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Title: Captain Boldheart & the Latin-Grammar Master
A Holiday Romance from the Pen of Lieut-Col. Robin Redforth, aged 9

Author: Charles Dickens

Illustrator: S. Beatrice Pearse

Release Date: December 7, 2007 [EBook #23765]

Language: English

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CAPTAIN BOLDHEART

BY

CHARLES DICKENS

ILLUSTRATED BY
BEATRICE PEARSE

[Illustration: "Invited them to Breakfast"]

CAPTAIN BOLDHEART
& THE LATIN-GRAMMAR
MASTER

A HOLIDAY ROMANCE FROM
THE PEN OF LIEUT-COL.
ROBIN REDFORTH
AGED 9.

BY

CHARLES DICKENS

LONDON: CONSTABLE AND CO. LTD.

FOREWORD

The story contained herein was written by Charles Dickens in 1867. It is
the third of four stories entitled "Holiday Romance" and was published
originally in a children's magazine in America. It purports to be
written by a child aged nine. It was republished in England in "All the
Year Round" in 1868. For this and four other Christmas pieces Dickens
received L1,000.

"Holiday Romance" was published in book form by Messrs Chapman & Hall in
1874, with "Edwin Drood" and other stories.

For this reprint the text of the story as it appeared in "All the Year
Round" has been followed.

CAPTAIN BOLDHEART AND THE LATIN-GRAMMAR MASTER

The subject of our present narrative would appear to have devoted
himself to the Pirate profession at a comparatively early age. We find
him in command of a splendid schooner of one hundred guns, loaded to the
muzzle, 'ere yet he had had a party in honour of his tenth birthday.

It seems that our hero, considering himself spited by a
Latin-Grammar-Master, demanded the satisfaction due from one man of
honour to another. Not getting it, he privately withdrew his haughty
spirit from such low company, bought a second-hand pocket-pistol, folded