Decipherin’ Blackbeard: What’s he really saying?
Read each quote from The Not-So-Jolly Roger. Try to explain what the
underlined portion of each of Blackbeard’s quotes really means.
Page 19 – “Call out the rest of your spying monkeys. Let’s fight to the death
and the Devil take the hindmost.”
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Page 26 – “Blast it all,” growled Blackbeard. “If that sea-rat crew of mine
walked all the prisoners off the plank, I’m going to have to cut off some
heads.”
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Page 28 – “And now I might ask you barnacle for brains – where might we
find our next treasure?” The first mate and the wild band of cutthroats
looked at their feet.”
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Page 44 – “Sorry, lad,” said Blackbeard. “If we sailed into New York, me and
this whole bloody bunch would be swinging from a noose in a minute.”
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