[00:00.31] Treasure Island.
[00:01.77] Chapter 1.
[00:03.24] The old sea dog.
[00:06.73] I remember him as if it were yesterday.
[00:11.81] A tall, nut brown man with broken nails and a white scar across one cheek.
[00:19.12] He wrapped on the door of the Admiral Benbow inn and called for a glass of rum.
[00:25.93] The inn belonged to my father, and I, Jim Hawkins, helped to serve in the parlor.
[00:36.59] This is a handy spot, said the stranger.
[00:41.32] Do you get many visitors?
[00:44.84] Not many, my father told him regretfully.
[00:49.39] Well then, he said, This is the place for me.
[00:55.46] I'm a plain man, rum, and bacon and eggs is all I want.
[01:01.60] And the cliffs here to watch out for ships.
[01:06.99] He told us to call him Captain and had his chest carried upstairs to his room.
[01:14.99] All day the captain would walk the cliffs, looking through his brass telescope.
[01:23.08] In the evenings, he'd sit in a corner by the fire and drink strong rum.
[01:29.94] Every day when he came back from his walk, he'd ask the same question.
[01:37.71] Have any seafaring men been by today?
[01:42.94] He promised me a silver four pence once a month, if I'd keep my eyes open for a seafaring man with one leg.
[01:56.84] The moment he appeared, I was to run and tell the captain.
[02:05.56] How that one-legged man haunted my dreams.
[02:12.71] On stormy nights, when the wind shook the house, he would chase me through my nightmares, leaping and running with terrible speed.
[02:28.44] The captain stayed on week after week, and then month after month.
[02:37.02] He never paid his bill, and my father was too scared of him to ask for the money.
[02:48.06] Everyone was afraid of the captain.
[02:53.90] In the evenings, when he drunk too much rum, he would sit and sing his wild old sea songs.
[03:05.24] 15 men on the dead man's chest, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
[03:11.80] Drink him the devil had gone for the rest.
[03:15.53] Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
[03:21.67] Everyone at the inn joined in the singing on the captain's orders.
[03:28.96] Sometimes he would tell stories of the sea, grim stories about hanging, and walking the plank, and terrible storms.
[03:41.25] No one was allowed to leave the inn until he drunk himself sleepy and rolled off to bed.
[03:52.21] Only one man ever spoke back to him, and that was Dr. Livesey.
[04:02.28] The doctor was in the parlor at the time, talking to old Taylor, the gardener.
[04:10.92] Suddenly, the captain banged on the table for silence.
[04:17.72] Everyone stopped talking at once, except for Dr. Livesey.
[04:26.61] Silence there between decks, growled the captain.
[04:34.48] Are you talking to me?
[04:37.51] replied the doctor coolly.
[04:42.84] If you go on drinking rum like that, the world will soon be rid of a dirty scoundrel.
[04:53.19] The captain instantly flew into a rage.
[04:59.27] He opened his sailors' knife and threatened to pin the doctor to the wall.
[05:09.73] The doctor didn't even turn round in his chair.
[05:17.91] If you don't put that knife away, I'll have you arrested, he said.
[05:25.36] I am a magistrate as well as a doctor, and I'll be keeping a close eye on a rogue like you.
[05:39.03] Soon after that, Dr. Livesey left.
[05:45.54] But the captain was quiet that evening, and for many evenings afterwards.