Show ow CONDENSED CLASSICS ROBINSON CRUSOE 0 by br S lit IV am u sat a con daniel defoe wat was born in london about 1660 after r a life of 1 v varied a ried and brilliant activity he died a homeless fugitive in R rope 1 1 fin a k leers e r 0 alley 0 pe bt moor 0 0 r fields on april 26 ills father a butcher educated parilea dan tl for the tit dis V birling ministry but the boys boy s unremitting 1 I en energy agy led him to tn be a led baler a political intriguer and an vt I 1 n d e to fix triable t J journalist ourn alist lie he rose to great intimacy with kinor nr william III HT and abruptly fell pallon and prison for ills his too ton per ct t s iture if the nay with jay ri ni etc from newgate e he lou launched n clied nil nali remarkable fellow a journal writ 1 I Jil by himself ire he ad v t d in ill income tax and higher duration for ire HP wrote distinct t and book bonks but his master emst imst r e crusce was not pit pub ili 1 until 1719 when the author was anili ly GO bearg ears I 1 old this rills tile tie first ret reat engllish novel noel has baa in some som re spi ai pet ails never neer hem been kurpa ed its im adint popularity incited incite 1 defoe to w i r alti it I 1 a i seq eq el and nian ciany thrilling tales af f Pira and adventurers adventurer of courte brint and an 1 adventuresses adventures ses sen ili ids ald vivid story of the plague appeared three arfin after rr binson crusol defoi defoe wis w is perhaps the greatest li liar r hit ever if llord V rd r d yet tot it we go fro dp depp into his rich and strangely rely mixed nature I 1 v corre come u upon af on stubborn foundations of on hather whatever ha teer the ultimate judgment lu of hn his honesty robinson rusoe lives immortally Imm to attest his in invention V father d tile me for the conly MY baw la but I 1 would be satisfied on with going to sea and eang one day ala fit at hull find one of my m oina dilons about to RO go hy by sea to lonion I 1 on in ills fathers ship nothing would me hut but I 1 must go with him this din september satin ber 8 1631 aind I 1 being then ili HUon years of ripe the rin ship was no sonner hooner out of port inn iian the lie wind and begin begian to blow and the ax i if to rise in the most frightful rann man wr 11 r bilth made me most terribly terrible sick a 1 hody oila ond and frightened in mind in my ii agony I 1 vowed towed that if god would spare roe me through this one voyage I 1 i mild ill 1 KI go immediately I 1 set foot on of nad directly lionie home to my mi good par nt find be ever sifter guided in my m induct by b their nolte but not next ly day the be wind wn was ablit eil ind the idi calener and the sun gun went ent lown ln to it a perfectly fine evening all and then hen to that flint haq ns kidded added a hol bowl of nud mado in by a shipmate I 1 forgot rn in v c 0 lution to in return home after the boyage w uta such has been rny my itin hohlt flit tl D i my great inis binl fortune till nil lily lift life 0 o elsw lit in tho the hour of peril the to I 1 cit on ins alrh have oe brought re ine to peril find n I 1 when vien the danger Is to ro forg t till nil vows and phinie i 1 it nillon I 1 along llong g once more on my in hedle firpi nir pi varl ll rIous 0 u were my rn sifter hit first voyage trad and ns ng to guinea in africa I 1 was ns cp capt ird fly 1 a turkish i rover hiir and sold into leivery ani ll ivery n from hanve aner after lerlla I 1 escaped to in tho the f set pt masolf up for fir it supid planter ind biml was as enloid en loit it fin ani I 1 hor orent offit when I 1 fil fall ell victim to tom teni n 11 tion bella vilree in the bra find some nt rs there knowing knol nc tant I 1 lind with alth the sane cn of africa they mo me into a n 0 voy o ice to thap parts with the intent io to itemize pure siti simp vo 1 labor ibor for our plantation only evil ell dois ever come of ell oun qI our hip wa w i wr ruled akol on nn ila unknown igind oft off to the north mst onit of eiith america ml of nil all the hips ahins coil rosinam lally I 1 alone hy h the alegs ln n of if oil its n allowed to escape through the hi high surf to tile the shore all I 1 poso sstA tit lit thi the time was a knife 11 ripe pite and a little dibacco toliu rin lit in a hox ho walking talking aloni the shore whon ahen I 1 had recovered ro erpf sufficiently in hi so ho to walk I 1 dowid fresh water vater a grent lov joy ilni brunk ari find put a lettle tobacco adlist the duneer in my in I 1 took up tip iny loding aff in a tree and nn 1 did there lepp to my mi great refreshment out ite light next ill the ani clear and the son sen tilt but what mt prenod pl enod gnp ap most wili mip tl P illif of tit tin ahli leilh jig as tile tide el e bed 1 c lin lily 0 si o doar to to tile shore that I 1 found foun 1 no trouble lp in swim slin man out to it no n livina thin ihan it ii ing atilt two to ant ants were arc left ifft on th but there ang it str store of otles HIPS and such nich I 1 tool took n rift ter for the th nIp of tri fi i cortinz tap tajo n to nn fin inlet lit in tit alie I mil annil I 1 where na fresh water and it lit flat MOE place for my mv on flit night of thi th iny my in work voik of being done I 1 lay dinv down in mr m fear of will bonit tut but nio na 0 of thankfulness in the knowledge that I 1 ens prepared for fir some tint time to corno con the barrenness of this 1 annil there were pre fault roes on tit alio iut 1 nt it hut ninn dai beriro heri o r them i then were arc nisi pont gont running but 1 ut wit limit the blind ammunition I 1 had at front from the fie ship of what ant mill moro cri I 1 li T nent ll 11 0 rk I 1 so S I 1 lind to 1 lie 1 1 nr 1 r k tul ful for the good providence which held the arhip to the shore until I 1 hid had taken 0 off if all that was of we use to me there was much to be done dome if I 1 were to secure my existence on this strange island the needful things I 1 did as best I 1 could in turn but not always with good fortune attending my efforts in my tint of barley and corn seed the half of bf all my precious stock was wasted by reason of being planted inthe very wrong time I 1 spent weary months in making earth ware pots for holding fresh water and forty two days it took me to hew bew my first long plank from a tree trunk I 1 strove tor for weeks to fashion a stone mortar molar to stamp grain in only to come at last to a block of hollowed out wood five months I 1 labored list in felling a great cedar tree hewing and shaping it to the hull of a splendid boat with which I 1 was to e escape cape from the Is island lanti only to bp be forced to abandon it for want t of a means whereby thereby to launch lr it into the sen sea however homeer every ery failure taught me Bom something ethIng I 1 hill not known before for the element there were trent grent winds and ruins rains find and earthquakes but I 1 became heinnie used in time to all things I 1 planted and harvest ted pl my crops of barley imrie find corn I 1 pluyd my wild gropes grapes find anil tried dried them into nourishing raisins I 1 r used and killed anti smoked and stilt vil my mv tarns tame bonts gouts being thus thua for of good not so badly served and sn through ill the twelve years dur trig ing blikh I 1 siw saw no sign of bilman on tile flip island other than m my own until tint flint event fill lily ibn on which I 1 enot with ill flit print of it i annn naked n aked foot f ot oil nil till tiie sand sun 1 I 1 mn w I 1 I then lien illie p one til thunderstruck I 1 imam 1 I 1 annl i 1 hut I 1 could hen nothing see nothing I 1 went vent up clift shore down the shore here but there wai only tillit single foot footprint terrified T prided to the ast degree I 1 ran inn to tn my hahl h ihl antion like it one purged pin sued and for three ds days find nights thereafter I 1 lid did not stir stir out after oh r atlon I 1 learned that it asis habit of from the iraln land to conn com to a part of the leand which I 1 salom visited to feast upon lipa it the bomes hoaks of their captured oie morning from m lily took look out I 1 perceived thirty sav aiges dancing n round around a alre they the had cooked one victim T f id had and two more reidy ready for the fire when I 1 descended upon them with two loaded muskets and my great sword and was in time to save one which they had not yet eaten the saved min man I 1 called friday in honor boner of the day of lit his rescue ani and his wn 4 the first fir it voice I 1 heard in all my 21 25 years e irs on the Is island and lie he was BBS young intelligent of a superior race of say sav ages and became tiny my trusted compan ton inn for all the time I 1 remained on the island wha hav friday told nio me of the main land sifter I 1 had taught him some decided me to leave my island N V e built a boat this time not too far froni from the sea for launching and were almost ready to set sail when 21 savages in three canoes landed on the iland with three prisoners for n feast one of the prisoners was a white man n which enraged me I 1 double charged two fowling pieces four muskets two pistols and giving friday a ba hatchet achot rand anti also a great dram of rum ruin and myself my great sword we descended and killed all but four of the savages one of the prisoners was fridays fi father lither the white man was w as a spaniard n survivor sun h or from a ship of which I 1 hall had soon oon the wrecked hull on my island some years ears before this and from which I 1 anil and taken some 1200 1 pieces ITT of f r gold old hut but of which I 1 made small account because of its being of less value abue to to me than so much annd ot of tile the bench belie if tho the an and J FrId itys s father I 1 sent with fire aims and food in my now in boat to bring hark back tile the wrecked w arc crew of the panah th ship lewalt uniting for their return an english ship with it a oust crew put into my mv island I 1 helped the captain recover his ship find took pr anae with him fr rj ml living on the island the not it millions merit anem erg klirs wit will two gionest ones oms who wished also to re iman na in later my mv spaniards returned find nil ill to together on tile the island 1 suing having their luar dissension nt fit first but nettling tiling tP down own finally into a it flourishing our tithing colony which some soine years later it was my nn peppiness to visit alt after A tier twenty ent lidit els two months find alnet flieten en dins I 1 left my m Islar island 4 I 1 much joy jov of mv lily arrival tn in Tsi teigland gland but I 1 was like ilke a stranger there my mv mother and were both lead which was unfortunate it as I 1 could have hae been of groat q service ervice to them him for boil besides fles ill alie 1200 1 pieces of gold from tile the spanish ship there was wag pounds sterling awaiting na me from an honest friend a port portuguese e captain apt aln to whom I 1 had entrusted my y in the before so setting tina forth on the ill fated errand which hl throw me for twenty eight years on nn M IN 1 so pleased was I 1 with will bis honesty linn si hat I 1 mottled piol durei dures a ir on in him and fifty mol dures a year on oil lilt his son both for life I 1 married lind begot three children and except for the one ainge to the old ill island of which I 1 have spoken 1 I 1 limed mimed no more so here I 1 am having lived it life of infinite variety for 29 years blessed avith more than I 1 des sarve m find resolved to prepare now for the longest journey of nit ait if I 1 have birned ir anything it Is IR a knowledge of ill tha alue of retirement and tit the e bless in of nf ending our las days in pence peace t MT 1919 by the pot post publishing co obe fhe boston bonton post |