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SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER 1.-Bllly Bones, an old sea
dog, much addicted to rum, lodges at Ad-
miral Benbow Inn.
CHAPTER IL-Stranger. called BLACK
Dog" meets Bones; an interview ends In
fight and disappearance Of stranger.
CHAPTER uI.-Blind beggar comes to
and leaves. "Ten o'clock" Bones
cries. "six hours Well do them yeti" at
which moment he Is struck dead by apo
CHAPTER Iv.-Near Bones body is
found a little round paper. blackened on
one side. on the other the words: You
bones sea chest. and an oilskin packet
Flight taken from inn.
CHAPTER V.-Blind man pew with
companions attack the inn. Chagrined al
not finding ''F'lint's fist" the scoundrels
scatter. Blind Pew Is run down ana killed
by a horse.
CHAPTER VI.-Young Hawkins takes
packet to DR.. Livesey. who with Squire
rrelawney opens 1t and finds minute d.
rec.ions for finding Of vast treasure.
CHAPTER VII.-Trelawney fits up ex-
pedition to seek treasure.
CHAPTER VIII.-Jim Hawkins meets
Black Dog at John Silvers Inn. Black Dog
runs away. and Silver avows ignorance OF
his identity.
CHAPTER IX-Ship's captain thinks
some things on board somewhat singular
and asks to have certain precautions
taken. among which are the storing OF
the powder and arms as,ern and giving
the cabin.
He was not only useless as an officer,
and bad influence amongst the men,
but it was plain that at this rnte he
must soon kill himself outright; SO
nobody was much surprised, nor very
sorry. when one dark night, with
head sea, he disappeared entirely and
was seen no more.
"Overboard!" said the captain. well,
gentlemen, that saves the trouble OF
putting him in irons"
But there we were, without q mate,
and it was necessary, of course, to ad-
vance one of the men. The boatswain,
Job Anderson, was the likeliest man
aboard, and, though he kept his old
title. he served in a way as mate. Mr..
Trelawney had followed the sea, and
his knowledge made him very useful,
for he often took watch himself in
easy weather. And the cockswain, Is
rael Hands. was a careful. willy. old. ex-
perienced seaman. who could be trusted
at pinch with almost anything.
He was great confidant of Long
John Silver, and so the mention of his
name leads me on to speak Of our ships
cook, Barbecue. as the men called him.
Aboard ship he carried his crutch by
n lanyard round his neck, to have both
hands as free as possible. 1t was some
thing to see him wedge the foot Of the
crutch against bulkhead. and propped
against it. yielding to every movement
of the ship. get on with his cooking like
some one safe ashore. Still more
strange was it TO see him in the heaviest
of weather cross the deck. He had a
line or two rigged up to help him across
the widest spaces-Long Johns ear
rings, they were called; and he would
hand himself from one place TO another,
now using the crutch, now trailing it
alongside by the lanyard. as quickly as
another man could walk. Yet some Of
the meh who had sailetfwith him before
expressed their pity 10 see him SO re-
duced.
Hes no common man, Barbecue"
said the cockswain to me. He had
good schooling in his young days, and
can speak like book when so minded: !:
and brave-lion's nothing alongside of
Long John. see him grappie four and
knock their heads together-him un-
armed"
All of the crew respected and even
oheyed him. He had a way Of talking
10 each and doing everybody some par
:icular service. To me he was un-
weariediy kind, and always glad to see
me in the galley, which he kept as clean
as new pin; the dishes hanging up
FURNISHED and his parrot in a cage in
the corner.
Come away, Hawkins he would
say; "come and have a yarn with John.
Nobody more welcome than yourself. my
son. Sit you down and hear the news.
Here's Cap'n Flint calls my parrot
Cap'n Flint, after the famous buc-
caneer-here's Cap'n Flint predicting
success to our wage. Wasn't you.
cap'n?"
And the parrot would say, with grea.
rapidity: pieces of eight! pieces of
eight! pieces of eight" till you won
dered that it was not out Of breath. or
s:,l John threw his handkerchief over
the cage.
"Now, that bird" he would say, SIS,
maybe. 200 years old, Hawkins
they live forever mostly; and if any
body's seen more wickedness. it must
be, the devil himself. She's sailed with
England-the great Capt. England.
the pirate. She's been at Madagascar.
and at Malabar and Surinam, and
Provi, 'ence, and Portobello. She was
at the I,Shing up Of the wrecked plate
ships. Its there she learned Pieces Of
eight and little wonder; 100000 of
'em. Hawkinst She was at the board
ing of the 'viceroy Of the Indies out
of Goa, she was; and to look at her
you would think she was babby. But
you smelled powder - didn't you,
cap'n?"
"Stand by to 60 about" the parrot
handsome craft, she Is.
the cook would say, and give her sugar
from his pocket, and then the oiru
would peck at the bars and swear
straight on, passing belief ior wicked.
ness. There" John would add, you
can't touch pitch and not be muckeo'
lad. Here's this poor old innocent
bird of mine swearing blue fire, and
none the wiser. you may lay to that.
She would swear the same, in manner
of speaking, before the chaplain" And
John would touch his forelock with q
solemn way he had, that made me think
he was the best Of men.
In the meantime, the squire and Capt
Smollett were still on pretty distant
terms with one another. The squire
made no bones about the matter; he
despised the captain. The captain. on
his part. never spoke but when he was
spoken to, and then sharp and short