: Rewrite Ben Gunn's dialogue in modern standard English. 'I were in Flint's ship when he buried the treasure; he and six strong seamen. They was ashore nigh on a week. Well, I was in another ship three years back, and we sighted this island. 'Boys,' said I, 'here's Flint's treasure; let's land and find it." Twelve days they looked for it, and every day they had the worse word for me, until one fine morning all hands went aboard.'​