Treasure Island

By Robert Louis Stevenson

QUOTATION: Pieces of eight! pieces of eight! pieces of eight!
ATTRIBUTION: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), Scottish novelist, essayist, poet. Long John Silver’s parrot, Cap’n Flint, in Treasure Island, pt 1, ch. 10 (1883).

QUOTATION: Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest—
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
Drink and the devil had done for the rest—
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
ATTRIBUTION: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), Scottish novelist, essayist, poet. the captain, in Treasure Island, pt. 1, ch. 1 (1883).