Descendant of a Pirate.

IF THERE IS CONTROVERSY!

Just a Few Bits From the Olden Days With Some Comment On a Certain
Critic.

SOME CLIPPINGS--AND A LETTER

Which Tells How One Who Did Not Know Set Himself Up As a "Chanty"
Authority.

YO-HO-HO AND A BOTTLE OF RUM

Discussed As a Chanty Entertainingly By a Mariner and With a
Deep-Sea Flavor.

SUPPLEMENTING _the_ TEXT

YOUNG EWING ALLISON (By Cusick) _Frontispiece._

A "Sitting" for Which Photograph Forms A Story Known Only to This
Writer.

DERELICT _Illuminating the Poem_

Facsimiles of the Original Illustrations in _Rubric_ (Vol. 1,
No. 1, 1901) to Which Certain Piratical Tints Have Been Added.

"A TEMPTING BAUBLE"

Said "Bauble" Being a Check (to Cover the Cost of a Certain Book)
Which Allison Returned in a Frame With a Few Comments of His Own.

YOUNG E. ALLISON (By Wyncie King)

_Louisville Herald_ Demon Caricaturist's Conception of a Pirate's
Poet, With a Cigarette Replacing the Customary "Stogie."

THE INFALLIBLE (By Charles Dana Gibson)

A "Type" in Every Old Daily Newspaper Office, Reproduced from
_Century_ (October, 1889), Illustrating "The Longworth Mystery."

BOOK OF "THE OGALLALLAS"

Being a Facsimile (Slightly Reduced) of the Cover of Allison's
First Opera Pursued and Captured By a Jinx.

FROM THE OLD "PROMPT" BOOK

Page (slightly reduced) From "The Mouse and the Garter," Showing
Allison's Characteristic Penciled Notations.

"A PIRATICAL BALLAD" (Words and Music)

Facsimile in Miniature of the First Printed Verses of "Derelict"
Published and Copyrighted by William A. Pond & Co., 1891.

* * * * *

Together With Certain Letters and Memoranda, Proofs, Mss., etc.,
About "Fifteen Dead Men," in Facsimile of Young E. Allison's
Characteristic Handwriting, which are to be Found in a "Pocket" in
the Inside Back Cover of This Volume.

A WORD SAID BEFOREHAND

If a careless and uninformed writer in _The New York Times Book Review_ had
not hazarded the speculation in his columns that it was very doubtful if
Young Ewing Allison wrote the famous poem "Fifteen Men on the Dead Man's
Chest," the creation and perfection of which took him through a period of
about six years, the idea of undertaking a sketch of him and t