title: Treasure Island
author: Robert Louis Stevenson
description: Stevenson was born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson at 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh, Scotland, on 13 November 1850, to Thomas Stevenson (1818-1887), a leading lighthouse engineer, and his wife Margaret, born Margaret Isabella Balfour (1829-1897). Lighthouse design was the family profession: Thomas's own father was the famous Robert Stevenson, and his maternal grandfather, Thomas Smith, and brothers Alan and David were also among those in the business.
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  # Fables
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Robert Louis Stevenson
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### I. - THE PERSONS OF THE TALE.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  AFTER the 32nd chapter of TREASURE ISLAND, two of the puppets
  
  
  strolled out to have a pipe before business should begin again, and
  
  
  met in an open place not far from the story.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  "Good-morning, Cap'n," said the first, with a man-o'-war salute,
  
  
  and a beaming countenance.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  "Ah, Silver!" grunted the other. "You're in a bad way, Silver."
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  "Now, Cap'n Smollett," remonstrated Silver, "dooty is dooty, as I
  
  
  knows, and none better; but we're off dooty now; and I can't see no
  
  
  call to keep up the morality business."
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  "You're a damned rogue, my man," said the Captain.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  "Come, come, Cap'n, be just," returned the other. "There's no call
  
  
  to be angry with me in earnest. I'm on'y a chara'ter in a sea
  
  
  story. I don't really exist."
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  "Well, I don't really exis