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Title: The Queen of the Pirate Isle

Author: Bret Harte

Illustrator: Kate Greenaway

Release Date: November 27, 2005 [EBook #17168]

Language: English

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THE QUEEN

OF THE

PIRATE ISLE

BY

BRET HARTE

ILLUSTRATED BY

KATE GREENAWAY

A FACSIMILE FROM THE ORIGINAL PUBLICATION OF 1885

[Illustration]

UNIVERSAL BOOKS LTD, LONDON, ENGLAND

Harte, Bret, 1836-1902.

ISBN 0 86441 018 2.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE

MRS SMITH 7

POLLY 10

BEGGAR CHILD 12

SCHOOL MISTRESS 12

INDIAN MAIDEN 13

PROUD LADY 14

CHINESE JUNK 15

SWIMMING FOR HIS LIFE 16

A TENT 17

CAPTURE OF MERCHANTMAN 18

AT SUPPER 20

POLLY IN THE BRANCHES 23

PATSEY 25

SLUMGULLION 28

EACH OTHER'S HANDS 30

EDGE OF CLIFF 31

SLIDING DOWN HILL 32

PIG TAIL ROPE 34

FIREWORKS IN CAVE 37

LADY MARY'S HAIR GONE 39

INVISIBLE MEDICINE 42

CLAD IN DEEPEST MOURNING 44

BROTHER STEP-AND-FETCH-IT 48

WAN LEE 54

NOT ALWAYS PIRATES 56

POLLY BROUGHT HOME 58

ASLEEP WITH DOLL 60

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THE QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE.

I first knew her as the Queen of the Pirate Isle. To the best of my
recollection she had no reasonable right to that title. She was only
nine years old, inclined to plumpness and good humour, deprecated
violence and had never been to sea. Need it be added that she did
_not_ live in an island and that her name was "Polly."

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Perhaps I ought to explain that she had already known other
experiences of a purely imaginative character. Part of her existence
had been passed as a Beg