Just then there came the wheezy sound of an accordion. It was an odd little tune that, had he been alive exactly one hundred and fifty years later, the scarf-wearing pirate would have recognized as the first few bars from ‘Theme to Murder, She Wrote’.

Gideon Defoe
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The scarf-wearing pirate in the story is a character that is described with an odd, wheezy sound of an accordion. This is what happens when you try to think too far back in time. The character would not have recognized the song because it was not written until the 1980s. The story itself was written in 1868 and published in 1871. The idea of an accordion-wearing pirate is a way for the author to add humor to the story.

Source: The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists

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