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TREASURE ISLAND - ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON KARTON...

To The Hesitating Purchaser: If sailor tales to sailor tunes  Storm and adventure  heat and
cold  If schooners  islands  and maroons and Buccaneers and buried Gold  and all the old
romance  retold exactly in the ancient way  can please  as me they pleased of old  the wiser
youngsters of today: So be it  and fall on! If not  if studious youth no longer crave  his
ancient appetites forgot  Kingston  or Ballantyne the brave  or Cooper of the wood and wave: So
be it  also! And may I and all my pirates share the grave where these and their creations lie !
Squire Trelawney  Dr. Livesey  and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down
the whole particulars about Treasure Island  from the beginning to the end  keeping nothing
back but the bearings of the island  and that only because there is still treasure not yet
lifted  I take up my pen in the year of grace 17   and go back to the time when my father kept
the Admiral Benbow inn  and the brown old seaman  with the sabre cut  first took up his lodging
under our roof. I remember him as if it were yesterday  as he came plodding to the inn door 
his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow  a tall  strong  heavy  nut-brown man  his
tarry pigtail falling over the shoulders of his soiled blue coat  his hands ragged and scarred
black  broken nails  and the sabre cut across one cheek  a dirty  livid white. I remember him
looking round the cove and whistling to himself as he did so  and then breaking out in that old
sea-song that he sang so often afterwards. [...] This wonderful historic book is a special
reprint of the original published in 1883.

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