Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
 
The Characters
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All illustrations created by Jack Greenhalgh
 
Billie Bones

Billie Bones

How Stevenson describes him:

"A tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man; his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulders of his soiled blue coat; his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails; and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white".

His role in Treasure Island:

A drunken, violent and yet terrified man who brings the map to Jim's Inn. He is given the Black Spot by Blind Pew and dies of a heart attack from terror.

Billy Bones said,

"Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum...(hic)".

 
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