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Kate Bonnet The Romance of a Pirate's Daughter By: Frank Richard Stockton (1834-1902) |
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The Romance of a Pirate's Daughter by FRANK R. STOCKTON Illustrated by A. J. Keller and H. S. Potter [Illustration: "Oh, Kate!" said Dickory, "you should have seen that
wonderful pirate fight." (See page 350.)] [Illustration]
New York
D. Appleton and Company
1902
Copyright, 1901, 1903
By D. Appleton and Company
All rights reserved
February, 1902
CONTENTS CHAPTER I. TWO YOUNG PEOPLE, A SHIP, AND A FISH II. A FRUIT BASKET AND A FRIEND III. THE TWO CLOCKS IV. ON THE QUARTER DECK V. AN UNSUCCESSFUL ERRAND VI. A PAIR OF SHOES AND STOCKINGS VII. KATE PLANS VIII. BEN GREENWAY IS CONVINCED THAT BONNET IS A PIRATE IX. DICKORY SETS FORTH X. CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER VINCE XI. BAD WEATHER XII. FACE TO FACE XIII. CAPTAIN BONNET GOES TO CHURCH XIV. A GIRL TO THE FRONT XV. THE GOVERNOR OF JAMAICA XVI. A QUESTION OF ETIQUETTE XVII. AN ORNAMENTED BEARD XVIII. I HAVE NO RIGHT; I AM A PIRATE XIX. THE NEW FIRST LIEUTENANT XX. ONE NORTH, ONE SOUTH XXI. A PROJECTED MARRIAGE XXII. BLADE TO BLADE XXIII. THE ADDRESS OF THE LETTER XXIV. BELIZE XXV. WISE MR. DELAPLAINE XXVI. DICKORY STRETCHES HIS LEGS XXVII. A GIRL WHO LAUGHED XXVIII. LUCILLA'S SHIP XXIX. CAPTAIN ICHABOD XXX. DAME CHARTER MAKES A FRIEND XXXI. MR. DELAPLAINE LEADS A BOARDING PARTY XXXII. THE DELIVERY OF THE LETTER XXXIII. BLACKBEARD GIVES GREENWAY SOME DIFFICULT WORK XXXIV. CAPTAIN THOMAS OF THE ROYAL JAMES XXXV. A CHAPTER OF HAPPENINGS XXXVI. THE TIDE DECIDES XXXVII. BONNET AND GREENWAY PART COMPANY XXXVIII. AGAIN DICKORY WAS THERE XXXIX. THE BLESSINGS WHICH COME FROM THE DEATH OF THE WICKED XL. CAPTAIN ICHABOD PUTS THE CASE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE "Oh, Kate!" said Dickory, "you should have seen that wonderful pirate
fight" Frontispiece "If you talk to me like that I will cut you down where you stand!" 46 "He is my father!" said Kate 124 "Haste ye! haste ye," cried Dickory, "they will leave you behind" 155 "Take that," he feebly said, "and swear that it shall be delivered" 241 Kate and her father in the warehouse 260 Lucilla rescues Dickory 337 In an instant Dickory was there 403
KATE BONNET
CHAPTER I TWO YOUNG PEOPLE, A SHIP, AND A FISH
The month was September and the place was in the neighbourhood of
Bridgetown, in the island of Barbadoes. The seventeenth century was not
seventeen years old, but the girl who walked slowly down to the river
bank was three years its senior. She carried a fishing rod and line, and
her name was Kate Bonnet. She was a bright faced, quick moving young
person, and apparently did not expect to catch many fish, for she had no
basket in which to carry away her finny prizes. Nor, apparently, did she
have any bait, except that which was upon her hook and which had been
affixed there by one of the servants at her home, not far away. In fact,
Mistress Kate was too nicely dressed and her gloves were too clean to
have much to do with fish or bait, but she seated herself on a little
rock in a shady spot not far from the water and threw forth her line.
Then she gazed about her; a little up the river and a good deal down the
river. It was truly a pleasant scene which lay before her eyes. Not half a mile
away was the bridge which gave this English settlement its name, and
beyond the river were woods and cultivated fields, with here and there a
little bit of smoke, for it was growing late in the afternoon, when
smoke meant supper. Beyond all this the land rose from the lower ground
near the river and the sea, in terrace after terrace, until the upper
stretches of its woodlands showed clear against the evening sky. But Mistress Kate Bonnet now gazed steadily down the stream, beyond the
town and the bridge, and paid no more attention to the scenery than the
scenery did to her, although one was quite as beautiful as the other... Continue reading book >>
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