THE QUEEN
OF THE
PIRATE ISLE
BY
BRET HARTE
ILLUSTRATED BY
KATE GREENAWAY
A FACSIMILE FROM THE ORIGINAL PUBLICATION OF 1885
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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
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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."
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Perhaps I ought to explain that she had already known other experiences of a purely imaginative
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: The Queen of the Pirate Isle by Bret Harte
- 2: Smith was resuscitated only for a day
- 3: Melican boy's papa heap lickee
- 4: On the ridge they met one Patsey
- 5: Pilats catchee gold allee samee Melican man
- 6: The eyes of the four children became rounder and rounder
- 7: Chinee boy he talkee Spillit not to frighten you
- 8: Polly withheld from joining them
- 9: Observing that Polly shrank slightly back
- 10: Will Your Majesty fire this barrel of Gunpowder
- 11: ' But me no catchee folty dolla
- 12: But were they really awake now