“ It's a pleasant thing to be young and have ten toes, and you may lay to that. ”
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island (1883). copy citation
| Author | Robert Louis Stevenson |
|---|---|
| Source | Treasure Island |
| Topic | youth health |
| Date | 1883 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/120/120-h/120-h.htm |
Context
“You'll bathe, and you'll climb trees, and you'll hunt goats, you will; and you'll get aloft on them hills like a goat yourself. Why, it makes me young again. I was going to forget my timber leg, I was. It's a pleasant thing to be young and have ten toes, and you may lay to that. When you want to go a bit of exploring, you just ask old John, and he'll put up a snack for you to take along.»
And clapping me in the friendliest way upon the shoulder, he hobbled off forward and went below.” source
And clapping me in the friendliest way upon the shoulder, he hobbled off forward and went below.” source
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