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Title: Blackbeard: Buccaneer

Author: Ralph D. Paine

Illustrator: Frank E. Schoonover

Release Date: May 14, 2008 [EBook #25472]

Language: English

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[Illustration: THIS LEAN, STRAIGHT ROVER LOOKED THE PART OF A COMPETENT
SOLDIER]

BLACKBEARD BUCCANEER

_By_ RALPH D. PAINE

[Illustration]

_Illustrated by
Frank E. Schoonover_

THE PENN PUBLISHING
COMPANY PHILADELPHIA

COPYRIGHT
1922 BY
THE PENN
PUBLISHING
COMPANY

Blackbeard: Buccaneer

Made in the U. S. A.

Contents

I. THAT COURTEOUS PIRATE, CAPTAIN BONNET 7

II. THE MERCHANT TRADER, _PLYMOUTH ADVENTURE_ 21

III. HELD AS HOSTAGES TO BLACKBEARD 43

IV. THE CAPTIVE SEAMEN IN THE FORECASTLE 62

V. RELEASING A FEARFUL WEAPON 79

VI. THE VOYAGE OF THE LITTLE RAFT 99

VII. THE MIST OF THE CHEROKEE SWAMP 114

VIII. THE EPISODE OF THE WINDING CREEK 132

IX. BLACKBEARD'S ERRAND IS INTERRUPTED 147

X. THE SEA URCHIN AND THE CARPENTER'S MATE 161

XI. JACK JOURNEYS AFOOT 177

XII. A PRIVATE ACCOUNT TO SETTLE 189

XIII. OUR HEROES SEEK SECLUSION 203

XIV. BLACKBEARD APPEARS IN FIRE AND BRIMSTONE 217

XV. MR. PETER FORBES MOURNS HIS NEPHEW 232

XVI. NED RACKHAM'S PLANS GO MUCH AMISS