Chapter 1
The Captain Takes Up Lodging at the Benbow
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1 The grey stone Admiral Benbow stands alone between the coast road and the cold sea
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2 A nut-brown seaman plods to the Admiral Benbow, his sea-chest behind him in a barrow
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3 On the Admiral Benbow's threshold, the captain stares down over gold on the doorstep
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4 Billy Bones stands on the cliff edge, sweeping the sea with a brass telescope
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5 The captain offers the boy a silver coin to watch for the seafaring man with one leg
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6 Jim Hawkins runs across a field as the one-legged monster of his dream leaps the hedge
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7 The landlord backs out of the parlour as the captain's fist pins the bill to the table
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8 The captain's sea-chest stands locked on the bare floorboards of the upstairs room
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9 Lit by the fire's coals, Billy Bones leans over the table and shouts at Doctor Livesey
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10 The drunken seaman springs up, knocking over his stool, and fumbles in his coat pocket
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11 The drunken captain springs up with an open knife; Doctor Livesey answers calmly
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12 Doctor Livesey, pipe held aside, steadily names the gallows over his shoulder
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