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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Queen of the Pirate Isle, by Bret Harte 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.net Title: The Queen of the Pirate Isle Author: Bret Harte Illustrator: Kate Greenaway Release Date: November 27, 2005 [EBook #17168] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE *** Produced by Suzanne Shell, Cori Samuel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net THE QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE BY BRET HARTE ILLUSTRATED BY KATE GREENAWAY A FACSIMILE FROM THE ORIGINAL PUBLICATION OF 1885 [Illustration] UNIVERSAL BOOKS LTD, LONDON, ENGLAND Harte, Bret, 1836-1902. ISBN 0 86441 018 2. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE MRS SMITH 7 POLLY 10 BEGGAR CHILD 12 SCHOOL MISTRESS 12 INDIAN MAIDEN 13 PROUD LADY 14 CHINESE JUNK 15 SWIMMING FOR HIS LIFE 16 A TENT 17 CAPTURE OF MERCHANTMAN 18 AT SUPPER 20 POLLY IN THE BRANCHES 23 PATSEY 25 SLUMGULLION 28 EACH OTHER'S HANDS 30 EDGE OF CLIFF 31 SLIDING DOWN HILL 32 PIG TAIL ROPE 34 FIREWORKS IN CAVE 37 LADY MARY'S HAIR GONE 39 INVISIBLE MEDICINE 42 CLAD IN DEEPEST MOURNING 44 BROTHER STEP-AND-FETCH-IT 48 WAN LEE 54 NOT ALWAYS PIRATES 56 POLLY BROUGHT HOME 58 ASLEEP WITH DOLL 60 [Illustration] THE QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE. I first knew her as the Queen of the Pirate Isle. To the best of my recollection she had no reasonable right to that title. She was only nine years old, inclined to plumpness and good humour, deprecated violence and had never been to sea. Need it be added that she did _not_ live in an island and that her name was "Polly." [Illustration] [Illustration] Perhaps I ought to explain that she had already known other experiences of a purely imaginative character. Part of her existence had been passed as a Beg
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