Treasure Island
- ISBN-10
- 1458944107
- ISBN-13
- 9781458944108
- Series
- Treasure Island
- Category
- Juvenile Fiction
- Pages
- 176
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-08
- Author
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Description
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Part II. THE SEA COOK CHAPTER VII. I GO TO BRISTOL IT was longer than the squire imagined ere we were ready for the sea, and none of our first plans not even Dr. Livesey's, of keeping me beside him could be carried out as we in- i506 tended. The doctor had to go to London for a physician to take charge of his practice; the squire was hard at work at Bristol; and I lived on at the Hall under the charge of old Redruth, the gamekeeper, almost a prisoner, but full of isio sea-dreams and the most charming anticipations of strange islands and adventures. I brooded by the hour together over the map, all the details of which I well remembered. Sitting by the fire in the housekeeper's room, I approached that island Ims in my fancy, from every possible direction; I explored every acre of its surface; I climbed a thousand times to that tall hill they call the Spyglass, and from the top enjoyed the most wonderful and changing prospects. Sometimes the i520 isle was thick with savages, with whom we fought; sometimes full of dangerous animals that hunted us; but in all my fancies nothingoccurred to me so strange and tragic as our actual adventures. So the weeks passed on, till one fine day there was came a letter addressed to Dr. Livesey, with this addition, "To be opened, in the case of his absence, by Tom Redruth, or young Hawkins." Obeying this order, we found, or rather I found for the gamekeeper was a poor hand at read- isso ing anything but print the following important news: " Old Anchor Inn, Bristol, March i, I. " Dear Livesey, As I do not know whether you are at the Hall or still in London, I send this in double to both places. i535 " The ship is bought and fitted. . She lies at anchor, ready for sea. You never imagined a sweeter schooner ...
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