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Title: Humphrey Bold
A Story of the Times of Benbow

Author: Herbert Strang

Release Date: June 13, 2005 [eBook #16049]

Language: English

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HUMPHREY BOLD

A Story of the Time of Benbow

by

HERBERT STRANG

1909

CONTENTS

Chapter 1: The Wyle Cop.
Chapter 2: Joe Breaks His Indentures.
Chapter 3: I Meet The Mohocks.
Chapter 4: Captain John Benbow.
Chapter 5: I Lose My Best Friend.
Chapter 6: I Take Articles.
Chapter 7: A Crown Piece.
Chapter 8: I Fall Among Thieves.
Chapter 9: Good Samaritans.
Chapter 10: The Shuttered Coach.
Chapter 11: I Hold A Turnpike.
Chapter 12: I Come To Bristowe--And Leave Unwillingly.
Chapter 13: Duguay-Trouin.
Chapter 14: Harmony And Some Discord.
Chapter 15: The Bass Viol.
Chapter 16: Across The Moat.
Chapter 17: Exchanges.
Chapter 18: In The Name Of King Lewis.
Chapter 19: I Fight Duguay-Trouin.
Chapter 20: The King's Commission.
Chapter 21: I Meet Dick Cludde.
Chapter 22: I Walk Into A Snare.
Chapter 23: Uncle Moses.
Chapter 24: I Make A Bid For Liberty.
Chapter 25: I Spend Cludde's Crown Piece.
Chapter 26: We Hold A Council Of War.
Chapter 27: Some Successes And A Rebuff.
Chapter 28: I Cut The Enemy's Cables.
Chapter 29: We Bombard The Brig.
Chapter 30: The Six Days' Battle.
Chapter 31: The Cockpit.
Chapter 32: I Become Bold.

Chapter 1: The Wyle Cop.

'Tis said that as a man declines towards old age his mind dwells
ever more and more on the events of his childhood. Whether that be
true of all men or not, certain it is that my memory of things that
happened fifty years ago is very clear and bright, and the little
incidents of my boyhood are more to me, because they touch me more
nearly, than such great matters as the late rebellion against His
Majesty King George, whom God preserve.

Especially does my thought run back to a day, fifty-six years ago
this very summer, when by mere chance, as it would appear to men's
eyes, my fortunes became linked wit