your", "Line_03": "patients was—all well and merry.", "Line_04": "So he pattered on, standing on the hill-top, with his", "Line_05": "crutch under his elbow, and one hand upon the side of", "Line_06": "the log-house—quite the old John in voice, manner, and", "Line_07": "expression.", "Line_08": "\"We've quite a surprise for you, too, sir,\" he con-", "Line_09": "tinued. \"We've a little stranger here—he! he! A", "Line_10": "noo boarder and lodger, sir, and looking fit and taut as", "Line_11": "a fiddle; slep' like a supercargo, he did, right alongside", "Line_12": "of John—stem to stem we was, all night.\"", "Line_13": "Dr. Livesey was by this time across the stockade", "Line_14": "and pretty near the cook; and I could hear the altera-", "Line_15": "tion in his voice as he said:—", "Line_16": "\"Not Jim?\"", "Line_17": "\"The very same Jim as ever was,\" says Silver.", "Line_18": "The doctor stopped outright, although he did not", "Line_19": "speak, and it was some seconds before he seemed able to", "Line_20": "move on.", "Line_21": "\"Well, well,\" he said, at last, \"duty first and", "Line_22": "pleasure afterwards, as you might have said yourself,", "Line_23": "Silver. Let us overhaul these patients of yours.\"", "Line_24": "A moment afterwards he had entered the block-house,", "Line_25": "and, with one grim nod to me, proceeded with his work", "Line_26": "among the sick. He seemed under no apprehension,", "Line_27": "though he must have known that his life, among these", "Line_28": "treacherous demons, depended on a hair; and he rattled", "Line_29": "on to his patients as if he were paying an ordinary professional" }] }, "Lesson_0250": { "Name": "Lesson_0250", "Number": 250, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 30 - Page 249: On Parole", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "visit in a quiet English family. His manner,", "Line_02": "I suppose, reacted on the men; for they behaved to", "Line_03": "him as if nothing had occurred—as if he were still", "Line_04": "ship's doctor, and they still faithful hands before the", "Line_05": "mast.", "Line_06": "\"You're doing well, my friend,\" he said to the", "Line_07": "fellow with the bandaged head, \"and if ever any person", "Line_08": "had a close shave, it was you; your head must be as", "Line_09": "hard as iron. Well, George, how goes it? You're a", "Line_10": "pretty colour, certainly; why, your liver, man, is upside", "Line_11": "down. Did you take that medicine? Did he take that", "Line_12": "medicine, men?\"", "Line_13": "\"Ay, ay, sir, he took it, sure enough,\" returned", "Line_14": "Morgan.", "Line_15": "\"Because, you see, since I am mutineers' doctor, or", "Line_16": "prison doctor, as I prefer to call it,\" says Doctor Livesey,", "Line_17": "in his pleasantest way, \"I make it a point of honour not", "Line_18": "to lose a man for King George (God bless him!) and", "Line_19": "the gallows.\"", "Line_20": "The rogues looked at each other, but swallowed the", "Line_21": "home-thrust in silence.", "Line_22": "\"Dick don't feel well, sir,\" said one.", "Line_23": "\"Don't he?\" replied the doctor. \"Well, step up", "Line_24": "here, Dick, and let me see your tongue. No, I should", "Line_25": "be surprised if he did! the man's tongue is fit to", "Line_26": "frighten the French. Another fever.\"", "Line_27": "\"Ah, there,\" said Morgan, \"that corned of sp'iling", "Line_28": "Bibles.\"", "Line_29": "\"That corned—as you call it—of being arrant asses,\"" }] }, "Lesson_0251": { "Name": "Lesson_0251", "Number": 251, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 30 - Page 250: On Parole", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "retorted the doctor, \"and not having sense enough to", "Line_02": "know honest air from poison, and the dry land from a", "Line_03": "vile, pestiferous slough. I think it most probable—", "Line_04": "though, of course, it's only an opinion—that you'll all", "Line_05": "have the deuce to pay before you get that malaria out of", "Line_06": "your systems. Camp in a bog, would you? Silver,", "Line_07": "I'm surprised at you. You're less of a fool than many,", "Line_08": "take you all round; but you don't appear to me to have", "Line_09": "the rudiments of a notion of the rules of health.", "Line_10": "\"Well,\" he added, after he had dosed them round,", "Line_11": "and they had taken his prescriptions, with really laugh-", "Line_12": "able humility, more like charity school-children than", "Line_13": "blood-guilty mutineers and pirates—\"well, that's done", "Line_14": "for to-day. And now I should wish to have a talk with", "Line_15": "that boy, please.\"", "Line_16": "And he nodded his head in my direction carelessly.", "Line_17": "George Merry was at the door, spitting and splutter-", "Line_18": "ing over some bad-tasted medicine; but at the first", "Line_19": "word of the doctor's proposal he swung round with a", "Line_20": "deep flush, and cried \"No!\" and swore.", "Line_21": "Silver struck the barrel with his open hand.", "Line_22": "\"Si-lence!\" he roared, and looked about him posi-", "Line_23": "tively like a lion. \"Doctor,\" he went on, in his usual", "Line_24": "tones, \"I was a-thinking of that, knowing as how you", "Line_25": "had a fancy for the boy. We're all humbly grateful", "Line_26": "for your kindness, and, as you see, puts faith in you,", "Line_27": "and takes the drugs down like that much grog. And I", "Line_28": "take it I've found a way as 'll suit all. Hawkins, will", "Line_29": "you give me your word of honour as a young gentleman" }] }, "Lesson_0252": { "Name": "Lesson_0252", "Number": 252, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 30 - Page 251: On Parole", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "—for a young gentleman you are, although poor born—", "Line_02": "your word of honour not to slip your cable?\"", "Line_03": "I readily gave the pledge required.", "Line_04": "\"Then, doctor,\" said Silver, \"you just step outside", "Line_05": "o' that stockade, and once you're there, I'll bring the", "Line_06": "boy down on the inside, and I reckon you can yarn", "Line_07": "through the spars. Good day to you, sir, and all our", "Line_08": "dooties to the squire and Cap'n Smollett.\"", "Line_09": "The explosion of disapproval, which nothing but", "Line_10": "Silver's black looks had restrained, broke out imme-", "Line_11": "diately the doctor had left the house. Silver was", "Line_12": "roundly accused of playing double—of trying to make", "Line_13": "a separate peace for himself—of sacrificing the interests", "Line_14": "of his accomplices and victims; and, in one word, of the", "Line_15": "identical, exact thing that he was doing. It seemed to", "Line_16": "me so obvious, in this case, that I could not imagine", "Line_17": "how he was to turn their anger. But he was twice the", "Line_18": "man the rest were; and his last night's victory had", "Line_19": "given him a huge preponderance on their minds. He", "Line_20": "called them all the fools and dolts you can imagine, said", "Line_21": "it was necessary I should talk to the doctor, fluttered", "Line_22": "the chart in their faces, asked them if they could afford", "Line_23": "to break the treaty the very day they were bound a-", "Line_24": "treasure-hunting.", "Line_25": "\"No, by thunder!\" he cried, \"it's us must break", "Line_26": "the treaty when the time comes; and till then I'll", "Line_27": "gammon that doctor, if I have to ile his boots with", "Line_28": "brandy.\"", "Line_29": "And then he bade them get the fire lit, and stalked" }] }, "Lesson_0253": { "Name": "Lesson_0253", "Number": 253, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 30 - Page 252: On Parole", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "out upon his crutch, with his hand on my shoulder,", "Line_02": "leaving them in a disarray, and silenced by his volubility", "Line_03": "rather than convinced.", "Line_04": "\"Slow, lad, slow,\" he said. \"They might round", "Line_05": "upon us in a twinkle of an eye, if we was seen to", "Line_06": "hurry.\"", "Line_07": "Very deliberately, then, did we advance across the", "Line_08": "sand to where the doctor awaited us on the other side", "Line_09": "of the stockade, and as soon as we were within easy", "Line_10": "speaking distance, Silver stopped.", "Line_11": "\"You'll make a note of this here also, doctor,\" says", "Line_12": "he, \"and the boy'll tell you how I saved his life, and", "Line_13": "were deposed for it, too, and you may lay to that.", "Line_14": "Doctor, when a man's steering as near the wind as", "Line_15": "me—playing chuck-farthing with the last breath in", "Line_16": "his body, like—you wouldn't think it too much, may-", "Line_17": "hap, to give him one good word? You'll please bear", "Line_18": "in mind it's not my life only now—it's that boy's into", "Line_19": "the bargain; and you'll speak me fair, doctor, and", "Line_20": "give me a bit o' hope to go on, for the sake of", "Line_21": "mercy.\"", "Line_22": "Silver was a changed man, once he was out there", "Line_23": "and had his back to his friends and the block-house;", "Line_24": "his cheeks seemed to have fallen in, his voice trembled;", "Line_25": "never was a soul more dead in earnest.", "Line_26": "\"Why, John, you're not afraid?\" asked Doctor", "Line_27": "Livesey.", "Line_28": "\"Doctor, I'm no coward; no, not I—not so much!\"", "Line_29": "and he snapped his fingers. \"If I was I wouldn't" }] }, "Lesson_0254": { "Name": "Lesson_0254", "Number": 254, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 30 - Page 253: On Parole", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "say it. But I'll own up fairly, I've the shakes upon", "Line_02": "me for the gallows. You're a good man and a", "Line_03": "true; I never seen a better man! And you'll not", "Line_04": "forget what I done good, not any more than you'll", "Line_05": "forget the bad, I know. And I step aside—see", "Line_06": "here—and leave you and Jim alone. And you'll", "Line_07": "put that down for me, too, for it's a long stretch, is", "Line_08": "that!\"", "Line_09": "So saying, he stepped back a little way, till he was", "Line_10": "out of earshot, and there sat down upon a tree-stump", "Line_11": "and began to whistle; spinning round now and again", "Line_12": "upon his seat so as to command a sight, sometimes of", "Line_13": "me and the doctor, and sometimes of his unruly", "Line_14": "ruffians as they went to and fro in the sand, between", "Line_15": "the fire—which they were busy rekindling—and the", "Line_16": "house, from which they brought forth pork and bread", "Line_17": "to make the breakfast.", "Line_18": "\"So, Jim,\" said the doctor, sadly, \"here you are.", "Line_19": "As you have brewed, so shall you drink, my boy.", "Line_20": "Heaven knows, I cannot find it in my heart to blame", "Line_21": "you; but this much I will say, be it kind or unkind:", "Line_22": "when Captain Smollett was well, you dared not have", "Line_23": "gone off; and when he was ill, and couldn't help it, by", "Line_24": "George, it was downright cowardly!\"", "Line_25": "I will own that I here began to weep. \"Doctor,\"", "Line_26": "I said, \"you might spare me. I have blamed myself", "Line_27": "enough; my life's forfeit anyway, and I should have", "Line_28": "been dead by now, if Silver hadn't stood for me; and", "Line_29": "doctor, believe this, I can die—and I daresay I deserve" }] }, "Lesson_0255": { "Name": "Lesson_0255", "Number": 255, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 30 - Page 254: On Parole", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "it—but what I fear is torture. If they come to", "Line_02": "torture me—\"", "Line_03": "\"Jim,\" the doctor interrupted, and his voice was", "Line_04": "quite changed, \"Jim I can't have this. Whip over,", "Line_05": "and we'll run for it.\"", "Line_06": "\"Doctor,\" said I, \"I passed my word.\"", "Line_07": "\"I know, I know,\" he cried. \"We can't help", "Line_08": "that, Jim, now. I'll take it on my shoulders, holus", "Line_09": "bolus, blame and shame, my boy; but stay here, I", "Line_10": "cannot let you. Jump! One jump, and you're out,", "Line_11": "and we'll run for it like antelopes.\"", "Line_12": "\"No,\" I replied, \"you know right well you", "Line_13": "wouldn't do the thing yourself; neither you, nor", "Line_14": "squire, nor captain; and no more will I. Silver", "Line_15": "trusted me; I passed my word, and back I go. But,", "Line_16": "doctor, you did not let me finish. If they come to", "Line_17": "torture me, I might let slip a word of where the ship", "Line_18": "is; for I got the ship, part by luck and part by risk-", "Line_19": "ing, and she lies in North Inlet, on the southern beach,", "Line_20": "and just below high water. At half tide she must be", "Line_21": "high and dry.\"", "Line_22": "\"The ship!\" exclaimed the doctor.", "Line_23": "Rapidly I described to him my adventures, and he", "Line_24": "heard me out in silence.", "Line_25": "\"There is a kind of fate in this,\" he observed, when", "Line_26": "I had done. \"Every step, it's you that saves our", "Line_27": "lives; and do you suppose by any chance that we are", "Line_28": "going to let you lose yours? That would be a poor", "Line_29": "return, my boy. You found out the plot; you found" }] }, "Lesson_0256": { "Name": "Lesson_0256", "Number": 256, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 30 - Page 255: On Parole", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Ben Gunn—the best deed that ever you did, or will do,", "Line_02": "though you live to ninety. Oh, by Jupiter, and talking", "Line_03": "of Ben Gunn! why, this is the mischief in person.", "Line_04": "Silver!\" he cried, \"Silver! —I'll give you a piece of", "Line_05": "advice,\" he continued, as the cook drew near again;", "Line_06": "\"don't you be in any great hurry after that treasure.\"", "Line_07": "\"Why, sir, I do my possible, which that aint,\" said", "Line_08": "Silver. \"I can only, asking your pardon, save my life", "Line_09": "and the boy's by seeking for that treasure; and you", "Line_10": "may lay to that.\"", "Line_11": "\"Well, Silver,\" replied the doctor, \"if that is so,", "Line_12": "I'll go one step further: look out for squalls when you", "Line_13": "find it.\"", "Line_14": "\"Sir,\" said Silver, \"as between man and man,", "Line_15": "that's too much and too little. What you're after, why", "Line_16": "you left the block-house, why you given me that there", "Line_17": "chart, I don't know, now, do I? and yet I done your", "Line_18": "bidding with my eyes shut and never a word of hope!", "Line_19": "But no, this here's too much. If you won't tell me", "Line_20": "what you mean plain out, just say so, and I'll leave", "Line_21": "the helm.\"", "Line_22": "\"No,\" said the doctor, musingly, \"I've no right to", "Line_23": "say more; it's not my secret, you see, Silver, or, I give", "Line_24": "you my word, I'd tell it you. But I'll go as far with", "Line_25": "you as I dare go, and a step beyond; for I'll have my", "Line_26": "wig sorted by the captain or I'm mistaken! And, first,", "Line_27": "I'll give you a bit of hope: Silver, if we both get alive", "Line_28": "out of this wolf-trap, I'll do my best to save you, short", "Line_29": "of perjury.\"" }] }, "Lesson_0257": { "Name": "Lesson_0257", "Number": 257, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 30 - Page 256: On Parole", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Silver's face was radiant. \"You couldn't say more,", "Line_02": "I'm sure, sir, not if you was my mother,\" he cried.", "Line_03": "\"Well, that's my first concession,\" added the doctor.", "Line_04": "\"My second is a piece of advice: Keep the boy close", "Line_05": "beside you, and when you need help, halloo. I'm off to", "Line_06": "seek it for you, and that itself will show you if I speak", "Line_07": "at random. Good-bye, Jim.\"", "Line_08": "And Dr. Livesey shook hands with me through the", "Line_09": "stockade, nodded to Silver, and set off at a brisk pace", "Line_10": "into the wood." }] }, "Lesson_0258": { "Name": "Lesson_0258", "Number": 258, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 31 - Page 257: The Treasure Hunt - Flint's Pointer", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Chapter 31", "Line_02": "The Treasure Hunt - Flint's Pointer", "Line_03": "\"Jim,\" said Silver, when we were alone, \"if I saved", "Line_04": "your life, you saved mine; and I'll not forget it. I", "Line_05": "seen the doctor waving you to run for it—with the tail", "Line_06": "of my eye, I did; and I seen you say no, as plain as", "Line_07": "hearing. Jim, that's one to you. This is the first", "Line_08": "glint of hope I had since the attack failed, and I owe", "Line_09": "it you. And now, Jim, we're to go in for this here", "Line_10": "treasure hunting, with sealed orders, too, and I don't", "Line_11": "like it; and you and me must stick close, back to back", "Line_12": "like, and we'll save our necks in spite o' fate and", "Line_13": "fortune.\"", "Line_14": "Just then a man hailed us from the fire that break-", "Line_15": "fast was ready, and we were soon seated here and there", "Line_16": "about the sand over biscuit and fried junk. They had", "Line_17": "lit a fire fit to roast an ox; and it was now grown so", "Line_18": "hot that they could only approach it from the windward,", "Line_19": "and even there not without precaution. In the same", "Line_20": "wasteful spirit, they had cooked, I suppose, three times", "Line_21": "more than we could eat; and one of them, with an", "Line_22": "empty laugh, threw what was left into the fire, which", "Line_23": "blazed and roared again over this unusual fuel. I never" }] }, "Lesson_0259": { "Name": "Lesson_0259", "Number": 259, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 31 - Page 258: The Treasure Hunt - Flint's Pointer", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "in my life saw men so careless of the morrow; hand to", "Line_02": "mouth is the only word that can describe their way", "Line_03": "of doing; and what with wasted food and sleeping", "Line_04": "sentries, though they were bold enough for a brush and", "Line_05": "be done with it, I could see their entire unfitness for", "Line_06": "anything like a prolonged campaign.", "Line_07": "Even Silver, eating away, with Captain Flint upon", "Line_08": "his shoulder, had not a word of blame for their reckless-", "Line_09": "ness. And this the more surprised me, for I thought", "Line_10": "he had never shown himself so cunning as he did", "Line_11": "then.", "Line_12": "\"Ay, mates,\" said he, \"it's lucky you have Barbecue", "Line_13": "to think for you with this here head. I got what", "Line_14": "I wanted, I did. Sure enough, they have the ship.", "Line_15": "Where they have it, I don't know yet; but once we", "Line_16": "hit the treasure, we'll have to jump about and find out.", "Line_17": "And then, mates, us that has the boats, I reckon, has", "Line_18": "the upper hand.\"", "Line_19": "Thus he kept running on, with his mouth full of", "Line_20": "the hot bacon: thus he restored their hope and con-", "Line_21": "fidence, and, I more than suspect, repaired his own at", "Line_22": "the same time.", "Line_23": "\"As for hostage,\" he continued, \"that's his last", "Line_24": "talk, I guess, with them he loves so dear. I've got my", "Line_25": "piece o' news, and thanky to him for that; but it's over", "Line_26": "and done. I'll take him in a line when we go treasure-", "Line_27": "hunting, for we'll keep him like so much gold, in case", "Line_28": "of accidents, you mark, and in the meantime. Once we", "Line_29": "got the ship and treasure both, and off to sea like jolly" }] }, "Lesson_0260": { "Name": "Lesson_0260", "Number": 260, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 31 - Page 259: The Treasure Hunt - Flint's Pointer", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "companions, why, then, we'll talk Mr. Hawkins over,", "Line_02": "we will, and we'll give him his share, to be sure, for all", "Line_03": "his kindness.\"", "Line_04": "It was no wonder the men were in a good humour", "Line_05": "now. For my part, I was horribly cast down. Should", "Line_06": "the scheme he had now sketched prove feasible, Silver,", "Line_07": "already doubly a traitor, would not hesitate to adopt it.", "Line_08": "He had still a foot in either camp, and there was no", "Line_09": "doubt he would prefer wealth and freedom with the", "Line_10": "pirates to a bare escape from hanging, which was the", "Line_11": "best he had to hope on our side.", "Line_12": "Nay, and even if things so fell out that he was", "Line_13": "forced to keep his faith with Dr. Livesey, even then", "Line_14": "what danger lay before us! What a moment that", "Line_15": "would be when the suspicions of his followers turned", "Line_16": "to certainty, and he and I should have to fight for dear", "Line_17": "life—he, a cripple, and I, a boy—against five strong", "Line_18": "and active seamen!", "Line_19": "Add to this double apprehension, the mystery that", "Line_20": "still hung over the behaviour of my friends; their un-", "Line_21": "explained desertion of the stockade; their inexplicable", "Line_22": "cession of the chart; or, harder still to understand, the", "Line_23": "doctor's last warning to Silver, \"Look out for squalls", "Line_24": "when you find it;\" and you will readily believe how", "Line_25": "little taste I found in my breakfast, and with how", "Line_26": "uneasy a heart I set forth behind my captors on the", "Line_27": "quest for treasure.", "Line_28": "We made a curious figure, had any one been there", "Line_29": "to see us; all in soiled sailor clothes, and all but me" }] }, "Lesson_0261": { "Name": "Lesson_0261", "Number": 261, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 31 - Page 260: The Treasure Hunt - Flint's Pointer", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "armed to the teeth. Silver had two guns slung about", "Line_02": "him—one before and one behind—besides the great", "Line_03": "cutlass at his waist, and a pistol in each pocket of his", "Line_04": "square-tailed coat. To complete his strange appear-", "Line_05": "ance, Captain Flint sat perched upon his shoulder", "Line_06": "and gabbling odds and ends of purposeless sea-talk.", "Line_07": "I had a line about my waist, and followed obediently", "Line_08": "after the sea-cook, who held the loose end of the rope,", "Line_09": "now in his free hand, now between his powerful teeth.", "Line_10": "For all the world, I was led like a dancing bear.", "Line_11": "The other men were variously burthened; some", "Line_12": "carrying picks and shovels—for that had been the very", "Line_13": "first necessary they brought ashore from the Hispaniola", "Line_14": "—others laden with pork, bread, and brandy for the", "Line_15": "midday meal. All the stores, I observed, came from", "Line_16": "our stock; and I could see the truth of Silver's words", "Line_17": "the night before. Had he not struck a bargain with", "Line_18": "the doctor, he and his mutineers, deserted by the ship,", "Line_19": "must have been driven to subsist on clear water and the", "Line_20": "proceeds of their hunting. Water would have been", "Line_21": "little to their taste; a sailor is not usually a good shot;", "Line_22": "and, besides all that, when they were so short of", "Line_23": "eatables, it was not likely they would be very flush", "Line_24": "of powder.", "Line_25": "Well, thus equipped, we all set out—even the fellow", "Line_26": "with the broken head, who should certainly have kept", "Line_27": "in shadow—and straggled, one after another, to the", "Line_28": "beach, where the two gigs awaited us. Even these bore", "Line_29": "trace of the drunken folly of the pirates, one in a" }] }, "Lesson_0262": { "Name": "Lesson_0262", "Number": 262, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 31 - Page 261: The Treasure Hunt - Flint's Pointer", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "broken thwart, and both in their muddy and unbailed", "Line_02": "condition. Both were to be carried along with us, for", "Line_03": "the sake of safety; and so, with our numbers divided", "Line_04": "between them, we set forth upon the bosom of the", "Line_05": "anchorage.", "Line_06": "As we pulled over, there was some discussion on the", "Line_07": "chart. The red cross was, of course, far too large to be", "Line_08": "a guide; and the terms of the note on the back, as you", "Line_09": "will hear, admitted of some ambiguity. They ran, the", "Line_10": "reader may remember, thus: —", "Line_11": "\"Tall tree, Spy-glass shoulder, bearing a point to the N.", "Line_12": "of N.N.E.", "Line_13": "\"Skeleton Island E.S.E. and by E.", "Line_14": "\"Ten feet,\"", "Line_15": "A tall tree was thus the principal mark. Now,", "Line_16": "right before us, the anchorage was bounded by a plateau", "Line_17": "from two to three hundred feet high, adjoining on the", "Line_18": "north the sloping southern shoulder of the Spy-glass,", "Line_19": "and rising again towards the south into the rough, cliffy", "Line_20": "eminence called the Mizzen-mast Hill. The top of the", "Line_21": "plateau was dotted thickly with pine trees of varying", "Line_22": "height. Every here and there, one of a different species", "Line_23": "rose forty or fifty feet clear above its neighbours, and", "Line_24": "which of these was the particular \"tall tree\" of Captain", "Line_25": "Flint could only be decided on the spot, and by the", "Line_26": "readings of the compass.", "Line_27": "Yet, although that was the case, every man on", "Line_28": "board the boats had picked a favourite of his own ere" }] }, "Lesson_0263": { "Name": "Lesson_0263", "Number": 263, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 31 - Page 262: The Treasure Hunt - Flint's Pointer", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "we were half way over. Long John alone shrugging", "Line_02": "his shoulders and bidding them wait till they were", "Line_03": "there.", "Line_04": "We pulled easily, by Silver's directions, not to weary", "Line_05": "the hands prematurely; and, after quite a long passage,", "Line_06": "landed at the mouth of the second river—that which", "Line_07": "runs down a woody cleft of the Spy-glass. Thence,", "Line_08": "bending to our left, we began to ascend the slope", "Line_09": "towards the plateau.", "Line_10": "At the first outset, heavy, miry ground and a matted,", "Line_11": "marish vegetation, greatly delayed our progress; but by", "Line_12": "little and little the hill began to steepen and become", "Line_13": "stony under foot, and the wood to change its character", "Line_14": "and to grow in a more open order. It was, indeed, a", "Line_15": "most pleasant portion of the island that we were now", "Line_16": "approaching. A heavy-scented broom and many", "Line_17": "flowering shrubs had almost taken the place of", "Line_18": "grass. Thickets of green nutmeg trees were dotted", "Line_19": "here and there with the red columns and the broad", "Line_20": "shadow of the pines; and the first mingled their", "Line_21": "spice with the aroma of the others. The air, be-", "Line_22": "sides, was fresh and stirring, and this, under the", "Line_23": "sheer sunbeams, was a wonderful refreshment to our", "Line_24": "senses.", "Line_25": "The party spread itself abroad, in a fan shape, shout-", "Line_26": "ing and leaping to and fro. About the centre, and a", "Line_27": "good way behind the rest, Silver and I followed—I", "Line_28": "tethered by my rope, he ploughing, with deep pants,", "Line_29": "among the sliding gravel. From time to time," }] }, "Lesson_0264": { "Name": "Lesson_0264", "Number": 264, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 31 - Page 263: The Treasure Hunt - Flint's Pointer", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "indeed, I had to lend him a hand, or he must have", "Line_02": "missed his footing and fallen backward down the", "Line_03": "hill.", "Line_04": "We had thus proceeded for about half a mile,", "Line_05": "and were approaching the brow of the plateau,", "Line_06": "when the man upon the farthest left began to cry", "Line_07": "aloud, as if in terror. Shout after shout came", "Line_08": "from him, and the others began to run in his di-", "Line_09": "rection.", "Line_10": "\"He can't 'a' found the treasure,\" said old Morgan,", "Line_11": "hurrying past us from the right, \"for that's clean", "Line_12": "a-top.\"", "Line_13": "Indeed, as we found when we also reached the spot,", "Line_14": "it was something very different. At the foot of a pretty", "Line_15": "big pine, and involved in a green creeper, which had", "Line_16": "even partly lifted some of the smaller bones, a human", "Line_17": "skeleton lay, with a few shreds of clothing, on the", "Line_18": "ground. I believe a chill struck for a moment to", "Line_19": "every heart.", "Line_20": "\"He was a seaman,\" said George Merry, who, bolder", "Line_21": "than the rest, had gone up close, and was examining the", "Line_22": "rags of clothing. \"Leastways, this is good sea-", "Line_23": "cloth.\"", "Line_24": "\"Ay, ay,\" said Silver, \"like enough; you wouldn't", "Line_25": "look to find a bishop here, I reckon. But what", "Line_26": "sort of a way is that for bones to lie? 'Tain't in", "Line_27": "natur'!\"", "Line_28": "Indeed, on a second glance, it seemed impossible to", "Line_29": "fancy that the body was in a natural position. But for" }] }, "Lesson_0265": { "Name": "Lesson_0265", "Number": 265, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 31 - Page 264: The Treasure Hunt - Flint's Pointer", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "some disarray (the work, perhaps, of the birds that had", "Line_02": "fed upon him, or of the slow-growing creeper that had", "Line_03": "gradually enveloped his remains) the man lay perfectly", "Line_04": "straight—his feet pointing in one direction, his hands,", "Line_05": "raised above his head like a diver's, pointing directly in", "Line_06": "the opposite.", "Line_07": "\"I've taken a notion into my old numskull,\" ob-", "Line_08": "served Silver. \"Here's the compass; there's the tip-", "Line_09": "top p'int o' Skeleton Island, stickin' out like a tooth.", "Line_10": "Just take a bearing, will you, along the line of them", "Line_11": "bones.\"", "Line_12": "It was done. The body pointed straight in the", "Line_13": "direction of the island, and the compass read duly", "Line_14": "E.S.E. and by E.", "Line_15": "\"I thought so,\" cried the cook ;", "Line_16": "\"this here is a", "Line_17": "p'inter. Right up there is our line for the Pole Star", "Line_18": "and the jolly dollars. But, by thunder ! if it don't", "Line_19": "make me cold inside to think of Flint. This is one of", "Line_20": "his jokes, and no mistake. Him and these six was", "Line_21": "alone here ; he killed 'em, every man ; and this one he", "Line_22": "hauled here and laid down by compass, shiver my", "Line_23": "timbers !", "Line_24": "They're long bones, and the hair's been", "Line_25": "yellow. Ay, that would be Allardyce. You mind", "Line_26": "Allardyce, Tom Morgan ?\"", "Line_27": "\"Ay, ay,\" returned Morgan, \"I mind him ; he", "Line_28": "owed me money, he did, and took my knife ashore with", "Line_29": "him.\"", "Line_30": "\"Speaking of knives,\" said another, \"why don't", "Line_31": "we find his'n lying round? Flint warn't the man to" }] }, "Lesson_0266": { "Name": "Lesson_0266", "Number": 266, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 31 - Page 265: The Treasure Hunt - Flint's Pointer", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "pick a seaman's pocket; and the birds, I guess, would", "Line_02": "leave it be.\"", "Line_03": "\"By the powers, and that's true!\" cried Silver.", "Line_04": "\"There aint a thing left here,\" said Merry, still", "Line_05": "feeling round among the bones, \"not a copper doit nor", "Line_06": "a baccy box. It don't look nat'ral to me.\"", "Line_07": "\"No, by gum, it don't,\" agreed Silver; \"not nat'ral,", "Line_08": "nor not nice, says you. Great guns! messmates, but", "Line_09": "if Flint was living, this would be a hot spot for you and", "Line_10": "me. Six they were, and six are we; and bones is what", "Line_11": "they are now.\"", "Line_12": "\"I saw him dead with these here deadlights,\" said", "Line_13": "Morgan. \"Billy took me in. There he laid, with", "Line_14": "penny-pieces on his eyes.\"", "Line_15": "\"Dead—ay, sure enough he's dead and gone below,\"", "Line_16": "said the fellow with the bandage; \"but if ever sperrit", "Line_17": "walked, it would be Flint's. Dear heart, but he died", "Line_18": "bad, did Flint!\"", "Line_19": "\"Ay, that he did,\" observed another; \"now he", "Line_20": "raged, and now he hollered for the rum, and now he", "Line_21": "sang. 'Fifteen Men' were his only song, mates; and I", "Line_22": "tell you true, I never rightly liked to hear it since. It", "Line_23": "was main hot, and the windy was open, and I hear that", "Line_24": "old song comin' out as clear as clear—and the death-", "Line_25": "haul on the man already.\"", "Line_26": "\"Come, come,\" said Silver, \"stow this talk. He's", "Line_27": "dead, and he don't walk, that I know; leastways, he", "Line_28": "won't walk by day, and you may lay to that. Care", "Line_29": "killed a cat. Fetch ahead for the doubloons.\"" }] }, "Lesson_0267": { "Name": "Lesson_0267", "Number": 267, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 31 - Page 266: The Treasure Hunt - Flint's Pointer", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "We started, certainly; but in spite of the hot sun", "Line_02": "and the staring daylight, the pirates no longer ran", "Line_03": "separate and shouting through the wood, but kept side", "Line_04": "by side and spoke with bated breath. The terror of the", "Line_05": "dead buccaneer had fallen on their spirits." }] }, "Lesson_0268": { "Name": "Lesson_0268", "Number": 268, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 32 - Page 267: The Treasure Hunt - The Voice Among the Trees", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Chapter 32", "Line_02": "The Treasure Hunt - The Voice Among the Trees", "Line_03": "Partly from the damping influence of this alarm, partly", "Line_04": "to rest Silver and the sick folk, the whole party sat", "Line_05": "down as soon as they had gained the brow of the", "Line_06": "ascent.", "Line_07": "The plateau being somewhat tilted towards the west,", "Line_08": "this spot on which we had paused commanded a wide", "Line_09": "prospect on either hand. Before us, over the tree-tops,", "Line_10": "we beheld the Cape of the Woods fringed with surf;", "Line_11": "behind, we not only looked down upon the anchorage", "Line_12": "and Skeleton Island; but saw—clear across the spit and", "Line_13": "the eastern lowlands—a great field of open sea upon the", "Line_14": "east. Sheer above us rose the Spy-glass, here dotted", "Line_15": "with single pines, there black with precipices. There", "Line_16": "was no sound but that of the distant breakers, mounting", "Line_17": "from all round, and the chirp of countless insects in", "Line_18": "the brush. Not a man, not a sail upon the sea;", "Line_19": "the very largeness of the view increased the sense of", "Line_20": "solitude.", "Line_21": "Silver, as he sat, took certain bearings with his", "Line_22": "compass.", "Line_23": "\"There are three 'tall trees'\" said he, \"about in the" }] }, "Lesson_0269": { "Name": "Lesson_0269", "Number": 269, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 32 - Page 268: The Treasure Hunt - The Voice Among the Trees", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "right line from Skeleton Island. '", "Line_02": "Spy-glass Shoulder,'", "Line_03": "I take it, means that lower p'int there. It's child's play", "Line_04": "to find the stuff now. I've half a mind to dine", "Line_05": "first.\"", "Line_06": "\"I don't feel sharp,\" growled Morgan. \"Thinkin'", "Line_07": "o' Flint—I think it were—as done me.\"", "Line_08": "\"Ah, well, my son, you praise your stars he's dead,\"", "Line_09": "said Silver.", "Line_10": "\"He were an ugly devil,\" cried a third pirate, with", "Line_11": "a shudder; \"that blue in the face, too!\"", "Line_12": "\"That was how the rum took him,\" added Merry.", "Line_13": "\"Blue! well, I reckon he was blue. That's a true", "Line_14": "word.\"", "Line_15": "Ever since they had found the skeleton and got upon", "Line_16": "this train of thought, they had spoken lower and", "Line_17": "lower, and they had almost got to whispering by now,", "Line_18": "so that the sound of their talk hardly interrupted the", "Line_19": "silence of the wood. All of a sudden, out of the middle", "Line_20": "of the trees in front of us, a thin, high, trembling", "Line_21": "voice struck up the well-known air and words: —", "Line_22": "\"Fifteen men on the dead man's chest—", "Line_23": "Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!\"", "Line_24": "I never have seen men more dreadfully affected", "Line_25": "than the pirates. The colour went from their six", "Line_26": "faces like enchantment; some leaped to their feet,", "Line_27": "some clawed hold of others; Morgan grovelled on the", "Line_28": "ground.", "Line_29": "\"It's Flint, by !\" cried Merry." }] }, "Lesson_0270": { "Name": "Lesson_0270", "Number": 270, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 32 - Page 269: The Treasure Hunt - The Voice Among the Trees", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "The song had stopped as suddenly as it began—", "Line_02": "broken off, you would have said, in the middle of a", "Line_03": "note, as though some one had laid his hand upon the", "Line_04": "singer's mouth. Coming so far through the clear,", "Line_05": "sunny atmosphere among the green tree-tops, I", "Line_06": "thought it had sounded airily and sweetly; and the", "Line_07": "effect on my companions was the stranger.", "Line_08": "\"Come,\" said Silver, struggling with his ashen", "Line_09": "lips to get the word out, \"this won't do. Stand by", "Line_10": "to go about. This is a rum start, and I can't name", "Line_11": "the voice: but it's some one skylarking—some one", "Line_12": "that's flesh and blood, and you may lay to that.\"", "Line_13": "His courage had come back as he spoke, and some", "Line_14": "of the colour to his face along with it. Already the", "Line_15": "others had begun to lend an ear to this encourage-", "Line_16": "ment, and were coming a little to themselves, when", "Line_17": "the same voice broke out again—not this time sing-", "Line_18": "ing, but in a faint distant hail, that echoed yet fainter", "Line_19": "among the clefts of the Spy-glass.", "Line_20": "\"Darby M'Graw,\" it wailed—for that is the", "Line_21": "word that best describes the sound—\"Darby M'Graw!", "Line_22": "Darby M'Graw!\" again and again and again; and then", "Line_23": "rising a little higher, and with an oath that I leave", "Line_24": "out, \"Fetch aft the rum, Darby!\"", "Line_25": "The buccaneers remained rooted to the ground, their", "Line_26": "eyes starting from their heads. Long after the voice", "Line_27": "had died away they still stared in silence, dreadfully,", "Line_28": "before them.", "Line_29": "\"That fixes it!\" gasped one. \"Let's go.\"" }] }, "Lesson_0271": { "Name": "Lesson_0271", "Number": 271, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 32 - Page 270: The Treasure Hunt - The Voice Among the Trees", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "\"They was his last words,\" moaned Morgan, \"his", "Line_02": "last words above board.\"", "Line_03": "Dick had his Bible out, and was praying volubly.", "Line_04": "He had been well brought up, had Dick, before he came", "Line_05": "to sea and fell among bad companions.", "Line_06": "Still, Silver was unconquered. I could hear his", "Line_07": "teeth rattle in his head; but he had not yet surren-", "Line_08": "dered.", "Line_09": "\"Nobody in this here island ever heard of Darby,\"", "Line_10": "he muttered; \"not one but us that's here.\" And then,", "Line_11": "making a great effort, \"Shipmates,\" he cried, \"I'm", "Line_12": "here to get that stuff, and I'll not be beat by man nor", "Line_13": "devil. I never was feared of Flint in his life, and,", "Line_14": "by the powers, I'll face him dead. There's seven hun-", "Line_15": "dred thousand pound not a quarter of a mile from here.", "Line_16": "When did ever a gentleman o' fortune show his stern to", "Line_17": "that much dollars, for a boosy old seaman with a blue", "Line_18": "mug—and him dead, too?\"", "Line_19": "But there was no sign of re-awakening courage in", "Line_20": "his followers; rather, indeed, of growing terror at the", "Line_21": "irreverence of his words.", "Line_22": "\"Belay there, John!\" said Merry. \"Don't you", "Line_23": "cross a sperrit.\"", "Line_24": "And the rest were all too terrified to reply. They", "Line_25": "would have run away severally had they dared; but", "Line_26": "fear kept them together, and kept them close by John,", "Line_27": "as if his daring helped them. He, on his part, had", "Line_28": "pretty well fought his weakness down.", "Line_29": "\"Sperrit? Well, maybe,\" he said. \"But there's" }] }, "Lesson_0272": { "Name": "Lesson_0272", "Number": 272, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 32 - Page 271: The Treasure Hunt - The Voice Among the Trees", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "\"One thing not clear to me. There was an echo. Now,", "Line_02": "no man ever seen a sperrit with a shadow; well, then,", "Line_03": "what's he doing with an echo to him, I should like to", "Line_04": "know? That aint in natur', surely?\"", "Line_05": "This argument seemed weak enough to me. But", "Line_06": "you can never tell what will affect the superstitious,", "Line_07": "and, to my wonder, George Merry was greatly re-", "Line_08": "lieved.", "Line_09": "\"Well, that's so,\" he said. \"You've a head upon", "Line_10": "your shoulders, John, and no mistake. 'Bout ship,", "Line_11": "mates! This here crew is on a wrong tack, I do believe.", "Line_12": "And come to think on it, it was like Flint's voice, I", "Line_13": "grant you, but not just so clear-away like it, after all.", "Line_14": "It was liker somebody else's voice now—it was", "Line_15": "liker\"", "Line_16": "\"By the powers, Ben Gunn!\" roared Silver.", "Line_17": "\"Ay, and so it were,\" cried Morgan, springing on", "Line_18": "his knees. \"Ben Gunn it were!\"", "Line_19": "\"It don't make much odds, do it, now?\" asked", "Line_20": "Dick. \"Ben Gunn's not here in the body, any more'n", "Line_21": "Flint.\"", "Line_22": "But the older hands greeted this remark with scorn.", "Line_23": "\"Why, nobody minds Ben Gunn,\" cried Merry;", "Line_24": "\"dead or alive, nobody minds him.\"", "Line_25": "It was extraordinary how their spirits had returned,", "Line_26": "and how the natural colour had revived in their faces.", "Line_27": "Soon they were chatting together, with intervals of", "Line_28": "listening; and not long after, hearing no further sound,", "Line_29": "they shouldered the tools and set forth again, Merry" }] }, "Lesson_0273": { "Name": "Lesson_0273", "Number": 273, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 32 - Page 272: The Treasure Hunt - The Voice Among the Trees", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "walking first with Silver's compass to keep them on the", "Line_02": "right line with Skeleton Island. He had said the truth:", "Line_03": "dead or alive, nobody minded Ben Gunn.", "Line_04": "Dick alone still held his Bible, and looked around", "Line_05": "him as he went, with fearful glances; but he found no", "Line_06": "sympathy, and Silver even joked him on his precautions.", "Line_07": "\"I told you,\" said he—\"I told you, you had spoiled", "Line_08": "your Bible. If it aint no good to swear by, what do", "Line_09": "you suppose a sperrit would give for it? Not that!\"", "Line_10": "and he snapped his big fingers, halting a moment on his", "Line_11": "crutch.", "Line_12": "But Dick was not to be comforted; indeed, it was", "Line_13": "soon plain to me that the lad was falling sick; hastened", "Line_14": "by heat, exhaustion, and the shock of his alarm, the", "Line_15": "fever, predicted by Doctor Livesey, was evidently grow-", "Line_16": "ing swiftly higher.", "Line_17": "It was fine open walking here, upon the summit;", "Line_18": "our way lay a little down-hill, for, as I have said, the", "Line_19": "plateau tilted towards the west. The pines, great and", "Line_20": "small, grew wide apart; and even between the clumps", "Line_21": "of nutmeg and azalea, wide open spaces baked in the hot", "Line_22": "sunshine. Striking, as we did, pretty near north-west", "Line_23": "across the island, we drew, on the one hand, ever nearer", "Line_24": "under the shoulders of the Spy-glass, and on the other,", "Line_25": "looked ever wider over that western bay where I had", "Line_26": "once tossed and trembled in the coracle.", "Line_27": "The first of the tall trees was reached, and by the", "Line_28": "bearing, proved the wrong one. So with the second.", "Line_29": "The third rose nearly two hundred feet into the air" }] }, "Lesson_0274": { "Name": "Lesson_0274", "Number": 274, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 32 - Page 273: The Treasure Hunt - The Voice Among the Trees", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "above a clump of underwood; a giant of a vegetable,", "Line_02": "with a red column as big as a cottage, and a wide", "Line_03": "shadow around in which a company could have ma-", "Line_04": "noeuvred. It was conspicuous far to sea both on the east", "Line_05": "and west, and might have been entered as a sailing mark", "Line_06": "upon the chart.", "Line_07": "But it was not its size that now impressed my com-", "Line_08": "panions; it was the knowledge that seven hundred", "Line_09": "thousand pounds in gold lay somewhere buried below its", "Line_10": "spreading shadow. The thought of the money, as they", "Line_11": "drew nearer, swallowed up their previous terrors. Their", "Line_12": "eyes burned in their heads; their feet grew speedier and", "Line_13": "lighter; their whole soul was bound up in that fortune,", "Line_14": "that whole lifetime of extravagance and pleasure, that", "Line_15": "lay waiting there for each of them.", "Line_16": "Silver hobbled, grunting, on his crutch; his nostrils", "Line_17": "stood out and quivered; he cursed like a madman when", "Line_18": "the flies settled on his hot and shiny countenance; he", "Line_19": "plucked furiously at the line that held me to him, and,", "Line_20": "from time to time, turned his eyes upon me with a", "Line_21": "deadly look. Certainly he took no pains to hide his", "Line_22": "thoughts; and certainly I read them like print. In the", "Line_23": "immediate nearness of the gold, all else had been for-", "Line_24": "gotten; his promise and the doctor's warning were both", "Line_25": "things of the past; and I could not doubt that he hoped", "Line_26": "to seize upon the treasure, find and board the Hispaniola", "Line_27": "under cover of night, cut every honest throat about that", "Line_28": "island, and sail away as he had at first intended, laden", "Line_29": "with crimes and riches," }] }, "Lesson_0275": { "Name": "Lesson_0275", "Number": 275, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 32 - Page 274: The Treasure Hunt - The Voice Among the Trees", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Shaken as I was with these alarms, it was hard for", "Line_02": "me to keep up with the rapid pace of the treasure-", "Line_03": "hunters. Now and again I stumbled; and it was then", "Line_04": "that Silver plucked so roughly at the rope and launched", "Line_05": "at me his murderous glances. Dick, who had dropped", "Line_06": "behind us, and now brought up the rear, was babbling to", "Line_07": "himself both prayers and curses, as his fever kept rising.", "Line_08": "This also added to my wretchedness, and, to crown all, I", "Line_09": "was haunted by the thought of the tragedy that had", "Line_10": "once been acted on that plateau, when that ungodly", "Line_11": "buccaneer with the blue face—he who died at Savannah,", "Line_12": "singing and shouting for drink—had there, with his own", "Line_13": "hand, cut down his six accomplices. This grove, that", "Line_14": "was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, I", "Line_15": "thought; and even with the thought I could believe I", "Line_16": "heard it ringing still.", "Line_17": "We were now at the margin of the thicket.", "Line_18": "\"Huzza, mates, all together!\" shouted Merry; and", "Line_19": "the foremost broke into a run.", "Line_20": "And suddenly, not ten yards further, we beheld", "Line_21": "them stop. A low cry arose. Silver doubled his pace,", "Line_22": "digging away with the foot of his crutch like one", "Line_23": "possessed; and next moment he and I had come also to", "Line_24": "a dead halt.", "Line_25": "Before us was a great excavation, not very recent,", "Line_26": "for the sides had fallen in and grass had sprouted on the", "Line_27": "bottom. In this were the shaft of a pick broken in", "Line_28": "two and the boards of several packing-cases strewn", "Line_29": "around. On one of these boards I saw, branded with a" }] }, "Lesson_0276": { "Name": "Lesson_0276", "Number": 276, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 32 - Page 275: The Treasure Hunt - The Voice Among the Trees", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "hot iron, the name Walrus—the name of Flint's", "Line_02": "ship.", "Line_03": "All was clear to probation. The cache had been", "Line_04": "found and rilled: the seven hundred thousand pounds", "Line_05": "were gone!" }] }, "Lesson_0277": { "Name": "Lesson_0277", "Number": 277, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 33 - Page 276: The Fall of a Chieftain", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Chapter 33", "Line_02": "The Fall of a Chieftain", "Line_03": "There never was such an overturn in this world. Each", "Line_04": "of these six men was as though he had been struck.", "Line_05": "But with Silver the blow passed almost instantly. Every", "Line_06": "thought of his soul had been set full-stretch, like a", "Line_07": "racer, on that money; well, he was brought up in a", "Line_08": "single second, dead; and he kept his head, found his", "Line_09": "temper, and changed his plan before the others had had", "Line_10": "time to realise the disappointment.", "Line_11": "\"Jim,\" he whispered, \"take that, and stand by for", "Line_12": "trouble.\"", "Line_13": "And he passed me a double-barrelled pistol.", "Line_14": "At the same time he began quietly moving north-", "Line_15": "ward, and in a few steps had put the hollow between us", "Line_16": "two and the other five. Then he looked at me and", "Line_17": "nodded, as much as to say, \"Here is a narrow corner,\"", "Line_18": "as, indeed, I thought it was. His looks were now quite", "Line_19": "friendly; and I was so revolted at these constant changes,", "Line_20": "that I could not forbear whispering, \"So you've changed", "Line_21": "sides again.\"", "Line_22": "There was no time left for him to answer in. The", "Line_23": "buccaneers, with oaths and cries, began to leap, one after" }] }, "Lesson_0278": { "Name": "Lesson_0278", "Number": 278, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 33 - Page 277: The Fall of a Chieftain", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "another, into the pit, and to dig with their fingers,", "Line_02": "throwing the boards aside as they did so. Morgan", "Line_03": "found a piece of gold. He held it up with a perfect", "Line_04": "spout of oaths. It was a two-guinea piece, and it went", "Line_05": "from hand to hand among them for a quarter of a", "Line_06": "minute.", "Line_07": "\"Two guineas!\" roared Merry, shaking it at Silver.", "Line_08": "\"That's your seven hundred thousand pounds, is it?", "Line_09": "You're the man for bargains, ain't you? You're him", "Line_10": "that never bungled nothing, you wooden-headed", "Line_11": "lubber!\"", "Line_12": "\"Dig away, boys,\" said Silver, with the coolest in-", "Line_13": "solence; \"you'll find some pig-nuts and I shouldn't", "Line_14": "wonder.\"", "Line_15": "\"Pig-nuts!\" repeated Merry, in a scream. \"Mates,", "Line_16": "do you hear that? I tell you, now, that man there", "Line_17": "knew it all along. Look in the face of him, and you'll", "Line_18": "see it wrote there.\"", "Line_19": "\"Ah, Merry,\" remarked Silver, \"standing for cap'n", "Line_20": "again? You're a pushing lad, to be sure.\"", "Line_21": "But this time every one was entirely in Merry's", "Line_22": "favour. They began to scramble out of the excavation,", "Line_23": "darting furious glances behind them. One thing I ob-", "Line_24": "served, which looked well for us: they all got out upon", "Line_25": "the opposite side from Silver.", "Line_26": "Well, there we stood, two on one side, five on the", "Line_27": "other, the pit between us, and nobody screwed up high", "Line_28": "enough to offer the first blow. Silver never moved; he", "Line_29": "watched them, very upright on his crutch, and looked as" }] }, "Lesson_0279": { "Name": "Lesson_0279", "Number": 279, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 33 - Page 278: The Fall of a Chieftain", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "cool as ever I saw him. He was brave, and no mis-", "Line_02": "take.", "Line_03": "At last, Merry seemed to think a speech might help", "Line_04": "matters.", "Line_05": "\"Mates,\" says he, \"there's two of them alone there;", "Line_06": "one's the old cripple that brought us all here and", "Line_07": "blundered us down to this; the other's that cub that I", "Line_08": "mean to have the heart of. Now, mates—\"", "Line_09": "He was raising his arm and his voice, and plainly", "Line_10": "meant to lead a charge. But just then—crack! crack!", "Line_11": "crack!—three musket-shots flashed out of the thicket.", "Line_12": "Merry tumbled head foremost into the excavation; the", "Line_13": "man with the bandage spun round like a teetotum, and", "Line_14": "fell all his length upon his side, where he lay dead, but", "Line_15": "still twitching; and the other three turned and ran for", "Line_16": "it with all their might.", "Line_17": "Before you could wink, Long John had fired", "Line_18": "two barrels of a pistol into the struggling Merry;", "Line_19": "and as the man rolled up his eyes at him in the", "Line_20": "last agony, \"George,\" said he, \"I reckon I settled", "Line_21": "you.\"", "Line_22": "At the same moment the doctor, Gray, and Ben", "Line_23": "Gunn joined us, with smoking muskets, from among", "Line_24": "the nutmeg trees.", "Line_25": "\"Forward!\" cried the doctor. \"Double quick, my", "Line_26": "lads. We must head 'em off the boats.\"", "Line_27": "And we set off at a great pace, sometimes plunging", "Line_28": "through the bushes to the chest.", "Line_29": "I tell you, but Silver was anxious to keep up with" }] }, "Lesson_0280": { "Name": "Lesson_0280", "Number": 280, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 33 - Page 279: The Fall of a Chieftain", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "us. The work that man went through, leaping on his", "Line_02": "crutch till the muscles of his chest were fit to burst, was", "Line_03": "work no sound man ever equalled; and so thinks the", "Line_04": "doctor. As it was, he was already thirty yards behind", "Line_05": "us, and on the verge of strangling, when we reached the", "Line_06": "brow of the slope.", "Line_07": "\"Doctor,\" he hailed, \"see there! no hurry!\"", "Line_08": "Sure enough there was no hurry. In a more open", "Line_09": "part of the plateau, we could see the three survivors", "Line_10": "still running in the same direction as they had started,", "Line_11": "right for Mizzen-mast Hill. We were already between", "Line_12": "them and the boats; and so we four sat down to", "Line_13": "breathe, while Long John, mopping his face, came", "Line_14": "slowly up with us.", "Line_15": "\"Thank ye kindly, doctor,\" says he. \"You came", "Line_16": "in in about the nick, I guess, for me and Hawkins.", "Line_17": "And so it's you, Ben Gunn!\" he added. \"Well,", "Line_18": "you're a nice one to be sure.\"", "Line_19": "\"I'm Ben Gunn, I am,\" replied the maroon,", "Line_20": "wriggling like an eel in his embarrassment. \"And,\"", "Line_21": "he added, after a long pause, \"how do, Mr. Silver?", "Line_22": "Pretty well, I thank ye, says you.\"", "Line_23": "\"Ben, Ben,\" murmured Silver, \"to think as you've", "Line_24": "done me!\"", "Line_25": "The doctor sent back Gray for one of the pickaxes,", "Line_26": "deserted, in their flight, by the mutineers; and then as", "Line_27": "we proceeded leisurely down hill to where the boats were", "Line_28": "lying, related, in a few words, what had taken place.", "Line_29": "It was a story that profoundly interested Silver; and" }] }, "Lesson_0281": { "Name": "Lesson_0281", "Number": 281, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 33 - Page 280: The Fall of a Chieftain", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Ben Gunn, the half-idiot maroon, was the hero from", "Line_02": "beginning to end.", "Line_03": "Ben, in his long, lonely wanderings about the island,", "Line_04": "had found the skeleton—it was he that had rifled it;", "Line_05": "he had found the treasure; he had dug it up (it was", "Line_06": "the haft of his pickaxe that lay broken in the excava-", "Line_07": "tion); he had carried it on his back, in many weary", "Line_08": "journeys, from the foot of the tall pine to a cave", "Line_09": "he had on the two-pointed hill at the north-east", "Line_10": "angle of the island, and there it had lain stored in", "Line_11": "safety since two months before the arrival of the", "Line_12": "Hispaniola.", "Line_13": "When the doctor had wormed this secret from him,", "Line_14": "on the afternoon of the attack, and when, next morning", "Line_15": "he saw the anchorage deserted, he had gone to Silver,", "Line_16": "given him the chart, which was now useless—given him", "Line_17": "the stores, for Ben Gunn's cave was well supplied with", "Line_18": "goats' meat salted by himself—given anything and", "Line_19": "everything to get a chance of moving in safety", "Line_20": "from the stockade to the two-pointed hill, there to", "Line_21": "be clear of malaria and keep a guard upon the", "Line_22": "money.", "Line_23": "\"As for you, Jim,\" he said, \"it went against my", "Line_24": "heart, but I did what I thought best for those who had", "Line_25": "stood by their duty; and if you were not one of these,", "Line_26": "whose fault was it?\"", "Line_27": "That morning, finding that I was to be involved in", "Line_28": "the horrid disappointment he had prepared for the muti-", "Line_29": "neers, he had run all the way to the cave, and, leaving" }] }, "Lesson_0282": { "Name": "Lesson_0282", "Number": 282, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 33 - Page 281: The Fall of a Chieftain", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "the squire to guard the captain, had taken Gray and", "Line_02": "the maroon, and started, making the diagonal across the", "Line_03": "island, to be at hand beside the pine. Soon, however, he", "Line_04": "saw that our party had the start of him; and Ben Gunn,", "Line_05": "being fleet of foot, had been despatched in front to do", "Line_06": "his best alone. Then it had occurred to him to work", "Line_07": "upon the superstitions of his former shipmates; and he", "Line_08": "was so far successful that Gray and the doctor had", "Line_09": "come up and were already ambushed before the arrival", "Line_10": "of the treasure-hunters.", "Line_11": "\"Ah,\" said Silver, \"it were fortunate for me", "Line_12": "that I had Hawkins here. You would have let old", "Line_13": "John be cut to bits, and never given it a thought,", "Line_14": "doctor.\"", "Line_15": "\"Not a thought,\" replied Doctor Livesey, cheerily.", "Line_16": "And by this time we had reached the gigs. The", "Line_17": "doctor, with the pickaxe, demolished one of them, and", "Line_18": "then we all got aboard the other, and set out to go", "Line_19": "round by sea for North Inlet.", "Line_20": "This was a run of eight or nine miles. Silver,", "Line_21": "though he was almost killed already with fatigue,", "Line_22": "was set to an oar, like the rest of us, and we were", "Line_23": "soon skimming swiftly over a smooth sea. Soon we", "Line_24": "passed out of the straits and doubled the south-east", "Line_25": "corner of the island, round which, four days ago, we had", "Line_26": "towed the Hispaniola.", "Line_27": "As we passed the two-pointed hill, we could see the", "Line_28": "black mouth of Ben Gunn's cave, and a figure standing", "Line_29": "by it, leaning on a musket. It was the squire; and" }] }, "Lesson_0283": { "Name": "Lesson_0283", "Number": 283, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 33 - Page 282: The Fall of a Chieftain", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "we waved a handkerchief and gave him three cheers,", "Line_02": "in which the voice of Silver joined as heartily as any.", "Line_03": "Three miles farther, just inside the mouth of North", "Line_04": "Inlet, what should we meet but the Hispaniola, cruising", "Line_05": "by herself? The last flood had lifted her; and had", "Line_06": "there been much wind, or a strong tide current, as in", "Line_07": "the southern anchorage, we should never have found", "Line_08": "her more, or found her stranded beyond help. As it", "Line_09": "was, there was little amiss, beyond the wreck of the", "Line_10": "mainsail. Another anchor was got ready, and dropped", "Line_11": "in a fathom and a half of water. We all pulled round", "Line_12": "again to Rum Cove, the nearest point for Ben Gunn's", "Line_13": "treasure-house; and then Gray, single-handed, returned", "Line_14": "with the gig to the Hispaniola, where he was to pass", "Line_15": "the night on guard.", "Line_16": "A gentle slope ran up from the beach to the entrance", "Line_17": "of the cave. At the top, the squire met us. To me he", "Line_18": "was cordial and kind, saying nothing of my escapade,", "Line_19": "either in the way of blame or praise. At Silver's polite", "Line_20": "salute he somewhat flushed.", "Line_21": "\"John Silver,\" he said, \"you're a prodigious villain", "Line_22": "and impostor—a monstrous impostor, sir. I am told I", "Line_23": "am not to prosecute you. Well, then, I will not. But", "Line_24": "the dead men, sir, hang about your neck like mill-", "Line_25": "stones.\"", "Line_26": "\"Thank you kindly, sir,\" replied Long John, again", "Line_27": "saluting.", "Line_28": "\"I dare you to thank me!\" cried the squire. \"It", "Line_29": "is a gross dereliction of my duty. Stand back!\"" }] }, "Lesson_0284": { "Name": "Lesson_0284", "Number": 284, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 33 - Page 283: The Fall of a Chieftain", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "And thereupon we all entered the cave. It was a", "Line_02": "large, airy place, with a little spring and a pool of clear", "Line_03": "water, overhung with ferns. The floor was sand. Before", "Line_04": "a big fire lay Captain Smollett; and in a far corner,", "Line_05": "only duskily flickered over by the blaze, I beheld great", "Line_06": "heaps of coin and quadrilaterals built of bars of gold.", "Line_07": "That was Flint's treasure that we had come so far to", "Line_08": "seek, and that had cost already the lives of seventeen", "Line_09": "men from the Hispaniola. How many it had cost in", "Line_10": "the amassing, what blood and sorrow, what good ships", "Line_11": "scuttled on the deep, what brave men walking the plank", "Line_12": "blindfold, what shot of cannon, what shame and lies and", "Line_13": "cruelty, perhaps no man alive could tell. Yet there were", "Line_14": "still three upon that island—Silver, and old Morgan,", "Line_15": "and Ben Gunn—who had each taken his share in these", "Line_16": "crimes, as each had hoped in vain to share in the", "Line_17": "reward.", "Line_18": "\"Come in, Jim,\" said the captain. \"You're a good", "Line_19": "boy in your line, Jim; but I don't think you and me'll", "Line_20": "go to sea again. You're too much of the born favourite", "Line_21": "for me. Is that you, John Silver? What brings you", "Line_22": "here, man?\"", "Line_23": "\"Come back to my dooty, sir,\" returned Silver.", "Line_24": "\"Ah!\" said the captain; and that was all he", "Line_25": "said.", "Line_26": "What a supper I had of it that night, with all my", "Line_27": "friends around me; and what a meal it was, with Ben", "Line_28": "Gunn's salted goat, and some delicacies and a bottle of", "Line_29": "old wine from the Hispaniola. Never, I am sure, were" }] }, "Lesson_0285": { "Name": "Lesson_0285", "Number": 285, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 33 - Page 284: The Fall of a Chieftain", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "people gayer or happier. And there was Silver, sitting", "Line_02": "back almost out of the firelight, but eating heartily,", "Line_03": "prompt to spring forward when anything was wanted,", "Line_04": "even joining quietly in our laughter—the same bland,", "Line_05": "polite, obsequious seaman of the voyage out." }] }, "Lesson_0286": { "Name": "Lesson_0286", "Number": 286, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 34 - Page 285: And Last", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Chapter 34", "Line_02": "And Last", "Line_03": "The next morning we fell early to work, for the", "Line_04": "transportation of this great mass of gold near a mile by", "Line_05": "land to the beach, and thence three miles by boat to the", "Line_06": "Hispaniola, was a considerable task for so small a number", "Line_07": "of workmen. The three fellows still abroad upon the", "Line_08": "Island did not greatly trouble us; a single sentry on", "Line_09": "the shoulder of the hill was sufficient to insure us", "Line_10": "against any sudden onslaught, and we thought, besides,", "Line_11": "they had had more than enough of fighting.", "Line_12": "Therefore the work was pushed on briskly. Gray", "Line_13": "and Ben Gunn came and went with the boat, while the", "Line_14": "rest during their absences, piled treasure on the beach.", "Line_15": "Two of the bars, slung in a rope's-end, made a good", "Line_16": "load for a grown man—one that he was glad to walk", "Line_17": "slowly with. For my part, as I was not much use at", "Line_18": "carrying, I was kept busy all day in the cave, packing", "Line_19": "the minted money into bread-bags.", "Line_20": "It was a strange collection, like Billy Bones's hoard", "Line_21": "for the diversity of coinage, but so much larger and so", "Line_22": "much more varied that I think I never had more", "Line_23": "pleasure than in sorting them. English, French," }] }, "Lesson_0287": { "Name": "Lesson_0287", "Number": 287, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 34 - Page 286: And Last", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Spanish, Portuguese, Georges, and Louises, doubloons", "Line_02": "and double guineas and moidores and sequins, the", "Line_03": "pictures of all the kings of Europe for the last hundred", "Line_04": "years, strange Oriental pieces stamped with what looked", "Line_05": "like wisps of string or bits of spider's web, round pieces", "Line_06": "and square pieces, and pieces bored through the middle,", "Line_07": "as if to wear them round your neck—nearly every", "Line_08": "variety of money in the world must, I think, have found", "Line_09": "a place in that collection; and for number, I am sure", "Line_10": "they were like autumn leaves, so that my back ached", "Line_11": "with stooping and my fingers with sorting them out.", "Line_12": "Day after day this work went on; by every evening", "Line_13": "a fortune had been stowed aboard, but there was another", "Line_14": "fortune waiting for the morrow; and all this time we", "Line_15": "heard nothing of the three surviving mutineers.", "Line_16": "At last—I think it was on the third night—the", "Line_17": "doctor and I were strolling on the shoulder of the hill", "Line_18": "where it overlooks the lowlands of the isle, when, from", "Line_19": "out the thick darkness below, the wind brought us a", "Line_20": "noise between shrieking and singing. It was only a", "Line_21": "snatch that reached our ears, followed by the former", "Line_22": "silence.", "Line_23": "'Heaven forgive them,' said the doctor; 'tis the", "Line_24": "mutineers!'", "Line_25": "'All drunk, sir,' struck in the voice of Silver from", "Line_26": "behind us.", "Line_27": "Silver, I should say, was allowed his entire liberty,", "Line_28": "and, in spite of daily rebuffs, seemed to regard himself", "Line_29": "once more as quite a privileged and friendly dependant." }] }, "Lesson_0288": { "Name": "Lesson_0288", "Number": 288, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 34 - Page 287: And Last", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Indeed, it was remarkable how well he bore these", "Line_02": "slights, and with what unwearying politeness he kept", "Line_03": "on trying to ingratiate himself with all. Yet, I think,", "Line_04": "none treated him better than a dog; unless it was Ben", "Line_05": "Gunn, who was still terribly afraid of his old quarter-", "Line_06": "master, or myself, who had really something to thank", "Line_07": "him for; although for that matter, I suppose, I had", "Line_08": "reason to think even worse of him than anybody else,", "Line_09": "for I had seen him meditating a fresh treachery upon", "Line_10": "the plateau. Accordingly, it was pretty gruffly that", "Line_11": "the doctor answered him.", "Line_12": "\"Drunk or raving,\" said he.", "Line_13": "\"Right you were, sir,\" replied Silver; \"and", "Line_14": "precious little odds which, to you and me.\"", "Line_15": "\"I suppose you would hardly ask me to call you", "Line_16": "a humane man,\" returned the doctor, with a sneer,", "Line_17": "\"and so my feelings may surprise you, Master Silver.", "Line_18": "But if I were sore they were raving—as I am morally", "Line_19": "certain one, at least, of them is down with fever—I", "Line_20": "should leave this camp, and, at whatever risk to my own", "Line_21": "carcase, take them the assistance of my skill.\"", "Line_22": "\"Ask your pardon, sir, you would be very wrong,\"", "Line_23": "quoth Silver. \"You would lose your precious life, and", "Line_24": "you may lay to that. I'm on your side now, hand and", "Line_25": "glove; and I shouldn't wish for to see the party weakened,", "Line_26": "let alone yourself, seeing as I know what I owes you.", "Line_27": "But these men down there, they couldn't keep their word", "Line_28": "—no, not supposing they wished to; and what's more,", "Line_29": "they couldn't believe as you could.\"" }] }, "Lesson_0289": { "Name": "Lesson_0289", "Number": 289, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 34 - Page 288: And Last", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "\"No,\" said the doctor. \"You're the man to keep", "Line_02": "your word, we know that.\"", "Line_03": "Well, that was about the last news we had of the", "Line_04": "three pirates. Only once we heard a gunshot a great", "Line_05": "way off, and supposed them to be hunting. A council", "Line_06": "was held, and it was decided that we must desert them", "Line_07": "on the island—to the huge glee, I must say, of Ben", "Line_08": "Gunn, and with the strong approval of Gray. We left", "Line_09": "a good stock of powder and shot, the bulk of the salt", "Line_10": "goat, a few medicines, and some other necessaries, tools,", "Line_11": "clothing, a spare sail, a fathom or two of rope, and, by", "Line_12": "the particular desire of the doctor, a handsome present", "Line_13": "of tobacco.", "Line_14": "That was about our last doing on the island. Before", "Line_15": "that, we had got the treasure stowed, and had shipped", "Line_16": "enough water and the remainder of the goat meat, in", "Line_17": "case of any distress; and at last, one fine morning, we", "Line_18": "weighed anchor, which was about all that we could", "Line_19": "manage, and stood out of North Inlet, the same colours", "Line_20": "flying that the captain had flown and fought under at", "Line_21": "the palisade.", "Line_22": "The three fellows must have been watching us closer", "Line_23": "than we thought for, as we soon had proved. For,", "Line_24": "coming through the narrows, we had to lie very near the", "Line_25": "southern point, and there we saw all three of them", "Line_26": "kneeling together on a spit of sand, with their arms", "Line_27": "raised in supplication. It went to all our hearts, I", "Line_28": "think, to leave them in that wretched state; but we", "Line_29": "could not risk another mutiny; and to take them home" }] }, "Lesson_0290": { "Name": "Lesson_0290", "Number": 290, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 34 - Page 289: And Last", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "for the gibbet would have been a cruel sort of kindness.", "Line_02": "The doctor hailed them and told them of the stores we", "Line_03": "had left, and where they were to find them. But they", "Line_04": "continued to call us by name, and appeal to us, for God's", "Line_05": "sake, to be merciful, and not leave them to die in such a", "Line_06": "place.", "Line_07": "At last, seeing the ship still bore on her course, and", "Line_08": "was now swiftly drawing out of earshot, one of them—", "Line_09": "I know not which it was—leapt to his feet with a hoarse", "Line_10": "cry, whipped his musket to his shoulder, and sent a shot", "Line_11": "whistling over Silver's head and through the main-sail.", "Line_12": "After that, we kept under cover of the bulwarks, and", "Line_13": "when next I looked out they had disappeared from the", "Line_14": "spit, and the spit itself had almost melted out of sight", "Line_15": "in the growing distance. That was, at least, the end of", "Line_16": "that; and before noon, to my inexpressible joy, the", "Line_17": "highest rock of Treasure Island had sunk into the blue", "Line_18": "round of sea.", "Line_19": "We were so short of men, that every one on board", "Line_20": "had to bear a hand—only the captain lying on a mattress", "Line_21": "in the stern and giving his orders; for, though greatly", "Line_22": "recovered he was still in want of quiet. We laid her", "Line_23": "head for the nearest port in Spanish America, for we", "Line_24": "could not risk the voyage home without fresh hands;", "Line_25": "and as it was, what with baffling winds and a couple of", "Line_26": "fresh gales, we were all worn out before we reached it.", "Line_27": "It was just at sundown when we cast anchor in a", "Line_28": "most beautiful land-locked gulf, and were immediately", "Line_29": "surrounded by shore boats full of negroes, and Mexican" }] }, "Lesson_0291": { "Name": "Lesson_0291", "Number": 291, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 34 - Page 290: And Last", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "Indians, and half-bloods, selling fruits and vegetables,", "Line_02": "and, offering to dive for bits of money. 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The", "Line_16": "maroon had connived at his escape in a shore boat", "Line_17": "some hours ago, and he now assured us he had only", "Line_18": "done so to preserve our lives, which would certainly", "Line_19": "have been forfeit if \"that man with the one leg had", "Line_20": "stayed aboard.\"", "Line_21": "But this was not all. The sea-cook", "Line_22": "had not gone empty handed. He had cut through a", "Line_23": "bulkhead unobserved, and had removed one of the sacks", "Line_24": "of coin, worth, perhaps, three or four hundred guineas,", "Line_25": "to help him on his further wanderings.", "Line_26": "I think we were all pleased to be so cheaply quit of", "Line_27": "him.", "Line_28": "Well, to make a long story short, we got a few", "Line_29": "hands on board, made a good cruise home, and the", "Line_30": "Hispaniola reached Bristol just as Mr. Blandly was" }] }, "Lesson_0292": { "Name": "Lesson_0292", "Number": 292, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 34 - Page 291: And Last", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "beginning to think of fitting out her consort. Five", "Line_02": "men only of those who had sailed returned with her.", "Line_03": "\"Drink and the devil had done for the rest,\" with a", "Line_04": "vengeance; although, to be sure, we were not quite", "Line_05": "in so bad a case as that other ship they sang about:", "Line_06": "\"With one man of her crew alive,", "Line_07": "What put to sea with seventy-five.\"", "Line_08": "All of us had an ample share of the treasure, and", "Line_09": "used it wisely or foolishly, according to our natures.", "Line_10": "Captain Smollett is now retired from the sea. Gray", "Line_11": "not only saved his money, but, being suddenly smit", "Line_12": "with the desire to rise, also studied his profession; and", "Line_13": "he is now mate and part owner of a fine full-rigged", "Line_14": "ship; married besides, and the father of a family. As", "Line_15": "for Ben Gunn, he got a thousand pounds, which he", "Line_16": "spent or lost in three weeks, or, to be more exact, in", "Line_17": "nineteen days, for he was back begging on the twentieth.", "Line_18": "Then he was given a lodge to keep, exactly as he had", "Line_19": "feared upon the island; and he still lives, a great", "Line_20": "favourite, though something of a butt, with the country", "Line_21": "boys, and a notable singer in church on Sundays and", "Line_22": "saints' days.", "Line_23": "Of Silver we have heard no more. That formidable", "Line_24": "seafaring man with one leg has at last gone clean out of", "Line_25": "my life; but I daresay he met his old negress, and per-", "Line_26": "haps still lives in comfort with her and Captain Flint.", "Line_27": "It is to be hoped so, I suppose, for his chances of com-", "Line_28": "fort in another world are very small." }] }, "Lesson_0293": { "Name": "Lesson_0293", "Number": 293, "IndividualizedLessonPassingCriteria": [{ "AccuracyRequirement": 50.0, "SpeedRequirement": 10 }], "Description": "Part 6 - Chapter 34 - Page 292: And Last", "Lines": [{ "Line_01": "The bar silver and the arms still lie, for all that I", "Line_02": "know, where Flint buried them; and certainly they shall", "Line_03": "lie there for me. Oxen and wain-ropes would not", "Line_04": "bring me back again to that accursed island; and the", "Line_05": "worst dreams that ever I have are when I hear the", "Line_06": "surf booming about its coasts, or start upright in bed,", "Line_07": "with the sharp voice of Captain Flint still ringing in", "Line_08": "my ears:", "Line_09": "\"Pieces of eight!", "Line_10": "pieces of eight!\"" }] } }] }