THE LIFE OF
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
"Write me as one who loves his fellowmen."
—HUNT.
CHAPTER I
THE LIGHTHOUSE BUILDERS
". . . For the sake
Of these, my kinsmen and my countrymen,
Who early and late in the windy ocean toiled
To plant a star for seamen."
The pirate, Ralph the Rover, so legend tells, while cruising off the coast of Scotland searching for booty or sport, sank the warning bell on one of the great rocks, to plague the good Abbot of Arbroath who had put it there. The following year the Rover returned and perished himself on the same rock.