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 for the upset, to flatten Legs's head against the window frame.

"And listen here," he added, as if seized by a sudden inspiration. "Did you boys know that Blackboard used to scout around Cape Peril? Tell you what! Maybe we'll run across some buried treasure down there—doubloons and pieces-of-eight, shiver my timbers."

"Who in thunder is Blackbeard?" asked Jimmy, becoming interested at once.

"Gee! You never heard of Blackbeard? He was a fe-rocious pirate whose real name was Teach, from over in Accomac county on the Eastern Shore. He raised Cain with the merchant boats on the Virginia coast till the sea cops got on his tracks and he had to light out to Albemarle Sound. He operated down there for a while, till a ship from up this way jumped his boat and killed most of his men, and I bet you something pretty that those who got away hid their coin on the shore somewhere. Wouldn't it be funny if we ran across some of it?"

"You're right it would! Where did you see that, Cat, in he newspaper?" queried Jimmy.

"Golly Moses, Jimmy. You think you're