The life of Robert Louis Stevenson for boys and girls . le, all sorts of strange 99 ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON scenes began to take place upon it, and ashe gazed at his map Stevenson discoveredthe plot for the good story. It is horrid fun, he wrote, and beginsin the Admiral Benbow public house on theDevon coast; all about a map and a treasureand a mutiny, and a derelict ship . . anda doctor and a sea-cook with one leg withthe chorus yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum/... No women in the story, Lloyd orders. Parts of the coast at Monterey flashedback to his mind and helped him to picturethe scenery of hi
The life of Robert Louis Stevenson for boys and girls . le, all sorts of strange 99 ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON scenes began to take place upon it, and ashe gazed at his map Stevenson discoveredthe plot for the good story. It is horrid fun, he wrote, and beginsin the Admiral Benbow public house on theDevon coast; all about a map and a treasureand a mutiny, and a derelict ship . . anda doctor and a sea-cook with one leg withthe chorus yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum/... No women in the story, Lloyd orders. Parts of the coast at Monterey flashedback to his mind and helped him to picturethe scenery of his Treasure Island. Itwas just such a place as the Monterey sandhills the hero John Hawkins found himselfon leaving his mutinous shipmates. It wasjust such a thicket of live oak growing lowalong the sand like brambles, that he crawledand dodged when he heard the voices of thepirates near him and saw Long John Silverstrike down with his crutch one of his mateswho had refused to join in his plan formurder. As the story grew he read each new chapter 100. SCOTLAND AGAIN aloud to the family in the evening. He waswriting it for one boy, but found he hadmore in his audience. My father, he says,not only heard with delight the dailychapter, but set himself actively to collabo-rate. When the time came for Billy Boneschest to be ransacked, he must have passedthe better part of a day preparing on theback of a legal envelope an inventory of itscontents, which I exactly followed, and thename of Flints old ship, the Walrus, wasgiven at his particular request. When the map was redrawn for the bookit was embellished with blowing whales andsailing ships; and my father himself broughtinto service a knack he had of various writ-ing, and elaborately forged the signature ofCaptain Flint and the sailing directions ofBilly Bones. These daily readings were rare treats tothose at Skerryvore, for Stevenson was amost dramatic reader. When he came tostand in the place of Silver you could almosthave imagined
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