The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson for Boys and Girls

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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.

In the life of one of Scotland's great men, Robert Louis Stevenson, we
find proud record of his grandfather, Robert Stevenson, having built
Bell Rock Lighthouse on this same spot years afterward.