Name: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson - Chapter 01 - The Old Sea-Dog At The Admiral Benbow
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To S. Lloyd Osbourne, an American gentleman

in accordance with whose classic taste the

following narrative has been designed, it

is now, in return for numerous delightful

dedicated by his affectionate friend, the

SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest

of these gentlemen having asked me to write

down the whole particulars about Treasure

the island, and that only because there is

still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my

pen in the year of grace 17__ and go back

to the time when my father kept the Admiral

I remember him as if it were yesterday, as

he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-

shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands

nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek,

I remember him looking round the cover and

whistling to himself as he did so, and then

breaking out in that old sea-song that he

seemed to have been tuned and broken at the

stick like a handspike that he carried, and

when my father appeared, called roughly for

This, when it was brought to him, he drank

"This is a handy cove," says he at length;

My father told him no, very little company,

"Well, then," said he, "this is the berth

Here you, matey," he cried to the man who

"I'm a plain man; rum and bacon and eggs is

what I want, and that head up there for to

threw down three or four gold pieces on the

"You can tell me when I've worked through

appearance of a man who sailed before the

coast, and hearing ours well spoken of, I

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Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson - Chapter 01 - The Old Sea-Dog At The Admiral Benbow

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