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Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Here are chapters 4, 5, and 6 of Treasure Island. The old sea dog, Billy Bones, died of shock, surprise, and an excess of rum in the Admiral Benbow Inn. He left a debt behind that Jim Hawkins and his mother could certainly use. He also left behind a lot of enemies. When no one will help protect Jim and his mother as they look through Billy Bones’s sea chest, they decide to do it by themselves and take only what is due to them for the months and months of past room and board they are owed. Because the money is all jumbled together in a variety of currencies, and Jim’s mother is too honest to take more than what is due to them, they have a hard time figuring it all out. As they are contemplating what to do, they hear the ominous tap-tap-tapping of the horrible old blind man coming back to the inn! Jim stuffs an old oilskin covered bundle into his coat and tells his mother that that will have to suffice to cover the rest of the balance they are owed. Then they flee the inn, leaving the rest of the money behind. When the ruffians come to harass old Billy Bones, they find he is dead, and they cause a huge ruckus. Will Jim and his mother find their way to safety? And what is in the bundle Jim is carrying?

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