Long John Silver
speaker
1,579 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 9 Aug
Long John Silver’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I was steering, while he and Red Ruth, two fresh men, were at the oars.
The tide keeps washing her down.
Could you pull a little stronger?
Not without swamping the boat, said he.
You must bear up, sir, if you please.
Bear up until you see your gaining.
I tried and found by experiment that the tide kept sweeping us westward until I had laid her head due east, or just about right angles to the way we ought to go.
We'll never get ashore at this rate, said I.
If it's the only course that we can lie, sir, we must even lie it, returned the captain.
We must keep upstream, you see, sir, he went on.
The current's less already, sir.
said the man Grey, who was sitting in the foresheets.
You can ease her off a bit.
Thank you, my man, said I, quite as if nothing had happened, for we had all quietly made up our minds to treat him like one of ourselves.
Suddenly the captain spoke up again, and I thought his voice was a little changed.
The gun, said he.
I have thought of that, said I, for I had made sure he was thinking of a bombardment of the fort.
They could never get the gun ashore, and if they did, they could never haul it through the woods.
Look astern, doctor, replied the captain.
We had entirely forgotten the long nine, and there to our horror were the five rogues busy about her, getting off her jacket, as they called the stout tarpaulin cover under which she sailed.
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