Treasure Island by Robert Stevenson

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Chapter 3: The Sailor with One Leg

The next day Mr.Trelawney left for Bristol.

“I stayed at home and waited.

At last, weeks later, Dr Livesey got a letter from Bristol.

Dear Livesey, the ship is ready. Its name is Hispaniola.

I found a good man to be our cook on the ship.

He's an old sailor and he has an inn here in Bristol.

He is going to help me find sailors for our ship.

He knows a lot of men here.

His name is Long John Silver.

He has only one leg.

Please send Jim Hawkins to Bristol tomorrow.

Trelawney.”

I was very excited.

The next morning I said goodbye to my mother and started for Bristol.

Mr. Trelawney met met here.

'When do we sail?' I asked him.

'Sail?' he said. 'We sail tomorrow!'

I had something to eat, then Mr. Trelawney gave me a letter for Long John Silver at the Spy Glass Inn.

There were a lot of sailors in the Spy Glass Inn.

I looked round and saw a tall strong man with one leg.

'He's Long John Silver,' I thought.

'Mr. Silver, sir?'I asked.

'Yes, that's my name. And who are you?'

I gave him the letter and he took my hand.

Suddenly, one of the other men in the inn jumped up and ran to the door.

I knew him.

It was Black Dog!

'Stop him!' I said. 'Stop him! It's Black Dog!'

'Harry,' said Silver, 'run and catch that man.'

A man got up and ran after Black Dog.

Long John Silver turned to me.

"Who was that man?'he asked. 'Black what?'

'Dog, sir,' I said.'He's a pirate.'

'A pirate!' said Silver. 'Ben, run and help Harry. You can catch him!'

But Ben and Harry came back without Black Dog.

'We lost him,' they said.

'Well, what is Mr.Trelawney going to think?' said Silver. 'You know, Jim, we did try to catch him. And nobody in the inn knew that he was the pirate Black Dog. Now, Jim,come with me. We're going to see Mr. Trelawney.'

Long John Silver walked with me to meet Mr. Trelawney and Dr Livesey.

He told them about Black Dog.

Mr. Trelawney listened carefully, and then said, 'Well, we can't do anything about Black Dog now.John, tell all the men to come to the ship this afternoon.'

The doctor turned tome. 'Come and see the ship, Jim,' he said. And meet our captain, Captain Smollett.'

So we went to the Hispaniola.

'Well, Captain Smollett,' said Mr. Trelawney, 'I hope everything is ready.'

'Well, sir,' said the captain, 'it is, but l'm not happy about it. I don't like the sailors.'

'Oh?' said Mr.Trelawney. He was very angry with the captain.

But Dr Livesey said,'Tell me, Captain Smollett. Why are you unhappy?

'Well,' said the captain, I don't know where we are going. But all the sailors say we are going to look for treasure. I don't like it. I don't know these men.'

'Well, what do you want?' asked the doctor.

'We must have all the guns in our rooms, sir. And Mr. Trelawney's men must sleep near us, not with the other sailors.'

'And?' said Mr. Trelawney.

'You have a map. Thesailors know about it. Nobody must see that map.'

'Right, sir,' said Mr.Trelawney. 'We can do that. But I think they're very good men.'

'Trelawney,' said the doctor later, 'you have two good men, Captain Smollett and Long John Silver.'

'I don't know about the captain,' said Mr. Trelawney angrily.

Then Captain Smollett found me. 'And you, boy, go and help the cook!'

We worked all night and in the morning, the ship left Bristol.

The Hispaniola was a good ship and we had good weather.

The sailors all liked Long John Silver.

'In the old days,before he lost his leg, he was a good fighter,' some of them said.' He was always very good to me. '