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I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow--a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white. I remember him looking round the cover and whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards:

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@oristarA,

Brilliant story.

I think "corner" has been wrongly written as "cover". Look it up in a different version of the book.

"Them as die'll be the lucky ones."- L J Silver

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I have a copy of Treasure Island . . . around here somewhere. I'll go look it up . . . maybe . . . later . . .

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@McTag,

What does the "corner" refer to then?

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@oristarA,

He was behaving furtively. He was expecting me to come after him, and they did. He was in fear of his life. "Corner" refers to any corner of any building he was near. He was continually checking no potential attackers were creeping up on him.

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@McTag,

McTag wrote:

He was behaving furtively. He was expecting me to come after him, and they did. He was in fear of his life. "Corner" refers to any corner of any building he was near. He was continually checking no potential attackers were creeping up on him.

　　Thank you.

The "no" here refers to "any"?

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