to taketakea hint from these honest victuallers , and shall prefix not only a general bill of fare to our whole entertainment , but shall likewise give the reader particular bills to every course which is to be served up in this and the ensuing volumes .
As young readers like to know ' how people look ' , we will taketakethis moment to givegivethem a little sketch of the four sisters , who sat knittingknitaway in the twilight , while the December snowsnowfell quietly without , and the firefirecrackledcracklecheerfully within .
PART ONE -- The Old Buccaneer 1 The Old Sea-dog at the Admiral Benbow SQUIRE TRELAWNEY , Dr. Livesey , and the rest of these gentlemen having askedaskme to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island , from the beginning to the end , keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island , and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted , I taketakeup my pen in the year of grace 17 __ and gogoback to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn and the brown old seaman with the sabre cut first tooktakeup his lodging under our roof .