THE GOLD BUG - learning English It is some kind of a retelling of the story written by Edgar Poe. The story is about the treasures left by pirate William Kidd at South Carolina, US. There was a man called Legrand. He had a friend who told us the story. Legrand was a very educated man and somewhen he had been a rich man, but he lost his fortune, so he lived in the small house on the coast of the island with his servant Jupiter. They ate fish and birds which they caught. One day Legrand's friend took a visit Legrand and learned that Legrand had found an unusual bug, but he hadn’t brought it along because he had taken it to the Lieutenant. The Lieutenant has also interested the insects and even had a book about them. Legrand drew the picture on a piece of a paper which had been found along the bug to somehow describe the bug to his friend. The paper had been made from animal’s skin. But there were the strange red symbols on the paper. Those writings captured the attention of Legrand so much that he didn’t speak the rest of the day. Next morning the storyteller left the island. After a while servant of Legrand came to the storyteller and reported that Legrand was going mad. He was doing strange things. He is probably ill. He didn’t eat and didn’t sleep. He was just writing numbers and letters and talking to himself. there was a letter from Legrand with the servant. In the letter, Legrand asked his friend to come to the island to explain. When the storyteller arrived Legrand it happened that Legrand wasn’t going crazy at all. The bug was a thing that had been owned by pirate William Kidd, while the piece of the paper with red letters was actually a description of the spot where the hidden treasures were. Next day three of them went to look for the treasure of a horrible pirate. The spot was on the coast of the mainland near the tall old tree. To find the right spot the servant climbed the tree and passed the bug through the left eye of a skull which had been left on the branch. The fallen insect pointed out the friends the accurate spot on the land where they had to dig. It took them three journeys to the mainland to get all treasure.