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A character with this profession recounts spending long nights dreaming of cheese “toasted mostly.” A blind beggar named Pew who used to have this profession is run over by a carriage after being abandoned during a botched robbery. After being visited by a character with this profession known as “Black Dog,” a man with this profession has a stroke at the Admiral (10[1])Benbow inn. (10[1])People with this profession (10[1])use a page taken from a (10[1])Bible to depose their leaders (10[1])with a “black spot.” (10[5])Jim Hawkins accompanies a character with this profession on a hunt for Captain (-5[1])Flint’s gold. For 10 points, Robert Louis Stevenson (10[1])wrote about characters (-5[1])with (10[1])what profession in Treasure Island, such as Long John Silver? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: pirates [or privateers or buccaneers; prompt on sailors or equivalents; prompt on criminals or equivalents]
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