Treasure Island

TREASURE ISLANDThe squire, at this,would turn away and march up anddown the deck, chin in air."A trifle more of that man," he would say,"and I shallexplode."We had some heavy weather, which only proved thequalities of the Hispaniola. Every man on board seemedwell content, and they must have been hard to please if theyhad been otherwise; for it is mybelief there was never ato sea. Doubleship's company so spoiled since Noah putgrog was going on the least excuse; there was duff on odddays, as, for instance, if the squire heard it was any man'sbirthday; and always a barrel of apples standing broachedinthe waist, for any one to help himself that had a fancy."Never knew good come of it yet," the captain said toDr. Livesey. "Spoil foc's'le hands, make devils. That'smy belief."But good did come of the apple barrel, as you shall hear;for if it had not been for that, we should have had no noteof warning, and might all have perished bythe hand oftreachery.This was how it came about.We had run up the trades to get the wind of the islandwe were after - - 1 am not allowed to be more plain andnow we were running down for it with a bright look-out dayand night.It was about the last day of our outward voyage,by the largest computation; some time that night, or, atlatest, before noon of the morrow, we should sight the TreasureIsland. We were headingS. S. W., and had a steadybreeze abeam and a quietsea. The Hispaniola rolled[78]