Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson

a man may be cast into a gaol if he has but a kilt about his legs. One thing they couldnae kill. ...

day comes, David man, that I can find time and leisure for a bit of hunting, there grows not enough he ...

in his situation could come and go without arrest. “It’s easier than ye would think,” said Alan. “A bare ...

* Careful. And with this Alan fell into a muse, and for a long time sate very ...

CHAPTER XIII THE LOSS OF THE BRIG t was already late at night, and as dark as it ever would be at that ...

what better would ye have?” “Ay,” said Hoseason, “if it was the only one.” And sure enough, just as he ...

deck and wetted us like rain. The brightness of the night showed us these perils as clearly as by day, wh ...

of the wind, and the flying of the spray in the moonlight, and the sense of danger, I think my head must ...

the boat, I was too far off and too low down to see. While I was hailing the brig, I spied a tract of wat ...

I had no skill of swimming, Essen Water being small in our neighbourhood; but when I laid hold upon ...

But it was dry land; and when at last it grew so shallow that I could leave the yard and wade asho ...

CHAPTER XIV THE ISLET ith my stepping ashore I began the most unhappy part of my adventures. It was half-past ...

of Mull (which they call the Ross) is nothing but a jumble of granite rocks with heather in among. At fir ...

of the isle I found a great plenty of limpets, which at first I could scarcely strike from their ...

turned with loneliness; and think of the fireside and the company, till my heart burned. It was the same wi ...

This state of my affairs dashed me still further; and, indeed my plight on that third morning was truly ...

Well, all of a sudden, a coble with a brown sail and a pair of fishers aboard of it, came flying r ...

still cried and waved to them; and when they were quite gone, I thought my heart would have burst. ...

which the one had of a bright yellow and the other black. But now there was a third man along with them, wh ...

in great pain of my sore throat. I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I ...