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Title: Harper's Young People, June 1, 1880
An Illustrated Weekly

Author: Various

Release Date: May 26, 2009 [EBook #28975]

Language: English

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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, JUNE 1, 1880 ***

Produced by Annie McGuire

[Illustration: HARPER'S

YOUNG PEOPLE

AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.]

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VOL. I.--NO. 31. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR
CENTS.

Tuesday, June 1, 1880. Copyright, 1880, by HARPER & BROTHERS. $1.50 per
Year, in Advance.

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[Illustration: THE MORAL PIRATES EXAMINE THEIR CRAFT.]

THE MORAL PIRATES.

BY WM. L. ALDEN.

CHAPTER I.

"The truth is, John," said Mr. Wilson to his brother, "I am troubled
about my boy. Here it is the first of July, and he can't go back to
school until the middle of September. He will be idle all that time, and
I'm afraid he'll get into mischief. Now the other day I found him
reading a wretched story about pirates. Why should a son of mine care to
read about pirates?"

"Because he's a boy. All boys like piratical stories. I know, when I was
a boy, I thought that if I could be either a pirate or a stage-driver I
should be perfectly happy. Of course you don't want Harry to read
rubbish; but it doesn't follow, because a boy reads stories about
piracy, that he wants to commit murder and robbery. I didn't want to
kill anybody: I wanted to be a moral and benevolent pirate. But here
comes Harry across the lawn. What will you give me if I will find
something for him to do this summer that will make him forget all about
piracy?"

"I only wish you would. Tell me what your plan is."

"Come here a minute, Harry," said Uncle John. "Now own up: do you like
books about pirates?"

"Well, yes, uncle, I do."

"So did I when I was your age. I thought it would be the best fun in the
world to be a Red Revenger of the Seas."

"Wouldn't it, though!" exclaimed Harry. "I don't mean it would be fun
to kill people, and to steal watches, but to have a schooner of your