The Black Spot

From Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Blind Pew delivers the pirate summons to Billy Bones, introducing one of literature's most enduring pirate motifs.
Chapter 3

'Tip me the black spot' — Bones receives the death warrant from blind Pew and dies of apoplexy, prompting Jim to flee with the map.

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Chapter 29

Silver receives a black spot from his own crew, demonstrating his cunning as he flips the mutiny back on the mutineers.

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