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Title: Pirate Gold

Author: Frederic Jesup Stimson

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PIRATE GOLD

by

F. J. STIMSON
(J. S. of Dale)

Boston and New York
Houghton, Mifflin and Company
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1896

Copyright, 1895 and 1896,
by Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

Copyright, 1896,
by F. J. Stimson.
All rights reserved.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

PART ONE: DISCOVERY 1

PART TWO: ROBBERY 75

PART THREE: RECOVERY 137

PIRATE GOLD

PART ONE: DISCOVERY.

I.

It consisted of a few hundred new American eagles and a few times as
many Spanish doubloons; for pirates like good broad pieces, fit to
skim flat-spun across the waves, or play pitch-and-toss with for men's
lives or women's loves; they give five-dollar pieces or thin British
guineas to the boy who brings them drink, and silver to their
bootblacks, priests, or beggars.

It was contained--the gold--in an old canvas bag, a little rotten and
very brown and mouldy, but tied a