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"No, we didn't knoho you was"

"Let it be so Let me be a man of no name A name is of no

consequence, and neither am I"

"Sho, now, that ain't so I never seen a better--now, I never seen--"

Jean Lafitte's reticence in friendship, again, was getting the better

of him

"So we said we'd call you Black Bart," added L'Olonnois

"That is a ht "At

present, I can find no objection to it, except that I wear no beard at

all and would have a red or brown one if I did; and that Black Bart

was rather a pirate of the land than of the sea"

"Was he?" queried L'Olonnois "Wasn't he a pirate, too, never?"

"There was a famous pirate chief known as Bluebeard or Blackbeard, and

it may be, sometimes, they called him Black Bart"

"Wasn't he a awful desper't sort of pirate?"

"He is said to have been"

"It sounds like a awful desper't nah

he'd fill up his ship with captured maidens, an' put all rivals to the

sword"

"Such, indeed, shipmate," said I, "was his reputation"

"Well," concluded L'Olonnois, "we couldn't think o' any better name'n

that, because we know that is just what you would do"

(So, then, !) "Wasn't you never a pirate before, honest?" queried Lafitte at this

juncture "Because, you seem like a real pirate to us We been, lots

of times, over on the lake"