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GOOD-BYE KIDNAPPED By Robert Louis Stevenson Illustrated by Louis Rhead BEING MEMOIRS OF THE ADVENTURES OF DAVID BALFOUR IN THE YEAR 1751 HOW HE WAS KIDNAPPED AND CAST AWAY; HIS SUFFERINGS…
I SET OFF UPON MY JOURNEY TO THE HOUSE OF SHAWS will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the last time…
I COME TO MY JOURNEY’S END n the forenoon of the second day, coming to the top of a hill, I saw all the country fall away before me down to the sea; and in the midst of this descent, on a long ridge…
I MAKE ACQUAINTANCE OF MY UNCLE resently there came a great rattling of chains and bolts, and the door was cautiously opened and shut to again behind me as soon as I had passed. “Go into the kitche…
I RUN A GREAT DANGER IN THE HOUSE OF SHAWS or a day that was begun so ill, the day passed fairly well. We had the porridge cold again at noon, and hot porridge at night; porridge and small beer was …
I GO TO THE QUEEN’S FERRY uch rain fell in the night; and the next morning there blew a bitter wintry wind out of the north-west, driving scattered clouds. For all that, and before the sun began to …
WHAT BEFELL AT THE QUEEN’S FERRY s soon as we came to the inn, Ransome led us up the stair to a small room, with a bed in it, and heated like an oven by a great fire of coal. At a table hard by the …
I GO TO SEA IN THE BRIG “COVENANT” OF DYSART came to myself in darkness, in great pain, bound hand and foot, and deafened by many unfamiliar noises. There sounded in my ears a roaring of water as of…
THE ROUND-HOUSE ne night, about eleven o’clock, a man of Mr. Riach’s watch (which was on deck) came below for his jacket; and instantly there began to go a whisper about the forecastle that “Shuan h…
THE MAN WITH THE BELT OF GOLD ore than a week went by, in which the ill-luck that had hitherto pursued the Covenant upon this voyage grew yet more strongly marked. Some days she made a little way; o…
