To the Hesitating Purchaser

Words you’ll meet in this part (6)

sailor: A person who works on a ship or boat.
schooners: A type of sailing vessel with two or more masts, typically fore-and-aft rigged.
maroons: Descendants of escaped African slaves in the Americas, especially in the Caribbean and Suriname.
buccaneers: Pirates or privateers, especially those who operated in the Caribbean during the 17th century.
crave: To have an intense desire for something.
appetites: A natural desire to satisfy bodily needs, especially hunger.

Treasure Island 6 new words

To the Hesitating Purchaser

If tales to sailor tunes,
Storm and adventure, heat and cold,
If , islands, and
And and buried Gold,
And all the old romance, retold
Exactly in the ancient way,
Can please, as me they pleased of old,
The wiser youngsters of today:

—So be it, and fall on! If not,
If studious youth no longer ,
His ancient forgot,
Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave,
Or Cooper of the wood and wave:
So be it, also! And may I
And all my pirates share the grave
Where these and their creations lie!

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