"I knocked it down with a stick." — illustration for Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" (1891)

I knocked it down with a stick

Wal Paget (1863-1935)

full-page lithograph

12 cm high by 9.2 cm wide, vignetted.

1891

Robinson Crusoe, embedded on page 77.

Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.

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Passage Illustrated: Crusoe acquires pet parrot

With these considerations, I walked very leisurely forward. I found that side of the island where I now was much pleasanter than mine — the open or savannah fields sweet, adorned with flowers and grass, and full of very fine woods. I saw abundance of parrots, and fain I would have caught one, if possible, to have kept it to be tame, and taught it to speak to me. I did, after some painstaking, catch a young parrot, for I knocked it down with a stick, and having recovered it, I brought it home; but it was some years before I could make him speak; however, at last I taught him to call me by name very familiarly. But the accident that followed, though it be a trifle, will be very diverting in its place. [Chapter VIII, "Surveys His Position," page 79]

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Reference

Defoe, Daniel. The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Of York, Mariner. As Related by Himself. With upwards of One Hundred and Twenty Original Illustrations by Walter Paget. London, Paris, and Melbourne: Cassell, 1891.

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