Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest — / Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
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Before seeing it I had always thought that the eternal chant of the old pirate at the "Admiral Benbow," in Treasure Island: "Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest, Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!" referred literally to a seaman's chest, though reflection might have shown that one chest would afford rather scanty seating-ground for fifteen men.
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