. St. Nicholas [serial]. re doing a queer thing that sum-mer—writing a story, all of them together, infifteen-minute stints. The manuscript passedfrom one to another, and whenever it came to theboy, all the characters were whisked off to adesert island—a fact which they all teased himabout, especially Stevenson. Lloyd had a new box of water-color paints,and, boylike, he was always drawing and paint-ing. One day he haddone a shipwreckedboat and an island—just a made-up is-land of his own.Stevenson leanedover his shoulderand added the de-liciously romanticnames and thecrosses for buriedtreasure,
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. St. Nicholas [serial]. re doing a queer thing that sum-mer—writing a story, all of them together, infifteen-minute stints. The manuscript passedfrom one to another, and whenever it came to theboy, all the characters were whisked off to adesert island—a fact which they all teased himabout, especially Stevenson. Lloyd had a new box of water-color paints, and, boylike, he was always drawing and paint-ing. One day he haddone a shipwreckedboat and an island—just a made-up is-land of his own.Stevenson leanedover his shoulderand added the de-liciously romanticnames and thecrosses for buriedtreasure, tremen-dously to the boysdelight and to hisown. Then he saidenthusiastically, I 11 have to writea story all aboutit! Yes, somethingreally interesting, Lloyd Osbourne an-swered ; who itwas that buried thetreasure, and whythe little island wascalled Skeleton Island—not like your otherbooks. For it was rather a joke in the familythat the boy could nt read Stevensons essays.Oh, no, nothing so stupid or tiresome ! the. LONG JOHN SILVER KHXi HISPARROT, CAP-N FLINT. author agreed; but full of pirates, and buriedtreasure, and the things everybody likes. The very next day the first chapter of Treas-ure Island was read aloud to the family, and thisbecame the daily schedule: after lunch Stevensonread them the mornings chapter, his father mak-ing suggestions now and then, Lloyd listening, thrilled and excited—at times half afraid—as thewonderful reader conjured up all the charactersbefore him. But being a meek little boy oftwelve, he did nt venture suggestions, save toinsist that there should be no women in the book— a true boys book, he wanted it, with real pi-rates. And the story has really bloodthirsty, cut-throaty pirates, yet there is nt a swear word init—to please the boys mother, Stevenson used tosay, though he found it difficult. Bucaneerswithout oaths—bricks without straw. But I 11do it, he would chuckle. And he did ! Whatboy stops to think of the lack as he breat