Crime Classics - "Blackbeards 14th Wife Why She Was No Good for Him" (Old Time Radio, 1953)

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In the Caribbean in 1714, a woman called Hannah trims
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the black beard of Edward Teach, the pirate known as Blackbeard,
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after a battle.
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That domestic moment opens.
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CBS Radio's Crime Classics. Episode 20, Blackbeard's 14th wife, why
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she was no good for him. First broadcast November 11th, 1953.
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Thomas Highland leads us into a dramatized account of Blackbeard
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and Hannah, tracing the relationship that brings trouble.
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To the notorious pirate. Lou Merrill appears as Thomas Highland,
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with Alistair Duncan, Betty Harford, Joseph Kearns, Elliot Lewis, and
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Richard Peel in the cast. The script is by Morton
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Fine and David Friedkin. Elliot Lewis produced and directed with
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music by Bernard Herrmann. Ladies and gentlemen, Crime Classics. And now,
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our story begins.
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Good evening.
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This is Crime Classics. I am Thomas Highland with another
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true story of crime.
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Listen.
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That's a pair of scissors, hand-wrought in gold in the
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shape of a peacock. The young lady who's using them
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is trimming her husband's beard. The beard has just been
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washed to get the blood out of it. For a
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few hours ago out on the bounding main, her husband
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stabbed a few fellows from up close. And the beard
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has been perfumed too to get the gunpowder and sulfur
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smells out of it because.
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There's just been a battle.
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And now the beard is being trimmed before curling because
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her husband is very vain about his beard. It is
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a black beard, which caused some 18th century pundit to
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dub him Blackbeard.
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His real name, Edward Teach.
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Profession, pirate. His wife, Hannah. Hannah's all done. The beard's
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all ready for curling. Such a good wife.
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Oh, no, she wasn't.
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Tonight, my report to you on Blackbeard's 14th wife. Why,
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she was no good for him.
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Crime Classics, a series of true crime stories from the
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records and newspapers of every land and every time. Your
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host each week, Mr. Thomas Hyland, connoisseur of crime, student
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of violence, and teller of murders. Now, once again, Thomas Hyland.
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¶ ¶.
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The year of 1714. The place is the Caribbean. Two
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vessels locked in combat. One flying the skull and bones.
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The other, the three-pelleted gonfalon of the Duke de la Saint-Albain.
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The very Duke de la Saint-Albain who boasted to history
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that his 40-gun vessel, La Panque, would never be boarded
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by pirates. Well, it was, wasn't it? And the Duke,
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he was defending himself against a pirate, Edward Teach, by name.
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And here's what was happening. Teach had just disengaged into
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the cart line. The Duke parries hot. There goes Teach
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into the valet straw, calculated to throw the Duke off balance.
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But the Duke.
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Parries, goes into a doublet, a moulinet now, lunges, parries,
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and Teach faints in the advance.
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One-two, lunges.
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And the Duke goes down without a sound. Which, as
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you will recall, is the way the Duke swore he
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would die. So Edward Teach and his pirates won the
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prize La Panque, renamed it Queen Anne's Revenge, and sailed
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disguised as merchant man into Jamaica. Here, in a small
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waterfront cafe, he made friends.
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Now, let's drink a toast, eh, Captain? Aye, I'll make
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you one. I drink to Captain Edward Teach. To yourself, Captain?
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To Captain Edward Teach, whose name's going to be known about.
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What a one you are. Isn't he a one, mate? Oh, he's.
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A one.
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You shot my captain? You rather wish it was you.
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You shot me, Captain Teach.
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I would not be able to drink to Captain Teach.
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Drink you? Don't shoot me, Captain. I drink high to
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Captain Teach.
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I drink high to Captain Teach, whose name going to
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be known about.
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Drain it. Captain. Drain it. or I'll let what you're
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drunk out again.
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To Captain Edward Teach.
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I need me a mate. You'll be mate to Captain Teach.
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Aye.
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Aye.
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That's how Edward Teach got a first mate. His name
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was Kerf. And you might like to know that later
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in his career, Kerf struck out on his own. His
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own vessel, crew, and Jolly Roger. But Kerf, in his
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very first encounter with a Britisher, got pinned to the
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mast by a cutlass. So we know that his period
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of association with Teach was happier than when he worked
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for himself. Teach and Kerf sailed from Jamaica, where they'd met,
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to Nassau.
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On the way....
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And they captured the sloop Invincible, threw all her hands
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to the sharks, took aboard her booty, then scuttled her.
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And in Nassau, on the silver sands of Nassau, when
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the silver moon was younger than it is now.
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It's so silky and curlsome and beautiful.
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Some call me Blackbeard.
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Blackbeard.
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Well.
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The name is apt.
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Hannah.
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Oh, so silly.
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How many years have you, Hannah?
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Enough to let the wisdom in.
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Of what?
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Of men. Yes, even men with black beards.
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But none such as mine.
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None, sir. It is true.
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How many years have you, Hannah? Actual years.
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Six and ten.
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Yes. Well, your wife to me.
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Such is you when you have no wife.
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Here I have no wife in the Bahamas.
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But elsewhere?
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Mary, Genevieve, Margo, Prudence, Molly, Sharon.
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How many?
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Thirteen. Thirteen, Hannah. A number which is not lucky.
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And this is the reason you wish to wife me?
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The touch you have with my beard. I'm lonely for it.
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I'll marry with you, but.
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But what?
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This pirating of yours... What of it? You play at it.
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How play?
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You'll be one of many pirates. Small men with small
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wants and small names. Do you not wish a large name?
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Some call me Blackbeard.
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Then make the most of it.
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What do you know of pirates?
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Look, look to me.
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And.
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Fan out your beard.
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So.
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And in braids over your ears.
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So.
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And punk to light among its silk. And under your
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hat lighted matches. Oh, what a fearsome thing. What terror
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could you conjure, black beard of Hades? Well, well, what
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think you?
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Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. I would kiss you.
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Then do it. And now I wish a wish to make.
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Woman, a wedding wish, that's what.
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Yes.
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Then name it.
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Shall I?
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The highest star that sends a glimmer on, yours. The
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moon that orbs a silver on darkened sea, yours.
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And the sun that... Oh, poo.
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Huh?
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Poo, I said. I wish none of these.
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Then what?
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This island. This Nassau. What laughter.
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That you have but 16 years and such a dream.
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This island. I want it.
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And you shall have it.
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Now.
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Later.
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What manner of rapscallions be you two?
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When my mate has a craving for an apple, he
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has no care whose table it is off, nor yours.
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The governor's.
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And I sentence both of you to the gibbet.
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For eating an apple? For murder.
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For the murder of my guard.
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It was the only way we could get to see you.
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Oh?
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And what profession do you have, besides rapscallory, that is?
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Piracy.
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What say you?
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Having finished of the apple, my mate says piracy.
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And I say it twice. I sentence the two of
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you to the gibbet. Guards, take these two rags to
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hang on it.
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Haste not, Governor.
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Oh?
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Haste not, because I say. Saying? I am here on
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an errand of romance. I am here on an errand
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of beauty.
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Oh?
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I have this morning been wed to a girl of
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ten and six.
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Hmm.
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I fight back the salty tears.
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You will weep. Make me weep, condemned man.
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Aye.
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This girl of ten and six, she wishes a wedding gift.
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How like a maiden. She wishes this island, this city
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and all that's in it.
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Then I will instruct hangman to hang thee by a
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rapid method he knows. So thy bride cannot ask thee
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for the world.
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Just this island. And she will have it.
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Oh?
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Oh, indeed. If my calculations are correct. What say you, mate?
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Take these clowns and... What is this?
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Go to the window and you will see it, Governor.
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Four sloops there are of yours in the harbor. They
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will die there.
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My vessel, Queen Anne's Revenge, and the men that's on
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will sink your ships and block your harbor and hold
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captive your city. Say ho, Governor, so long as your
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mouth is open. Say ho and believe it. I'll get
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you to the window and look.
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The governor then gave apples to everybody. Everybody except Edward Teach.
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Him he gave the Bahama Islands. It was a good thing, too,
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else Nassau would have been put to the torch. All
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the pirates enjoyed this state of affairs very much.
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No wonder.
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Let us look in on a typical week in the
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life of Blackbeard's pirates. Monday, leave Nassau and pick up
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the trade winds, straddle the Gulf Stream someplace, and wait
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for a prey.
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Then.
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Frenchmen to salmon!
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Then.
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Right on, Bantali, Roger!
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Then... Hand me my beard and hair matches.
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Then.
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How do I look?
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Terrifying! The French will quiver in their silk!
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And then....
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And Blackbeard never lost a fight. True, some of his
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men would get killed and have to be given to
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the sea, but the survivors never had it so good.
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Like as not, they were back in Nassau by Friday night,
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and there were welcome arms to greet them with Caribbean
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poultices to soothe their wounds. And on Saturday night, what
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they liked to do best was pay homage to their leader.
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I give you Captain Edward Teach. I give you Blackbeard,
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whose name is known about.
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Oh, they love you so much, Edward.
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And this place.
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It's a pity.
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What is?
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Walk with me, Edward, outside a while. Yes. I said, Edward,
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that it's a pity.
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And I asked, what is?
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That we shall leave here soon.
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But these six months.
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Have you noticed that less and less ships appear?
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Aye, that is so.
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But this, there are many ships along the Carolina coast.
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Aye.
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And so?
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Many ships which carry provisions and stores to the colonies...
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And many ships bearing riches back to Europe in return.
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You're a bright tuggling.
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Good wife to you.
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Aye. Aye, indeed.
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Wait.
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Wait?
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Will we do it? Will we go to the Carolines?
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But, Nassau, this I gave to you and hardly have
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you used it.
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I've used it enough. Now the Carolines.
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If you wish it.
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I wish it.
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Yes. Good wife.
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Silky beard. Curlsome, silky black beard.
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They sailed a week later.
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And the night before they disembarked on the shores of
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North Carolina, Blackbeard and his pirate crew gave Mrs. Blackbeard
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a party on her birthday. She was ten and seven.
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You are listening to Crime Classics and your host, Thomas Hyland.
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Dramatic actors play comedy roles. Comedians interpret the drama. This
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Friday night, as CBS Radio's stage struck, introduces that exclusive
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theatrical fraternity, The Players. Participants will be Franklin P. Adams,
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Gene Hirschhold, Jimmy Cagney, Ray Bolger, Bobby Clark, Charles Coburn,
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Cedric Hardwick, Bert Lahr, Charles Lawton, and hosts more of
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The Players. It's Friday night on CBS Radio's Stage Struck,
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now heard half an hour later on most of these
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same stations. And now once again, Thomas Highland and the
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second act of Crime Classics and his report to you
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on Blackbeard's 14th wife, why she was no good for him.
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¶ ¶.
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I would like to say a few words about governors.
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New world governors, vintage, early 1700s. First of all, I
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would like to say that many of them had brothers-in-law
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back in England at court.
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Connections.
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Or else they had won an important battle. Or took
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part in an important scandal. Or they were just fellows
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who the king or queen didn't want in the old
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country anymore. Some of the colonial governors of this era
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were wise and intelligent administrators, but others were cheaters, that is, thieves.
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That is, they stole their colonies blind. Let us then
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look in on a scene. The governor of North Carolina
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and Edward Teach, a pirate. standing in the reception room
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of the governor's mansion with their arms about each other's shoulders. I, uh,
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hear they call you Blackbeard.
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Yes.
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I hear you stick lighted matches in your beard and
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in your hair.
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Yes.
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Just don't do it.
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When I'm around. Just don't go to sea, Governor.
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Why should I?
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It's good here in North Carolina, isn't it? Oh, better.
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Since you surrendered to me, the people cheer me when
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I walk the streets.
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And they cheer me, too, since you issued the writ
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granting amnesty to me and my men.
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It's a good feeling.
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Worth a thousand gold pieces you paid me?
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My wife said you would have been satisfied with... Five hundred.
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How is your wife? Very good. She was right. Pirate. Governor.
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Call me pirate again.
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Pirate. Sea robber. Swashbuckler.
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Listen.
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Yes?
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Let's conspire. Again? Again. Good. The men are restless. They're grumbling.
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Oh?
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They want to go to sea again.
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And they want a good fat galleon to plunder.
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Yes.
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The vessel Angel's Head is due to arrive about a
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week from now from Portsmouth. Oh?
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Carrying what?
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Sugar, gold, silk, and two ladies from the court.
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A week from now?
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Yes.
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And, Captain Teach, the two ladies from the court, one
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of them is Lady Barbara Falmouth. You must know why
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she's leaving England.
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As I heard.
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But it's true, every word of it.
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And, Captain. Aye.
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Of the rest of the booty.
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Fifty percent.
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Like always.
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Like always.
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I'll walk with you to the door.
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Blackbeard went immediately then to the den where his pirates
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were grumbling and told them the news. They stopped grumbling,
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hailed him a merry, merry, merry lad, and sharpened their cutlasses.
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A few days later, they put to sea and.
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The results of which, sugar, gold, silk confiscated, two ladies
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of the court never heard of again, and the ship
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Angel's Head put to the torch. This was just about
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the way things went. A chat with the governor.
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The ship Las Flores from Lisbon doing a fortnight, Captain.
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Tell the boys.
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Put to sea and.
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Then... Half for you, Governor, half for me.
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And once, after a particularly successful sortie... Half for you, Governor,
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half for me.
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Tonight we shall have a ball.
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Good.
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Bring your wife.
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I will.
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And this Lieutenant Maynard is Hannah Teach.
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Delighted.
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Lieutenant of what? You'll excuse me. Lieutenant of what?
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Of the Navy, His Majesty's. Miss Teach. Mrs... You're joking.
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For nearly two years now. Edward Teach is my husband.
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Edward Teach? Blackbeard?
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Yes.
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Would you care to meet him?
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Well.
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My husband's a big man and a strong man. Are
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you frightened to meet him, Lieutenant?
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I would very much like to meet your husband. Where
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is he?
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He's... He was standing there a moment ago speaking with
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the governor's lady.
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Then another time. Come.
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We will look for him.
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Really?
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Come.
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Very well.
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Edward? Edward?
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But that was your husband who we saw pass us
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and go toward the... Hush. Why did you not call
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out to him then? Hush.
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Really?
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Bend me.
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Really? Yes. Very well. Oh, how soft is your cheek.
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Soft and beardless.
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Your husband's beard is truly magnificent.
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It reeks either of battle tar or perfume. I cannot
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stand it.
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Really? Really.
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Mrs. Teach.
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If you say it softly, you may say Hannah. Hannah.
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Just so.
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How many years have you?
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Ten and eight.
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I have twenty and one.
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Bend to me again the softness of your cheek.
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I want to.
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Oh, so young.
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As you are young.
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Hold me.
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I want to. Hannah?
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Yes?
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No, what I mean is... Where does your husband hide
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his ship?
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What?
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I am curious of it. Where does he hide his ship?
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In the province of friendship. The third inlet off the river. Why?
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I was curious of it.
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Do you have a curiosity?
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About all things.
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About me?
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Yes.
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Oh, yes. Yes.
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I hate the governor of North Carolina.
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Of course you do.
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Now listen to me, Lieutenant Maynard.
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Before I was governor of Virginia back in England, do
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you know what he did to me?
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Well, I heard.
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You heard?
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How did you hear?
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The governor of North Carolina, he tells... I hate him!
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And he shall have his due.
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Yes.
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When word gets back to England that his river harbors
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the notorious pirate Blackbeard.
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And that the governor shares the pirate's booty.
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All I need is two sloops, governor. And you shall
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have them. And a reward.
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What reward?
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Bring me the head of Blackbeard and name your reward.
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Really? Really.
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Thank you, governor.
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Anna.
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Yes, Edward?
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I'm tired.
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You don't look well, Edward.
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I mean I'm tired of this life. Of piracy, of slaughter.
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Come to the bow of the ship. I want to
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show you something.
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Look there.
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And to see what?
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The land.
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What of it?
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The governor has promised me all the land from my
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vessel at anchor as center and ten miles in radius.
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Out from it in the form of a sickle. What
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do you think?
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Oh, you are tired, Edward. And somehow older. Yes, to me, older.
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And your beard.
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What of it?
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Gray.
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Where?
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Here and here and here.
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What?
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What?
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What?
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What was that? Whose rooms? Men of war!
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Stop it!
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Flying the royal flag coming this way!
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Watch out!
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Now, this is what happened.
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Maynard's two sloops closed on Blackbeard, one on each side
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of Teach's vessel, and the three ships were held together
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by grappling hooks. And it was a furious sight. There
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was not one man on either side who did not
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receive some mark, who did not add some of his
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blood to the slippery decks. Then Blackbeard was boarded amidst
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a hail of grape shot in which Blackbeard received three
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pellets in his leg. Maynard found the pirate leaning against
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the mainmast, shot him.
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Hey! Die, pirate!
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Not yet!
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I'll bet you and no quarter!
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And the men fell back to watch their captain's duel.
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It was a wonderful duel, and it lasted over an hour.
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And toward the end of it, Maynard du Blé, then
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advanced in corner de cisse, cart cisse. Teach parried, then
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performed a striking monnaie and lunged into the cart line.
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Lunged and slipped. Slipped, yet on his knees, parried Maynard once, twice,
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but the third time.
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And Teach was dead, and the duel was over. And
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so was the battle, for Blackbeard's men had no heart
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for it anymore. Lieutenant Maynard, having declared himself victor and
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new master of Blackbeard's boat, went below into the pirates' quarters.
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Hanna.
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Hanna. My darling.
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Get up, Hannah.
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Oh, bend your cheek to me.
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I don't want to.
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What?
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Come on deck, Hannah.
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For what reason?
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Wife of a pirate and his spur.
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For what reason do you want me on deck?
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To be hanged.
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Really?
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Upon my word.
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Oh.
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And this is what Lieutenant Maynard did to the Teach family.
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He wrecked it, he hanged Hannah Teach, and he cut
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off Edward Teach's head. The head he mounted on the
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prow of the ship and sailed it proudly into Roanoke Harbor,
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tacking beautifully in such a manner that the black beard
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of Edward Teach streamed gracefully on the soft evening wind.
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A gull soared down to have a look, but when
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it saw what it was, it screamed and flew away.
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Thank you.
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In just a moment, Thomas Highland will tell you about
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next week's crime classic. Blackbeard's Fourteenth Wife, tonight's crime classic,
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was adapted from the original court reports and newspaper accounts
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by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. The music was composed
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and conducted by Bernard Herman, and the program is produced
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and directed by Elliot Lewis. Thomas Highland is portrayed on
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radio by Lou Merrill. In tonight's story, William Conrad was
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heard as Teach, Betty Harford as Hannah, and Alistair Duncan
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as Maynard. Featured in the cast were Ben Wright, Joseph Kearns,
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Richard Peel, and Jack Crucian.
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Bob Lamont speaking.
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Here again is Thomas Highland.
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Next week, Camelot, England, in the year 600, and the
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troubles caused by Guinevere, who was married to Arthur and
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loved by Lancelot. My report to you will be on
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the triangle on the round table.
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Thank you. Good night.
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America's favorite teenage rage, Junior Miss, now brings us her
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haphazard adventures every Thursday evening on most of these same stations.
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That makes her a perfect listening companion to Millie Bronson,
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heroine of CBS Radio's wacky Thursday night series titled Meet Millie.
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In moving to Thursday evenings, Junior Miss also keeps company
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with Ray Milland of Meet Mr. McNuttley comedy fame. Tomorrow night,
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don't miss Milland with a teenage problem of his own
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in the shapely shape of a visiting niece and her
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strange young swain. Tomorrow night at the Star's Address.
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© BF-WATCH TV 2021 We leave crime classics and Blackbeard's
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14th wife while she was no good for him. The
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Caribbean setting fades into radio silence.
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Good evening.