IT was not very long after this that there occurred the first of the mysterious events that rid us at last of the captain, though not, as you will see...
ABOUT noon I stopped at the captain's door with some cooling drinks and medicines. He was lying very much as we had left him, only a little higher...
I LOST no time, of course, in telling my mother all that I knew, and perhaps should have told her long before, and we saw ourselves at once in a diffi...
My curiosity, in a sense, was stronger than my fear; for I could not remain where I was, but crept back to the bank again, whence, sheltering my head ...
WE rode hard all the way, till we drew up before Dr Livesey's door. The house was all dark to the front. Mr Dance told me to jump down and knock, ...
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...
WHEN I had done breakfasting the squire gave me a note addressed to John Silver, at the sign of the `Spy-glass,' and told me I should easily find ...
THE Hispaniola lay some way out, and we went under the figureheads and round the sterns of many other ships, and their cables sometimes grated underne...
ALL that night we were in a great bustle getting things stowed in their place, and boatfuls of the squire's friends, Mr Blandly and the like, comi...
`NO, not I,' said Silver. `Flint was cap'n; I was quartermaster, along of my timber leg. The same broadside I lost my leg, old Pew lost his de...