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Where's your main method?

Also, we have recommended that you not hard-code your file String as you are doing here:

  public void load(String pirateTxt) throws IOException {
    // below, you use hard-coded String "pirate.txt" instead of using pirateTxt parameter??
    Scanner infile = new Scanner(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream("pirate.txt")));

Why have you not fixed this yet?