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Title: Captain Scraggs
or, The Green-Pea Pirates

Author: Peter B. Kyne

Illustrator: Gordon Grant

Release Date: May 29, 2006 [EBook #18469]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "_Captain Scraggs threw his brown derby on the
deck and leaped upon it._"]

CAPTAIN SCRAGGS

OR

THE GREEN-PEA PIRATES

BY PETER B. KYNE

AUTHOR OF CAPPY RICKS, THE LONG CHANCE,
THE VALLEY OF THE GIANTS,
WEBSTER--MAN'S MAN, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED BY

GORDON GRANT

GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1919, BY
PETER B. KYNE

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES
AT
THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N.Y.

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY THE SUNSET MAGAZINE

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"Captain Scraggs threw his brown derby on the
deck and leaped upon it" _Frontispiece_ (_See page 6_)

FACING PAGE

"'Great Snakes!' he yelled--and fell back against
the cabin wall" 156

"Captain Scraggs ... broke from the circle
of savages ... and fled for the beach" 232

"Tabu-Tabu ... planted a mighty right in
the centre of Mr. Gibney's physiognomy" 252

CAPTAIN SCRAGGS

OR

THE GREEN-PEA PIRATES

CHAPTER I

They had seen the fog rolling down the coast shortly after the
_Maggie_ had rounded Pilar Point at sunset and headed north.
Captain Scraggs has been steamboating too many unprofitable years
on San Francisco Bay, the Suisun and San Pablo sloughs and
dogholes and the Sacramento River to be deceived as to the
character of that fog, and he remarked as much to Mr. Gibney.
"We'd better turn back to Halfmoon Bay and tie up at the dock,"
he added.

"Calamity howler!" retorted Mr. Gibney and gave the wheel a spoke
or two. "Scraggsy, you're enough to mak