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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1898 Original Publisher: Chatto and Windus Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Collections / General Literary Collections / Essays Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 'Jim, ' says he, 'I reckon we're fouled, you and me, and we 'll have to sign articles. I 'd have had you but for that there lurch; but I don't have no luck, not I; and I reckon I1l have to strike, which comes hard, you see, for a master mariner to a ship's younker like you, Jim.' I was drinking in his words and smiling away, as conceited as a cock upon a walk, when, all in a breath, back went his right hand over his shoulder. Something sung like an arrow through the air; I felt I a blow and then a sharp pang, and there I was pinned by the shoulder to the mast. In the horrid pain and surprise of the moment -- I scarce can say it was by my own volition, and I am sure it was without a conscious aim -- both my pistols went off, and both escaped' out of my hands. They did not fall alone; with a choked cry the cockswain loosed his grasp upon the shrouds, and plunged head first into the water From ' Treasure Island, ' by permission of Cassell and Co, Ltd, xv. The Master's Wanderings. We were nine days making our port, so light were the airs we had to sail on, so foul the ship's bottom ; but early on the tenth, before dawn, and in a light, lifting haze, we passed the head. A little after, the haze lifted, and fell again, showing us a cruiser very close. This was a sore blow, happening so near our refuge. There was a great debate of whether she had seen us, and if so whether it was likely they ha
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The Stevenson Reader; Selected Passages From the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson
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