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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Pirate's Pocket Book, by Dion Clayton Calthrop This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Pirate's Pocket Book Author: Dion Clayton Calthrop Release Date: March 8, 2008 [eBook #24783] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PIRATE'S POCKET BOOK*** E-text prepared by Emmy and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 24783-h.htm or 24783-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/4/7/8/24783/24783-h/24783-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/4/7/8/24783/24783-h.zip) THE PIRATE'S POCKET BOOK by DION CLAYTON CALTHROP [Illustration] Sisley's Ltd. Makers Of Beautiful Books London To GEORGE, BARBARA and JAMES BYAM SHAW _with my love_. 1907. THE PIRATE'S POCKET BOOK THIS book you hold in your hand belonged once to a very celebrated Pirate. He was so celebrated that the newspapers--of that time--always said nice things about him, and always knew what he was doing before he did himself. As he was a very truthful man, he did the things, so that the editors might not get into trouble. Which was kind. By which I do not mean that he was always kind. [Illustration: MAP of Tomb's Island (_very exciting_).] Nobody knew how old he was. Some said that he was so old that he had never been born. Some said that he must be young or he could not be so wicked. So you see there were two opinions about him. There are always two opinions about a celebrated man. If you look at him you will see that he dressed to please himself. [Illustration: Supposed birthplace of Tomb family. Family of Bone still living in the cottage.] He wore a nice hat--but you have noticed that; and he had a roving eye. By which I do not mean his eye walked about like this, but that he looked around him a good deal. [Illustration] If you are thinking of becomin
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