wrong additions, and these words appended, "Bones, his pile."

"I can't make head or tail of this," said Dr. Livesey.

"The thing is as clear as noonday," cried the squire. 5"This is the black-hearted hound's account book. These crosses stand for the names of ships or towns that they sank or plundered. The sums are the scoundrel's share, and where he feared an ambiguity, you see, he added something clearer. 'Offe Caraccas,' now; you see, here was some un10 happy vessel boarded off that coast. God help the poor souls that manned her -coral long ago."

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"Right!" said the doctor. "See what it is to be a traveler. Right! and the amounts increase, you see, as he rose in rank."

There was little else in the volume but a few bearings of places noted in the blank leaves toward the end, and a table for reducing French, English, and Spanish money to a common value.

"Thrifty man!" cried the doctor. "He wasn't the one 20 to be cheated."

"And now," said the squire, "for the other."

The paper had been sealed in several places with a thimble by way of seal; the very thimble, perhaps, that I had found in the captain's pocket. The doctor opened the seals with 25 great care, and there fell out the map of an island, with lati

tude and longitude, soundings, names of hills, and bays and inlets, and every particular that would be needed to bring a ship to a safe anchorage upon its shores. It was about nine miles long and five across, shaped, you might say, like

a fat dragon standing up, and had two fine land-locked harbors, and a hill in the center, marked "The Spyglass.' There were several additions of a later date; but, above all, three crosses of red ink - two on the north part of the island, one in the southwest, and beside this last, in the same red 5 ink, and in a small, neat hand, very different from the captain's tottery characters, these words, "Bulk of treasure

here."

Over on the back the same hand had written this further information:

"Tall tree, Spyglass shoulder, bearing point to the N. of N.N.E.

"Skeleton Island E.S.E. and by E.

"Ten feet.

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"The bar silver is in the north cache; you can find it by 15 the trend of the east hummock, ten fathoms south of the black crag with the face on it.

"The arms are easy found, in the sand hill, N. point of north inlet cape, bearing E. and a quarter N.

"J. F." 20 That was all; but brief as it was, and, to me, incomprehensible, it filled the squire and Dr. Livesey with delight. "Livesey," said the squire, "you will give up this wretched practice at once. To-morrow I start for Bristol. In three 'weeks' time-three weeks! - two weeks - ten days —— 25 we'll have the best ship, sir, and the choicest crew in England. Hawkins shall come as cabin boy. You'll make a famous cabin boy, Hawkins. You, Livesey, are ship's doctor; I am admiral. We'll take Redruth, Joyce, and

Hunter. We'll have favorable winds, a quick passage, and not the least difficulty in finding the spot, and money to eat to roll in to play ducks and drakes with ever after." "Trelawney," said the doctor, "I'll go with you; and, I'll 5 go bail for it, so will Jim, and be a credit to the undertaking. There's only one man I'm afraid of." "And who's that?" cried the squire. sir!"

"Name the dog,

"You," replied the doctor; "for you cannot hold your 10 tongue. We are not the only men who know of this paper. These fellows who attacked the inn to-night bold, desperate blades, for sure and the rest who stayed aboard that lugger, and more, I dare say, not far off, are, one and all, through thick and thin, bound that they'll get that money. 15 We must none of us go alone till we get to sea. Jim and I

shall stick together in the meanwhile; you'll take Joyce and Hunter when you ride to Bristol, and, from first to last, not one of us must breathe a word of what we've found."

"Livesey," returned the squire, "you are always in the 20 right of it. I'll be as silent as the grave."

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: Treasure Island.

HELPS TO STUDY

1. Who was Jim Hawkins? 2. Describe Squire Trelawney. 3. What was the story that Mr. Dance told? 4. How long ago was it that men wore powdered wigs? 5. Why did not Dr. Livesey open the packet at once? 6. Blackbeard was Captain Teach, a famous pirate who wore a huge beard. He was an Englishman born in Bristol. 7. Find Bristol, Trinidad, and Port of Spain on your map. doctor ask Jim's permission before opening the packet?

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they find in the packet? 10. What was in the book? the crosses and figures in the book explained? by whom? 12. Where is Caracas? 13. Explain Dr. Livesey's phrase "coral long ago." 14. What was in the paper? 15. Describe the map. 16. Explain "tottery characters." 17. How do the squire and the doctor feel about the map? 18. How does the squire show his impatience? 19. How do you play "ducks and drakes" with money? 20. What caution does the doctor give the squire? 21. What opinion have you formed of

their two characters?

The voyage in search of the treasure did not prove as simple as the squire imagined. You will find the story full of most exciting adventures in which Jim Hawkins plays a fine part. For a portrait and some account of the life of Robert Louis Stevenson, see the FOURTH READER.

For Study with the Glossary: poll, buccaneer, clew, condescending, prodigiously, cache, hummock, incomprehensible, appended, blades.

Review Questions. Read over the plan of analysis suggested for a short story on page 51. This selection from Treasure Island is not a complete story but it is one completed incident of a long story. Can you give it a special title? Who are the persons of the incident? What happens? Where does it take place?

What other prose narratives have you read in this book? What narrative poems? What deeds of bravery and daring have been presented. Relate some deed of individual courage in the Great War that would make a good subject for a poem.

IN MRS. JARLEY'S CARAVAN

The Old Curiosity Shop is a novel by Charles Dickens that tells of little Nell, who lived alone with her old grandfather in the queer curiosity shop. Through his mania for gambling he loses his property and is forced to give up the shop. Broken in spirit and childish in mind, he flees from the city with his little grand-daughter and wanders about the countryside. They are pursued by enemies who hope to gain money. through the possession of the child; but for a time they find refuge among various odd travelers along the country roads. They fall in with the proprietors of a Punch and Judy show, visit a country fair, and are then given a ride in a caravan by a large fat lady who has been attracted by the beauty of the child and the helplessness of the old man.

When they had travelled slowly forward for some short distance, Nell ventured to steal a look round the caravan and observe it more closely. One half of it that moiety in which the comfortable proprietress was then seated 5 was carpeted, and so partitioned off at the further end as to accommodate a sleeping-place, constructed after the fashion of a berth on board ship, which was shaded, like the little windows, with fair white curtains, and looked comfortable enough, though by what kind of gymnastic exercise 10 the lady of the caravan ever contrived to get into it, was an unfathomable mystery. The other half served for a kitchen, and was fitted up with a stove whose small chimney passed through the roof. It held also a closet or larder, several chests, a great pitcher of water, and a few cooking-utensils 15 and articles of crockery. These latter necessaries hung