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Action Off Ocracoke Revenge That tickled tin drunken vanity of Jackson, and he readily fell .. . . _ v in with my plaits and agreed. Being (Continued from Page Ten) Blackboard, if even for a day, was a known to himself, he held his tongue, distinction he could not forego. I, Jonathan Banks, a citizen of Maynard approached, Jack prestige and substance, owner of ships, gon gtood at the rail and acted the andl plantations, and who has forth- of Blackbeard . Anne Bonney nghtly conducted himsplf in his com- tood beside him> armed and alert> Tn ® mal dealings with circumspect and read y f or action if Jackson sud mtegnty, am really he, Edwarf denly sobered an<J threatened our Teach, ignomimously called Black- plan I( the real Blackbeard, but un beard, the bloody pirate. recognizable to my drunken crew, I was not killed by Lieutenant May- stood also armed and watchful, close nard in the action off Ocracoke. It by . was poor, drink-besot, half-crazed o ur plan was as easy and simple in Jackson who was run through by May- itg execution as it was in its nard and had his head st-ck to the tion After the firet and only masthead—he, who so much resembled broadside fired by th e Revenge, and Blackbeard, unwittingly became the wben tbe confusion and noise had author of my. fantastic masquerade. reacbed jt s peak, Anne Bonney and It came about in this wise: un noticed by anyone, quietly made When Ben Wiggs, deep in his cups our way to the stern and dropped in the tavern on Ocracoke, made the overside into the water. Swimming as remark that Maynard did not know noiselessly as possible, and partly Blackbeard and would not recognize concealed by the gathering smoke of him from Jackson, the idea was bom, tbe g Un fire, we made our way to the full-blown, in my brain. It was fan-1 f aro ff beach, gleaming in the distance, tastic, incredible ( and a little mad, I g w j m presented to insurmountable dif but I believed I could outwit Maynard; fi cu ity. if I dared carry it through o nce aghore; asgiste d by friendly I dragged the drunken Jackson from coastal natives> we made OU r way the Tavern and rowed him back to the sWy and g radually to Edenton. Revenge. Placing him, still uncon- rp bere j made known my identity to scious, in my cabin, I changed clothes (he Governor> whoi though reluctantly, with Jackson. Then, with the help of a to £urther my p i an a nd aid Anne Bonney, who naturally was to share this adventure with me, I shaved * «, y off my beard and trimmed down my With the sponsorship of the Gov hair. The face that looked back at «™r, I was slowly insinuated into me from the broken mirror was he llf e and '" <> f . ~ . town on the Albemarle bound. l definitely not the visageof Black- ed Anne and T were married( beard. Instantly I had become some- J » in the one else, and m that moment I deeded * community. The one on a name for rov new personality. ~ I would call myself Jonathan Banks, great tradegy our otherwise un after a shipmate who was killed years ago in the Caribbean. Then Anne Bonney and I made our E/UEHUKKSBUMBmBs plans. We served more rum to the crew so they would be roaring drunk | wgmimmm* the next day, and unabue to detect any change in Blackbeard. We knew BBBJpi from past experiences that Jackson TAMhA^^^J would be blear-eyed and nervous, with mmgt iHI IKHA ' j a monstrous hangover. He would have | iyuaHteaf - just enough wit to fall in with any a °; n l-rA*9' plan suggested to him. ■ TAMPAX !So the next morning when Jackson had sobered enough to understand what was said to him, I, Blackbeard, broached to Jackson my plan. 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C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14,11950 troubled live* was the death of our only son who died, ironically enough, in a shipwreck off Ocracoke Inlet. (Now I am alone in the world. Anne, my wife, lies buried in a little country churchyard, not far from Bathtown. God rest her soul. Soon I will go to join her. It gr<S%a colder and colder in the room, and my emaciated hand that onde so hardily wielded a cutlass can scarcely hold my pen. These legs that so firmly strode the quarterdeck are 1 becoming numb. The candle gutters in the draughty air, as though it too may soon flicker its last and go out. I must hurry before the light is no ’ more and the room is left to me— I and the mystery of the darkness that I is crowfling into my brain. * I, Edward Teach, better known as ‘ Blackbeard, and who later called him * self Jonathan Banks, in this year 1765, * now write my final word and bring [ this diary to a close. 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SHERIFF OF CHOWAN COUNTY 5 miles north of Sans Souci, 5.6 miles; from end of pavement 0.1 mile north east of Trap toward (Harrellsville to Bertie-Hertford County line, 3.2. By the end of 1950 the Commission estimates that from 45 to 60 per cent of the 12,000-mile bond issue programi will be finished. Unless war condi- 1 tions intervene, the remainder of the' your family are looking for . . . including fleet, powerful Valve-in-Head engine performance. And it brings you these things at lowest cost! Come in—see and drive it—today! paving and stabilization program ■ should be completed within the next » two years. As of November 1, the Highway Commission had ppent $57,998,374 of ; the $200,000,000 bond issue fund. An 1 1 additional $64,000,000 is either allo 'cated to specific road projects or will ■ be allocated shortly. f^CHEVROLE^ PAGE NINE
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