RS 235
THE PARSON'S MARJORY 244
DEATH 256

THE TREASURE OF FRANCHARD

CHAPTER

I. BY THE DYING MOUNTEBANK 267
II. MORNING TALK 271
III. THE ADOPTION 278
IV. THE EDUCATION OF A PHILOSOPHER 286
V. TREASURE TROVE 296
VI. A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION, IN TWO PARTS 309
VII. THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF DESPREZ 320
VIII. THE WAGES OF PHILOSOPHY 329

TREASURE ISLAND

TO

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 HOURS
AND WITH THE KINDEST WISHES, DEDICATED
BY HIS AFFECTIONATE FRIEND

THE AUTHOR

_TO THE HESITATING PURCHASER_

_If sailor tales to sailor tunes,
Storm and adventure, heat and cold,
If schooners, islands, and maroons
And Buccaneers and buried Gold,
And all the old romance, retold
Exactly in the ancient way,
Can please, as me they pleased of old,
The wiser youngsters of to-day:_

_--So be it, and fall on! If not,
If studious youth no longer crave,
His ancient appetites forgot,
Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave,
Or Cooper of the wood and wave:
So be it, also! And may I
And all my pirates share the grave
Where these and their creations lie!_

PART I

THE OLD BUCCANEER

TREASURE ISLAND

CHAPTER I

THE OLD SEA-DOG AT THE "ADMIRAL BENBOW"

Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen, having
asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from
the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of 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 Benbow" inn, and the brown