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Title: The Black Buccaneer

Author: Stephen W. Meader

Release Date: March 27, 2009 [EBook #28418]

Language: English

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THE BLACK BUCCANEER

BY

STEPHEN W. MEADER

ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR

NEW YORK

HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY
HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC.

Twelfth printing, May, 1940

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BY QUINN & BODEN COMPANY, INC., RAHWAY, N. J.

FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS

"If a man starts to haul on that line, I'll shoot him
dead!" _Frontispiece_

FACING
PAGE

"Ho, ho, young woodcock, and how do ye like the
company of Stede Bonnet's rovers?" 23

"Don't say a word--sh!--easy there--are you
awake?" 143

A sudden red glare on the walls of the chasm 223

Job had bracketed his target 247

THE BLACK BUCCANEER

CHAPTER I

On the morning of the 15th of July, 1718, anyone who had been standing
on the low rocks of the Penobscot bay shore might have seen a large,
clumsy boat of hewn planking making its way out against the tide that
set strongly up into the river mouth. She was loaded deep with a
shifting, noisy cargo that lifted white noses and huddled broad, woolly
backs--in fact, nothing le