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1 So Jackson's Island was chosen.
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2 I bet there's been pirates on this island before, boys.
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3 It was broad daylight before he found himself fairly abreast the island bar.
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4 They always bury it under a ha'nted house or on an island, or under a dead tree that's got one limb sticking out.
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5 The other pirates were looking their last, too; and they all looked so long that they came near letting the current drift them out of the range of the island.
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6 It was but a small strain on his imagination to remove Jackson's Island beyond eye-shot of the village, and so he "looked his last" with a broken and satisfied heart.
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7 About two o'clock in the morning the raft grounded on the bar two hundred yards above the head of the island, and they waded back and forth until they had landed their freight.
The Adventures of Tom SawyerBy Mark Twain ContextHighlight In CHAPTER XIII
8 They discovered that the island was about three miles long and a quarter of a mile wide, and that the shore it lay closest to was only separated from it by a narrow channel hardly two hundred yards wide.
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9 It seemed glorious sport to be feasting in that wild, free way in the virgin forest of an unexplored and uninhabited island, far from the haunts of men, and they said they never would return to civilization.
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10 The storm culminated in one matchless effort that seemed likely to tear the island to pieces, burn it up, drown it to the treetops, blow it away, and deafen every creature in it, all at one and the same moment.
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11 Three miles below St. Petersburg, at a point where the Mississippi River was a trifle over a mile wide, there was a long, narrow, wooded island, with a shallow bar at the head of it, and this offered well as a rendezvous.
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