Long John Silver

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Story of King Arthur, in Twelve Tales · Treasure Island (version 3, dramatic reading)-Robert Louis Stevenson · 9 Aug 2026 podcast

Captain, said the squire, the house is quite invisible from the ship.

It must be the flag there, Amya.

Would it not be wiser to take it in?

Strike my colours cried the captain.

No, sir, not I

And as soon as he had said the words, I think we all agreed with him, for it was not only a piece of stout, seemingly good feeling, it was good policy besides, and showed our enemies that we despised their cannonade.

All through the evening they kept thundering away.

Ball after ball flew over or fell short or kicked up the sand in the enclosure, but they had to fire so high that the shot fell dead and buried itself in the soft sand.

We had no ricochet to fear, and though one popped in through the roof of the log house and out again through the floor, we soon got used to that sort of horse play, and minded it no more than cricket.

There is one good thing about all this, observed the captain.

The wood in front of us is likely clear.

Volunteers to go and bring in pork.

Gray and Hunter were the first to come forward.

Well armed, they stole out of the stockade, but it proved a useless mission.

The mutineers were bolder than we fancied, or they put more trust in Israel's gunnery, for four or five of them were busy carrying off our stores and waiting out with them to one of the gigs that lay close by, pulling an oar or so to hold her steady against the current.

Silver was in the stern sheets in command, and every man of them was now provided with a musket from some secret magazine of their own.

The captain sat down to his log, and here is the beginning of the entry.

Alexander Smollett, Master of

James Hawkins, cabin boy.

And at the same time I was wondering over poor Jim Hawkins' fate.

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