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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/23765-8.txt b/23765-8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1430a99 --- /dev/null +++ b/23765-8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,968 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Captain Boldheart & the Latin-Grammar Master, by +Charles Dickens + +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: 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 + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CAPTAIN BOLDHEART *** + + + + +Produced by Geetu Melwani and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + + + + +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 £1,000. + +"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 +up some sandwiches in a paper bag, made a bottle of Spanish +liquorice-water, and entered on a career of valour. + +It were tedious to follow Boldheart (for such was his name) through the +commencing stages of his history. Suffice it that we find him bearing +the rank of Captain Boldheart, reclining in full uniform on a crimson +hearth-rug spread out upon the quarter-deck of his schooner the Beauty, +in the China Seas. It was a lovely evening, and as his crew lay grouped +about him, he favoured them with the following melody: + + O landsmen are folly! + O Pirates are jolly! + O Diddleum Dolly, + Di! + (_Chorus_) Heave yo. + +The soothing effect of these animated sounds floating over the waters, +as the common sailors united their rough voices to take up the rich +tones of Boldheart, may be more easily conceived than described. + +It was under these circumstances that the lookout at the masthead gave +the word, "Whales!" + +All was now activity. + +"Where away?" cried Captain Boldheart, starting up. + +"On the larboard bow, sir," replied the fellow at the masthead, touching +his hat. For such was the height of discipline on board of the Beauty, +that even at that height he was obliged to mind it or be shot through +the head. + +[Illustration: "His crew lay grouped around him"] + +"This adventure belongs to me," said Boldheart. "Boy, my harpoon. Let +no man follow;" and leaping alone into his boat, the captain rowed with +admirable dexterity in the direction of the monster. + +All was now excitement. + +"He nears him!" said an elderly seaman, following the captain through +his spy-glass. + +"He strikes him!" said another seaman, a mere stripling, but also with a +spy-glass. + +"He tows him towards us!" said another seaman, a man in the full vigour +of life, but also with a spy-glass. + +In fact the captain was seen approaching, with the huge bulk following. +We will not dwell on the deafening cries of "Boldheart! Boldheart!" with +which he was received, when, carelessly leaping on the quarter-deck, he +presented his prize to his men. They afterwards made two thousand four +hundred and seventeen pound ten and sixpence by it. + +Ordering the sails to be braced up, the captain now stood W.N.W. The +Beauty flew rather than floated over the dark blue waters. Nothing +particular occurred for a fortnight, except taking, with considerable +slaughter, four Spanish galleons, and a Snow from South America, all +richly laden. Inaction began to tell upon the spirits of the men. +Captain Boldheart called all hands aft, and said: + +"My lads, I hear there are discontented ones among ye. Let any such +stand forth." + +After some murmuring, in which the expressions, "Aye, aye, sir!" "Union +Jack!" "Avast," "Starboard," "Port," "Bowsprit," and similar indications +of a mutinous undercurrent, though subdued, were audible, Bill Boozey, +captain of the foretop, came out from the rest. His form was that of a +giant, but he quailed under the captain's eye. + +"What are your wrongs?" said the captain. + +"Why, d'ye see, Captain Boldheart," replied the towering mariner, "I've +sailed man and boy for many a year, but I never yet know'd the milk +served out for the ship's company's teas to be so sour as 'tis aboard +this craft." + +[Illustration: THE RESCUE OF WILLIAM BOOZEY.] + +At this moment the thrilling cry, "Man overboard!" announced to the +astonished crew that Boozey, in stepping back, as the captain (in mere +thoughtfulness) laid his hand upon the faithful pocket-pistol which he +wore in his belt, had lost his balance, and was struggling with the +foaming tide. + +All was now stupefaction. + +But, with Captain Boldheart, to throw off his uniform coat regardless of +the various rich orders with which it was decorated, and to plunge into +the sea after the drowning giant, was the work of a moment. Maddening +was the excitement when boats were lowered; intense the joy when the +captain was seen holding up the drowning man with his teeth; deafening +the cheering when both were restored to the main deck of the Beauty. And +from the instant of his changing his wet clothes for dry ones, Captain +Boldheart had no such devoted though humble friend as William Boozey. + +Boldheart now pointed to the horizon, and called the attention of his +crew to the taper spars of a ship lying snug in harbour under the guns +of a fort. + +"She shall be ours at sunrise," said he. "Serve out a double allowance +of grog, and prepare for action." + +All was now preparation. + +When morning dawned after a sleepless night, it was seen that the +stranger was crowding on all sail to come out of the harbour and offer +battle. As the two ships came nearer to each other, the stranger fired a +gun and hoisted Roman colours. Boldheart then perceived her to be the +Latin-Grammar-Master's bark. Such indeed she was, and had been tacking +about the world in unavailing pursuit, from the time of his first taking +to a roving life. + +Boldheart now addressed his men, promising to blow them up if he should +feel convinced that their reputation required it, and giving orders that +the Latin-Grammar-Master should be taken alive. He then dismissed them +to their quarters, and the fight began with a broadside from The Beauty. +She then veered round, and poured in another. The Scorpion (so was the +bark of the Latin-Grammar-Master appropriately called) was not slow to +return her fire, and a terrific cannonading ensued, in which the guns of +The Beauty did tremendous execution. + +The Latin-Grammar-Master was seen upon the poop, in the midst of the +smoke and fire, encouraging his men. To do him justice, he was no +Craven, though his white hat, his short grey trousers, and his long +snuff-coloured surtout reaching to his heels--the self-same coat in +which he had spited Boldheart--contrasted most unfavourably with the +brilliant uniform of the latter. At this moment Boldheart, seizing a +pike and putting himself at the head of his men, gave the word to board. + +A desperate conflict ensued in the hammock nettings--or somewhere in +about that direction--until the Latin-Grammar-Master, having all his +masts gone, his hull and rigging shot through and through, and seeing +Boldheart slashing a path towards him, hauled down his flag himself, +gave up his sword to Boldheart, and asked for quarter. Scarce had he +been put into the captain's boat, 'ere The Scorpion went down with all +on board. + +On Captain Boldheart's now assembling his men, a circumstance occurred. +He found it necessary with one blow of his cutlass to kill the Cook, +who, having lost his brother in the late action, was making at the +Latin-Grammar-Master in an infuriated state, intent on his destruction +with a carving-knife. + +Captain Boldheart then turned to the Latin-Grammar-Master, severely +reproaching him with his perfidy, and put it to his crew what they +considered that a master who spited a boy deserved? + +They answered with one voice, "Death." + +"It may be so," said the Captain; "but it shall never be said that +Boldheart stained his hour of triumph with the blood of his enemy. +Prepare the cutter." + +The cutter was immediately prepared. + +"Without taking your life," said the Captain, "I must yet for ever +deprive you of the power of spiting other boys. I shall turn you adrift +in this boat. You will find in her two oars, a compass, a bottle of rum, +a small cask of water, a piece of pork, a bag of biscuit, and my Latin +grammar. Go! and spite the natives, if you can find any." + +Deeply conscious of this bitter sarcasm, the unhappy wretch was put into +the cutter, and was soon left far behind. He made no effort to row, but +was seen lying on his back with his legs up, when last made out by the +ship's telescopes. + +A stiff breeze now beginning to blow, Captain Boldheart gave orders to +keep her S.S.W., easing her a little during the night by falling off a +point or two W. by W., or even by W.S., if she complained much. He then +retired for the night, having in truth much need of repose. In addition +to the fatigues he had undergone, this brave officer had received +sixteen wounds in the engagement, but had not mentioned it. + +In the morning a white squall came on, and was succeeded by other +squalls of various colours. It thundered and lightened heavily for six +weeks. Hurricanes then set in for two months. Waterspouts and tornadoes +followed. The oldest sailor on board--and he was a very old one--had +never seen such weather. The Beauty lost all idea where she was, and the +carpenter reported six feet two of water in the hold. Everybody fell +senseless at the pumps every day. + +Provisions now ran very low. Our hero put the crew on short allowance, +and put himself on shorter allowance than any man in the ship. But his +spirit kept him fat. In this extremity, the gratitude of Boozey, the +captain of the foretop whom our readers may remember, was truly +affecting. The loving though lowly William repeatedly requested to be +killed, and preserved for the captain's table. + +We now approach a change in affairs. + +One day during a gleam of sunshine and when the weather had moderated, +the man at the masthead--too weak now to touch his hat, besides its +having been blown away--called out, + +"Savages!" + +All was now expectation. + +Presently fifteen hundred canoes, each paddled by twenty savages, were +seen advancing in excellent order. They were a light green colour (the +Savages were), and sang, with great energy, the following strain: + + Choo a choo a choo tooth. + Muntch, muntch. Nycey! + Choo a choo a choo tooth. + Muntch, muntch. Nyce! + +As the shades of night were by this time closing in, these expressions +were supposed to embody this simple people's views of the Evening Hymn. +But it too soon appeared that the song was a translation of "For what +we are going to receive," &c. + +The chief, imposingly decorated with feathers of lively colours, and +having the majestic appearance of a fighting Parrot, no sooner +understood (he understood English perfectly) that the ship was The +Beauty, Captain Boldheart, than he fell upon his face on the deck, and +could not be persuaded to rise until the captain had lifted him up, & +told him he wouldn't hurt him. All the rest of the savages also fell on +their faces with marks of terror, and had also to be lifted up one by +one. Thus the fame of the great Boldheart had gone before him, even +among these children of Nature. + +Turtles and oysters were now produced in astonishing numbers, and on +these and yams the people made a hearty meal. After dinner the Chief +told Captain Boldheart that there was better feeding up at the village, +and that he would be glad to take him and his officers there. +Apprehensive of treachery, Boldheart ordered his boat's crew to attend +him completely armed. And well were it for other commanders if their +precautions--but let us not anticipate. + +[Illustration: "Arm-in-arm with the Chief"] + +[Illustration: "TWO SAVAGES FLOURED HIM BEFORE PUTTING HIM TO THE +FIRE."] + +When the canoes arrived at the beach, the darkness of the night was +illumined by the light of an immense fire. Ordering his boat's crew +(with the intrepid though illiterate William at their head) to keep +close and be upon their guard, Boldheart bravely went on, arm-in-arm +with the Chief. + +But how to depict the captain's surprise when he found a ring of Savages +singing in chorus that barbarous translation of "For what we are going +to receive, &c.," which has been given above, and dancing hand-in-hand +round the Latin-Grammar-Master, in a hamper with his head shaved, while +two savages floured him, before putting him to the fire to be cooked! + +Boldheart now took counsel with his officers on the course to be +adopted. In the mean time, the miserable captive never ceased begging +pardon and imploring to be delivered. On the generous Boldheart's +proposal, it was at length resolved that he should not be cooked, but +should be allowed to remain raw, on two conditions. Namely, + + 1. That he should never under any circumstances presume to teach + any boy any thing any more. + + 2. That, if taken back to England, he should pass his life in + travelling to find out boys who wanted their exercises done, and + should do their exercises for those boys for nothing, and never say + a word about it. + +Drawing his sword from its sheath, Boldheart swore him to these +conditions on its shining blade. The prisoner wept bitterly, and +appeared acutely to feel the errors of his past career. + +The captain then ordered his boat's crew to make ready for a volley, and +after firing to re-load quickly. "And expect a score or two on ye to go +head over heels," murmured William Boozey; "for I'm a looking at ye." +With those words the derisive though deadly William took a good aim. + +"Fire!" + +The ringing voice of Boldheart was lost in the report of the guns and +the screeching of the savages. Volley after volley awakened the numerous +echoes. Hundreds of savages were killed, hundreds wounded, and thousands +ran howling into the woods. The Latin-Grammar-Master had a spare +night-cap lent him, and a longtail coat which he wore hind side +before. He presented a ludicrous though pitiable appearance, and serve +him right. + +[Illustration: "THE LATIN-GRAMMAR-MASTER HAD A SPARE NIGHTCAP LENT HIM +AND A LONGTAIL COAT WHICH HE WORE HIND SIDE BEFORE."] + +[Illustration: "ERE THE SUN WENT DOWN FULL MANY A HORNPIPE HAD BEEN +DANCED ... BY THE UNCOUTH THOUGH AGILE WILLIAM."] + +We now find Captain Boldheart, with this rescued wretch on board, +standing off for other islands. At one of these, not a cannibal island, +but a pork and vegetable one, he married (only in fun on his part) the +King's daughter. Here he rested some time, receiving from the natives +great quantities of precious stones, gold dust, elephants' teeth, and +sandal wood, and getting very rich. This, too, though he almost every +day made presents of enormous value to his men. + +The ship being at length as full as she could hold of all sorts of +valuable things, Boldheart gave orders to weigh the anchor, and turn the +Beauty's head towards England. These orders were obeyed with three +cheers, and ere the sun went down full many a hornpipe had been danced +on deck by the uncouth though agile William. + +We next find Captain Boldheart about three leagues off Madeira, +surveying through his spy-glass a stranger of suspicious appearance +making sail towards him. On his firing a gun ahead of her to bring +her to, she ran up a flag, which he instantly recognized as the flag +from the mast in the back-garden at home. + +[Illustration: "Married the Chief's daughter"] + +Inferring from this, that his father had put to sea to seek his +long-lost son, the captain sent his own boat on board the stranger, to +inquire if this was so, and if so, whether his father's intentions were +strictly honourable. The boat came back with a present of greens and +fresh meat, and reported that the stranger was The Family of twelve +hundred tons, and had not only the captain's father on board, but also +his mother, with the majority of his aunts and uncles, and all his +cousins. It was further reported to Boldheart that the whole of these +relations had expressed themselves in a becoming manner, and were +anxious to embrace him and thank him for the glorious credit he had done +them. Boldheart at once invited them to breakfast next morning on board +the Beauty, and gave orders for a brilliant ball that should last all +day. + +It was in the course of the night that the captain discovered the +hopelessness of reclaiming the Latin-Grammar-Master. That thankless +traitor was found out, as the two ships lay near each other, +communicating with The Family by signals, and offering to give up +Boldheart. He was hanged at the yard-arm the first thing in the morning, +after having it impressively pointed out to him by Boldheart that this +was what spiters came to. + +The meeting between the captain and his parents was attended with tears. +His uncles and aunts would have attended their meeting with tears too, +but he wasn't going to stand that. His cousins were very much astonished +by the size of his ship and the discipline of his men, and were greatly +overcome by the splendour of his uniform. He kindly conducted them round +the vessel, and pointed out every thing worthy of notice. He also fired +his hundred guns, and found it amusing to witness their alarm. + +The entertainment surpassed everything ever seen on board ship, and +lasted from ten in the morning until seven the next morning. Only one +disagreeable incident occurred. Captain Boldheart found himself obliged +to put his cousin Tom in irons, for being disrespectful. On the boy's +promising amendment, however, he was humanely released after a few +hours' close confinement. + +Boldheart now took his mother down into the great cabin, and asked after +the young lady with whom, it was well known to the world, he was in +love. His mother replied that the object of his affections was then at +school at Margate, for the benefit of sea-bathing (it was the month of +September), but that she feared the young lady's friends were still +opposed to the union. Boldheart at once resolved, if necessary, to +bombard the town. + +Taking the command of his ship with this intention, and putting all but +fighting men on board The Family, with orders to that vessel to keep in +company, Boldheart soon anchored in Margate Roads. Here he went ashore +well-armed, and attended by his boat's crew (at their head the faithful +though ferocious William), and demanded to see the Mayor, who came out +of his office. + +"Dost know the name of yon ship, Mayor?" asked Boldheart fiercely. + +[Illustration: "DOST KNOW THE NAME OF YON SHIP, MAYOR?"] + +[Illustration: STANDING SENTRY OVER HIM] + +"No," said the Mayor, rubbing his eyes, which he could scarce believe +when he saw the goodly vessel riding at anchor. + +"She is named the Beauty," said the captain. + +"Hah!" exclaimed the Mayor, with a start. "And you, then, are Captain +Boldheart?" + +"The same." + +A pause ensued. The Mayor trembled. + +"Now, Mayor," said the captain, "choose. Help me to my Bride, or be +bombarded." + +The Mayor begged for two hours' grace, in which to make inquiries +respecting the young lady. Boldheart accorded him but one; and during +that one placed William Boozey sentry over him, with a drawn sword and +instructions to accompany him wherever he went, and to run him through +the body if he showed a sign of playing false. + +At the end of the hour, the Mayor re-appeared more dead than alive, +closely waited on by Boozey more alive than dead. + +[Illustration: "His lovely Bride came forth"] + +"Captain," said the Mayor, "I have ascertained that the young lady is +going to bathe. Even now she waits her turn for a machine. The tide is +low, though rising. I, in one of our town-boats, shall not be +suspected. When she comes forth in her bathing-dress into the shallow +water from behind the hood of the machine, my boat shall intercept her +and prevent her return. Do you the rest." + +"Mayor," returned Capt. Boldheart, "thou hast saved thy town." + +The captain then signalled his boat to take him off, and steering her +himself ordered her crew to row towards the bathing-ground, and there to +rest upon their oars. All happened as had been arranged. His lovely +bride came forth, the Mayor glided in behind her, she became confused +and had floated out of her depth, when, with one skilful touch of the +rudder and one quivering stroke from the boat's crew, her adoring +Boldheart held her in his strong arms. There her shrieks of terror were +changed to cries of joy. + +Before the Beauty could get under weigh, the hoisting of all the flags +in the town and harbour, and the ringing of all the bells, announced to +the brave Boldheart that he had nothing to fear. He therefore determined +to be married on the spot, and signalled for a clergyman and clerk, who +came off promptly in a sailing-boat named the Skylark. Another great +entertainment was then given on board the Beauty, in the midst of which +the Mayor was called out by a messenger. He returned with the news that +Government had sent down to know whether Captain Boldheart, in +acknowledgment of the great services he had done his country by being a +Pirate, would consent to be made a Lieutenant-Colonel. For himself he +would have spurned the worthless boon, but his Bride wished it and he +consented. + +Only one thing further happened before the good ship Family was +dismissed, with rich presents to all on board. It is painful to record +(but such is human nature in some cousins) that Captain Boldheart's +unmannerly cousin Tom was actually tied up to receive three dozen with a +rope's end "for cheekyness and making games," when Captain Boldheart's +lady begged for him and he was spared. 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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: 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 + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CAPTAIN BOLDHEART *** + + + + +Produced by Geetu Melwani and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + + +<h1>CAPTAIN BOLDHEART</h1> +<h4>BY</h4> +<h2>CHARLES DICKENS</h2> + +<h4>ILLUSTRATED BY +BEATRICE PEARSE</h4> + +<table class="split" summary="plate1"> +<tr> + <td class="top center" colspan="3"> +<img src="images/illus01.jpg" width="500" height="722" alt=""Invited them to Breakfast"" title="" /> + </td> +</tr> +<tr> + <td class="left"> </td> + <td valign="middle" class="caption">"Invited them to Breakfast"</td> + <td class="right"> </td> +</tr> +<tr> + <td class="bottom" colspan="3"> </td> +</tr> +</table> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>CAPTAIN BOLDHEART<br /> +& THE LATIN-GRAMMAR MASTER</h2> + +<h3>A HOLIDAY ROMANCE FROM<br /> +THE PEN OF LIEUT-COL. ROBIN REDFORTH<br /> +AGED 9.</h3> + +<h4>BY +CHARLES DICKENS</h4> + +<h5>LONDON: CONSTABLE AND CO. LTD.</h5> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h3>FOREWORD</h3> + + +<p>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 £1,000.</p> + +<p>"Holiday Romance" was published in +book form by Messrs Chapman & Hall +in 1874, with "Edwin Drood" and other +stories.</p> + +<p>For this reprint the text of the story as +it appeared in "All the Year Round" has +been followed.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h3>CAPTAIN BOLDHEART AND<br /> +THE LATIN-GRAMMAR MASTER</h3> + + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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 up some sandwiches in a paper +bag, made a bottle of Spanish liquorice-water, and +entered on a career of valour.</p> + +<p>It were tedious to follow Boldheart (for such was his +name) through the commencing stages of his history. +Suffice it that we find him bearing the rank of Captain +Boldheart, reclining in full uniform on a crimson<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span> +hearth-rug spread out upon the quarter-deck of his +schooner the Beauty, in the China Seas. It was a +lovely evening, and as his crew lay grouped about +him, he favoured them with the following melody:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">O landsmen are folly!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">O Pirates are jolly!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">O Diddleum Dolly,<br /></span> +<span class="i6">Di!<br /></span> +<span class="i2">(<i>Chorus</i>) Heave yo.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The soothing effect of these animated sounds floating +over the waters, as the common sailors united +their rough voices to take up the rich tones of Boldheart, +may be more easily conceived than described.</p> + +<p>It was under these circumstances that the lookout +at the masthead gave the word, "Whales!"</p> + +<p>All was now activity.</p> + +<p>"Where away?" cried Captain Boldheart, starting up.</p> + +<p>"On the larboard bow, sir," replied the fellow at +the masthead, touching his hat. For such was the +height of discipline on board of the Beauty, that even +at that height he was obliged to mind it or be shot +through the head.</p> + +<table class="split mb" summary="plate2"> +<tr> + <td class="top center" colspan="3"> +<img src="images/illus02.jpg" width="500" height="719" alt=""His crew lay grouped around him"" title="" /> + </td> +</tr> +<tr> + <td class="left"> </td> + <td valign="middle" class="caption">"His crew lay grouped around him"</td> + <td class="right"> </td> +</tr> +<tr> + <td class="bottom" colspan="3"> </td> +</tr> +</table> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span></p><p>"This adventure belongs to me," said Boldheart. +"Boy, my harpoon. Let no man follow;" and leaping +alone into his boat, the captain rowed with admirable +dexterity in the direction of the monster.</p> + +<p>All was now excitement.</p> + +<p>"He nears him!" said an elderly seaman, following +the captain through his spy-glass.</p> + +<p>"He strikes him!" said another seaman, a mere stripling, +but also with a spy-glass.</p> + +<p>"He tows him towards us!" said another seaman, a +man in the full vigour of life, but also with a spy-glass.</p> + +<p>In fact the captain was seen approaching, with the +huge bulk following. We will not dwell on the deafening +cries of "Boldheart! Boldheart!" with which he +was received, when, carelessly leaping on the quarter-deck, +he presented his prize to his men. They afterwards +made two thousand four hundred and seventeen +pound ten and sixpence by it.</p> + +<p>Ordering the sails to be braced up, the captain now +stood W.N.W. The Beauty flew rather than floated +over the dark blue waters. Nothing particular occurred +for a fortnight, except taking, with considerable<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span> +slaughter, four Spanish galleons, and a Snow from +South America, all richly laden. Inaction began to +tell upon the spirits of the men. Captain Boldheart +called all hands aft, and said:</p> + +<p>"My lads, I hear there are discontented ones among +ye. Let any such stand forth."</p> + +<p>After some murmuring, in which the expressions, +"Aye, aye, sir!" "Union Jack!" "Avast," "Starboard," +"Port," "Bowsprit," and similar indications +of a mutinous undercurrent, though subdued, were +audible, Bill Boozey, captain of the foretop, came out +from the rest. His form was that of a giant, but he +quailed under the captain's eye.</p> + +<p>"What are your wrongs?" said the captain.</p> + +<p>"Why, d'ye see, Captain Boldheart," replied the +towering mariner, "I've sailed man and boy for many +a year, but I never yet know'd the milk served out +for the ship's company's teas to be so sour as 'tis +aboard this craft."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 304px;"> +<img src="images/illus03.png" width="304" height="500" alt="The Rescue of William +Boozey." title="" /> +<span class="caption">The Rescue of William Boozey.</span> +</div> + +<p>At this moment the thrilling cry, "Man overboard!" +announced to the astonished crew that Boozey, in +stepping back, as the captain (in mere thoughtfulness)<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span> +laid his hand upon the faithful pocket-pistol which +he wore in his belt, had lost his balance, and was +struggling with the foaming tide.</p> + +<p>All was now stupefaction.</p> + +<p>But, with Captain Boldheart, to throw off his uniform +coat regardless of the various rich orders with +which it was decorated, and to plunge into the sea +after the drowning giant, was the work of a moment. +Maddening was the excitement when boats were +lowered; intense the joy when the captain was seen +holding up the drowning man with his teeth; deafening +the cheering when both were restored to the +main deck of the Beauty. And from the instant of his +changing his wet clothes for dry ones, Captain Boldheart +had no such devoted though humble friend as +William Boozey.</p> + +<p>Boldheart now pointed to the horizon, and called +the attention of his crew to the taper spars of a ship +lying snug in harbour under the guns of a fort.</p> + +<p>"She shall be ours at sunrise," said he. "Serve out +a double allowance of grog, and prepare for action."</p> + +<p>All was now preparation.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span></p> + +<p>When morning dawned after a sleepless night, it was +seen that the stranger was crowding on all sail to come +out of the harbour and offer battle. As the two ships +came nearer to each other, the stranger fired a gun +and hoisted Roman colours. Boldheart then perceived +her to be the Latin-Grammar-Master's bark. Such indeed +she was, and had been tacking about the world +in unavailing pursuit, from the time of his first taking +to a roving life.</p> + +<p>Boldheart now addressed his men, promising to +blow them up if he should feel convinced that their +reputation required it, and giving orders that the +Latin-Grammar-Master should be taken alive. He +then dismissed them to their quarters, and the fight +began with a broadside from The Beauty. She then +veered round, and poured in another. The Scorpion +(so was the bark of the Latin-Grammar-Master appropriately +called) was not slow to return her fire, and +a terrific cannonading ensued, in which the guns of +The Beauty did tremendous execution.</p> + +<p>The Latin-Grammar-Master was seen upon the +poop, in the midst of the smoke and fire, encouraging<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> +his men. To do him justice, he was no Craven, though +his white hat, his short grey trousers, and his long +snuff-coloured surtout reaching to his heels—the self-same +coat in which he had spited Boldheart—contrasted +most unfavourably with the brilliant uniform +of the latter. At this moment Boldheart, seizing a +pike and putting himself at the head of his men, gave +the word to board.</p> + +<p>A desperate conflict ensued in the hammock nettings—or +somewhere in about that direction—until +the Latin-Grammar-Master, having all his masts +gone, his hull and rigging shot through and through, +and seeing Boldheart slashing a path towards him, +hauled down his flag himself, gave up his sword to +Boldheart, and asked for quarter. Scarce had he been +put into the captain's boat, 'ere The Scorpion went +down with all on board.</p> + +<p>On Captain Boldheart's now assembling his men, a +circumstance occurred. He found it necessary with +one blow of his cutlass to kill the Cook, who, having +lost his brother in the late action, was making at the +Latin-Grammar-Master in an infuriated state, intent +on his destruction with a carving-knife.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span></p> + +<p>Captain Boldheart then turned to the Latin-Grammar-Master, +severely reproaching him with his perfidy, +and put it to his crew what they considered +that a master who spited a boy deserved?</p> + +<p>They answered with one voice, "Death."</p> + +<p>"It may be so," said the Captain; "but it shall never +be said that Boldheart stained his hour of triumph +with the blood of his enemy. Prepare the cutter."</p> + +<p>The cutter was immediately prepared.</p> + +<p>"Without taking your life," said the Captain, "I +must yet for ever deprive you of the power of spiting +other boys. I shall turn you adrift in this boat. You +will find in her two oars, a compass, a bottle of rum, +a small cask of water, a piece of pork, a bag of biscuit, +and my Latin grammar. Go! and spite the natives, if +you can find any."</p> + +<p>Deeply conscious of this bitter sarcasm, the unhappy +wretch was put into the cutter, and was soon left far +behind. He made no effort to row, but was seen lying +on his back with his legs up, when last made out by +the ship's telescopes.</p> + +<p>A stiff breeze now beginning to blow, Captain Bold<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span>heart +gave orders to keep her S.S.W., easing her a +little during the night by falling off a point or two +W. by W., or even by W.S., if she complained much. +He then retired for the night, having in truth much +need of repose. In addition to the fatigues he had undergone, +this brave officer had received sixteen +wounds in the engagement, but had not mentioned it.</p> + +<p>In the morning a white squall came on, and was +succeeded by other squalls of various colours. It +thundered and lightened heavily for six weeks. Hurricanes +then set in for two months. Waterspouts and +tornadoes followed. The oldest sailor on board—and +he was a very old one—had never seen such weather. +The Beauty lost all idea where she was, and the +carpenter reported six feet two of water in the hold. +Everybody fell senseless at the pumps every day.</p> + +<p>Provisions now ran very low. Our hero put the crew +on short allowance, and put himself on shorter allowance +than any man in the ship. But his spirit kept +him fat. In this extremity, the gratitude of Boozey, +the captain of the foretop whom our readers may remember, +was truly affecting. The loving though lowly<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span> +William repeatedly requested to be killed, and preserved +for the captain's table.</p> + +<p>We now approach a change in affairs.</p> + +<p>One day during a gleam of sunshine and when the +weather had moderated, the man at the masthead—too +weak now to touch his hat, besides its having been +blown away—called out,</p> + +<p>"Savages!"</p> + +<p>All was now expectation.</p> + +<p>Presently fifteen hundred canoes, each paddled by +twenty savages, were seen advancing in excellent +order. They were a light green colour (the Savages +were), and sang, with great energy, the following +strain:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Choo a choo a choo tooth.<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Muntch, muntch. Nycey!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Choo a choo a choo tooth.<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Muntch, muntch. Nyce!<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>As the shades of night were by this time closing in, +these expressions were supposed to embody this simple +people's views of the Evening Hymn. But it too soon<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span> +appeared that the song was a translation of "For +what we are going to receive," &c.</p> + +<p>The chief, imposingly decorated with feathers of +lively colours, and having the majestic appearance of +a fighting Parrot, no sooner understood (he understood +English perfectly) that the ship was The +Beauty, Captain Boldheart, than he fell upon his face +on the deck, and could not be persuaded to rise until +the captain had lifted him up, & told him he wouldn't +hurt him. All the rest of the savages also fell on their +faces with marks of terror, and had also to be lifted up +one by one. Thus the fame of the great Boldheart had +gone before him, even among these children of Nature.</p> + +<table class="split mb" summary="plate3"> +<tr> + <td class="top center" colspan="3"> +<img src="images/illus04.jpg" width="500" height="726" alt=""Arm-in-arm with the Chief"" title="" /> + </td> +</tr> +<tr> + <td class="left"> </td> + <td valign="middle" class="caption">"Arm-in-arm with the Chief"</td> + <td class="right"> </td> +</tr> +<tr> + <td class="bottom" colspan="3"> </td> +</tr> +</table> + + + + +<p>Turtles and oysters were now produced in astonishing +numbers, and on these and yams the people made +a hearty meal. After dinner the Chief told Captain +Boldheart that there was better feeding up at the +village, and that he would be glad to take him and his +officers there. Apprehensive of treachery, Boldheart +ordered his boat's crew to attend him completely +armed. And well were it for other commanders if +their precautions—but let us not anticipate.</p> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span></p><div class="figcenter" style="width: 396px;"> +<img src="images/illus05.png" width="396" height="500" alt=""Two Savages Floured Him +Before Putting Him To The Fire."" title="" /> +<span class="caption">"Two Savages Floured Him +Before Putting Him To The Fire."</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span></p> + +<p>When the canoes arrived at the beach, the darkness +of the night was illumined by the light of an immense +fire. Ordering his boat's crew (with the intrepid though +illiterate William at their head) to keep close and be +upon their guard, Boldheart bravely went on, arm-in-arm +with the Chief.</p> + +<p>But how to depict the captain's surprise when he +found a ring of Savages singing in chorus that barbarous +translation of "For what we are going to receive, +&c.," which has been given above, and dancing +hand-in-hand round the Latin-Grammar-Master, in a +hamper with his head shaved, while two savages floured +him, before putting him to the fire to be cooked!</p> + +<p>Boldheart now took counsel with his officers on the +course to be adopted. In the mean time, the miserable +captive never ceased begging pardon and imploring to +be delivered. On the generous Boldheart's proposal, it +was at length resolved that he should not be cooked, +but should be allowed to remain raw, on two conditions. +Namely,</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>1. That he should never under any circumstances +presume to teach any boy any thing any more.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span></p> + +<p>2. That, if taken back to England, he should pass +his life in travelling to find out boys who wanted +their exercises done, and should do their exercises for +those boys for nothing, and never say a word about +it.</p></div> + +<p>Drawing his sword from its sheath, Boldheart swore +him to these conditions on its shining blade. The +prisoner wept bitterly, and appeared acutely to feel +the errors of his past career.</p> + +<p>The captain then ordered his boat's crew to make +ready for a volley, and after firing to re-load quickly. +"And expect a score or two on ye to go head over +heels," murmured William Boozey; "for I'm a looking +at ye." With those words the derisive though +deadly William took a good aim.</p> + +<p>"Fire!"</p> + +<p>The ringing voice of Boldheart was lost in the report +of the guns and the screeching of the savages. Volley +after volley awakened the numerous echoes. Hundreds +of savages were killed, hundreds wounded, and thousands +ran howling into the woods. The Latin-Grammar-Master +had a spare night-cap lent him, and a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span> +longtail coat which he wore hind side before. He presented +a ludicrous though pitiable appearance, and +serve him right.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 260px;"> +<img src="images/illus06.png" width="260" height="500" alt=""The Latin-Grammar-Master +Had A Spare Nightcap Lent Him And A Longtail Coat +Which He Wore Hind Side Before."" title="" /> +<span class="caption">"The Latin-Grammar-Master +Had A Spare Nightcap Lent Him And A Longtail Coat +Which He Wore Hind Side Before."</span> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span></div> + + +<p>We now find Captain Boldheart, with this rescued +wretch on board, standing off for other islands. At +one of these, not a cannibal island, but a pork and +vegetable one, he married (only in fun on his part) +the King's daughter. Here he rested some time, receiving +from the natives great quantities of precious stones, +gold dust, elephants' teeth, and sandal wood, and +getting very rich. This, too, though he almost every +day made presents of enormous value to his men.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 267px;"> +<img src="images/illus07.png" width="267" height="500" alt=""Ere The Sun Went +Down Full Many A Hornpipe Had Been Danced ... By The +Uncouth Though Agile William."" title="" /> +<span class="caption">"Ere The Sun Went Down Full Many A +Hornpipe Had Been Danced ... By The Uncouth Though Agile William."</span> +</div> + + + +<p>The ship being at length as full as she could hold +of all sorts of valuable things, Boldheart gave orders +to weigh the anchor, and turn the Beauty's head +towards England. These orders were obeyed with +three cheers, and ere the sun went down full many +a hornpipe had been danced on deck by the uncouth +though agile William.</p> + +<p>We next find Captain Boldheart about three leagues +off Madeira, surveying through his spy-glass a stranger +of suspicious appearance making sail towards him.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span> +On his firing a gun ahead of her to bring her to, she +ran up a flag, which he instantly recognized as the +flag from the mast in the back-garden at home.</p> + + +<table class="split mb" summary="plate4"> +<tr> + <td class="top center" colspan="3"> +<img src="images/illus08.jpg" width="500" height="715" alt=""Married the Chief's daughter"" title="" /> + </td> +</tr> +<tr> + <td class="left"> </td> + <td valign="middle" class="caption">"Married the Chief's daughter"</td> + <td class="right"> </td> +</tr> +<tr> + <td class="bottom" colspan="3"> </td> +</tr> +</table> + + + + +<p>Inferring from this, that his father had put to sea to +seek his long-lost son, the captain sent his own boat +on board the stranger, to inquire if this was so, and +if so, whether his father's intentions were strictly +honourable. The boat came back with a present of +greens and fresh meat, and reported that the stranger +was The Family of twelve hundred tons, and had +not only the captain's father on board, but also his +mother, with the majority of his aunts and uncles, +and all his cousins. It was further reported to Boldheart +that the whole of these relations had expressed +themselves in a becoming manner, and were anxious +to embrace him and thank him for the glorious credit +he had done them. Boldheart at once invited them +to breakfast next morning on board the Beauty, and +gave orders for a brilliant ball that should last all day.</p> + +<p>It was in the course of the night that the captain +discovered the hopelessness of reclaiming the Latin-Grammar-Master. +That thankless traitor was found<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> +out, as the two ships lay near each other, communicating +with The Family by signals, and offering +to give up Boldheart. He was hanged at the yard-arm +the first thing in the morning, after having it +impressively pointed out to him by Boldheart that +this was what spiters came to.</p> + +<p>The meeting between the captain and his parents +was attended with tears. His uncles and aunts would +have attended their meeting with tears too, but he +wasn't going to stand that. His cousins were very much +astonished by the size of his ship and the discipline +of his men, and were greatly overcome by the +splendour of his uniform. He kindly conducted them +round the vessel, and pointed out every thing worthy +of notice. He also fired his hundred guns, and found +it amusing to witness their alarm.</p> + +<p>The entertainment surpassed everything ever seen +on board ship, and lasted from ten in the morning +until seven the next morning. Only one disagreeable +incident occurred. Captain Boldheart found himself +obliged to put his cousin Tom in irons, for being disrespectful. +On the boy's promising amendment, how<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span>ever, +he was humanely released after a few hours' close +confinement.</p> + +<p>Boldheart now took his mother down into the great +cabin, and asked after the young lady with whom, it +was well known to the world, he was in love. His +mother replied that the object of his affections was +then at school at Margate, for the benefit of sea-bathing +(it was the month of September), but that she +feared the young lady's friends were still opposed to +the union. Boldheart at once resolved, if necessary, to +bombard the town.</p> + +<p>Taking the command of his ship with this intention, +and putting all but fighting men on board The +Family, with orders to that vessel to keep in company, +Boldheart soon anchored in Margate Roads. +Here he went ashore well-armed, and attended by +his boat's crew (at their head the faithful though ferocious +William), and demanded to see the Mayor, who +came out of his office.</p> + +<p>"Dost know the name of yon ship, Mayor?" asked +Boldheart fiercely.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus09.png" width="500" height="508" alt=""Dost Know The Name Of Yon Ship, Mayor?"" title="" /> +<span class="caption">"Dost Know The Name Of Yon Ship, Mayor?"</span> +</div> + + +<p>"No," said the Mayor, rubbing his eyes, which he<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span> +could scarce believe when he saw the goodly vessel +riding at anchor.</p> + +<p>"She is named the Beauty," said the captain.</p> + +<p>"Hah!" exclaimed the Mayor, with a start. "And +you, then, are Captain Boldheart?"</p> + +<p>"The same."</p> + +<p>A pause ensued. The Mayor trembled.</p> + +<p>"Now, Mayor," said the captain, "choose. Help me +to my Bride, or be bombarded."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 301px;"> +<img src="images/illus10.png" width="301" height="500" alt="Standing Sentry Over Him" title="" /> +<span class="caption">Standing Sentry Over Him</span> +</div> + + +<p>The Mayor begged for two hours' grace, in which +to make inquiries respecting the young lady. Boldheart +accorded him but one; and during that one +placed William Boozey sentry over him, with a drawn +sword and instructions to accompany him wherever +he went, and to run him through the body if he +showed a sign of playing false.</p> + +<p>At the end of the hour, the Mayor re-appeared more +dead than alive, closely waited on by Boozey more +alive than dead.</p> + +<table class="split mb" summary="plate5"> +<tr> + <td class="top center" colspan="3"> +<img src="images/illus11.jpg" width="500" height="731" alt=""His lovely Bride came forth"" title="" /> + </td> +</tr> +<tr> + <td class="left"> </td> + <td valign="middle" class="caption">"His lovely Bride came forth"</td> + <td class="right"> </td> +</tr> +<tr> + <td class="bottom" colspan="3"> </td> +</tr> +</table> + + +<p>"Captain," said the Mayor, "I have ascertained that +the young lady is going to bathe. Even now she waits +her turn for a machine. The tide is low, though rising.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span> +I, in one of our town-boats, shall not be suspected. +When she comes forth in her bathing-dress into the +shallow water from behind the hood of the machine, +my boat shall intercept her and prevent her return. +Do you the rest."</p> + +<p>"Mayor," returned Capt. Boldheart, "thou hast +saved thy town."</p> + +<p>The captain then signalled his boat to take him off, +and steering her himself ordered her crew to row +towards the bathing-ground, and there to rest upon +their oars. All happened as had been arranged. His +lovely bride came forth, the Mayor glided in behind +her, she became confused and had floated out of her +depth, when, with one skilful touch of the rudder +and one quivering stroke from the boat's crew, her +adoring Boldheart held her in his strong arms. There +her shrieks of terror were changed to cries of joy.</p> + +<p>Before the Beauty could get under weigh, the +hoisting of all the flags in the town and harbour, and +the ringing of all the bells, announced to the brave +Boldheart that he had nothing to fear. He therefore +determined to be married on the spot, and signalled<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span> +for a clergyman and clerk, who came off promptly +in a sailing-boat named the Skylark. Another great +entertainment was then given on board the Beauty, +in the midst of which the Mayor was called out by a +messenger. He returned with the news that Government +had sent down to know whether Captain Boldheart, +in acknowledgment of the great services he +had done his country by being a Pirate, would consent +to be made a Lieutenant-Colonel. For himself +he would have spurned the worthless boon, but his +Bride wished it and he consented.</p> + +<p>Only one thing further happened before the good +ship Family was dismissed, with rich presents to all +on board. It is painful to record (but such is human +nature in some cousins) that Captain Boldheart's unmannerly +cousin Tom was actually tied up to receive +three dozen with a rope's end "for cheekyness and +making games," when Captain Boldheart's lady begged +for him and he was spared. The Beauty then refitted, +and the Captain and his Bride departed for the +Indian Ocean to enjoy themselves for evermore.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 377px;"> +<img src="images/illus12.png" width="377" height="500" alt=""Captain Boldheart's +Lady Begged For Him And He Was Spared."" title="" /> +<span class="caption">"Captain Boldheart's +Lady Begged For Him And He Was Spared."</span><br /><br /><br /><br /></div> + + +<h3>THE END.</h3> + + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + + +<h3>THE ORANGE TREE SERIES<br /> +OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS</h3> + +<h5>FULLY ILLUSTRATED IN COLOUR, 1s. net. Foolscap 4to, boards</h5> + + +<div class="list"> +<span class="in2">1. THE STORY OF RICHARD DOUBLEDICK. By Charles Dickens. With +illustrations by W. B. Wollen, R.I., R.O.I.<br /><br /></span> +<span class="in2">2. THE MAGIC FISHBONE. By Charles Dickens. With illustrations by S. + Beatrice Pearse.<br /><br /></span> +<span class="in2">3. THE TRIAL OF WILLIAM TINKLING. By Charles Dickens. With + illustrations by S. Beatrice Pearse.<br /><br /></span> + +<span class="in2">4. CAPTAIN BOLDHEART AND THE LATIN-GRAMMAR MASTER. By Charles + Dickens. With illustrations by S. Beatrice Pearse.<br /><br /></span> +</div> +<h4>THE WONDER BOOK</h4> + +<h5>By Nathaniel Hawthorne. With Coloured Illustrations by Patten + Wilson.</h5> +<div class="list"> +<span class="in2">5. THE GORGON'S HEAD<br /><br /></span> +<span class="in2">6. THE GOLDEN TOUCH</span> +</div> +<h6><i>The above are ready. The following are in active preparation.</i></h6> +<div class="list"> +<span class="in2">7. THE PARADISE OF CHILDREN<br /><br /></span> +<span class="in2">8. THE THREE GOLDEN APPLES<br /><br /></span> + +<span class="in2">9. THE MIRACULOUS PITCHER<br /><br /></span> +<span class="in2">10. THE CHIMAERA<br /><br /></span> +</div> + +<h4>TANGLEWOOD TALES</h4> + +<h5>By Nathaniel Hawthorne. With Coloured Illustrations by Patten + Wilson.</h5> +<div class="list"> +<span class="in2">11. THE MINOTAUR<br /><br /></span> +<span class="in2">12. THE PYGMIES<br /><br /></span> +<span class="in2">13. THE DRAGON'S TEETH<br /><br /></span> +<span class="in2">14. CIRCE'S PALACE<br /><br /></span> +<span class="in2">15. THE POMEGRANATE SEEDS<br /><br /></span> +<span class="in2">16. THE GOLDEN FLEECE<br /><br /></span> +</div> + + +<h4>LONDON: CONSTABLE & COMPANY, LIMITED</h4> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Captain Boldheart & the Latin-Grammar +Master, by Charles Dickens + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CAPTAIN BOLDHEART *** + +***** This file should be named 23765-h.htm or 23765-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/7/6/23765/ + +Produced by Geetu Melwani and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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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: 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 + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CAPTAIN BOLDHEART *** + + + + +Produced by Geetu Melwani and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + + + + +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 +up some sandwiches in a paper bag, made a bottle of Spanish +liquorice-water, and entered on a career of valour. + +It were tedious to follow Boldheart (for such was his name) through the +commencing stages of his history. Suffice it that we find him bearing +the rank of Captain Boldheart, reclining in full uniform on a crimson +hearth-rug spread out upon the quarter-deck of his schooner the Beauty, +in the China Seas. It was a lovely evening, and as his crew lay grouped +about him, he favoured them with the following melody: + + O landsmen are folly! + O Pirates are jolly! + O Diddleum Dolly, + Di! + (_Chorus_) Heave yo. + +The soothing effect of these animated sounds floating over the waters, +as the common sailors united their rough voices to take up the rich +tones of Boldheart, may be more easily conceived than described. + +It was under these circumstances that the lookout at the masthead gave +the word, "Whales!" + +All was now activity. + +"Where away?" cried Captain Boldheart, starting up. + +"On the larboard bow, sir," replied the fellow at the masthead, touching +his hat. For such was the height of discipline on board of the Beauty, +that even at that height he was obliged to mind it or be shot through +the head. + +[Illustration: "His crew lay grouped around him"] + +"This adventure belongs to me," said Boldheart. "Boy, my harpoon. Let +no man follow;" and leaping alone into his boat, the captain rowed with +admirable dexterity in the direction of the monster. + +All was now excitement. + +"He nears him!" said an elderly seaman, following the captain through +his spy-glass. + +"He strikes him!" said another seaman, a mere stripling, but also with a +spy-glass. + +"He tows him towards us!" said another seaman, a man in the full vigour +of life, but also with a spy-glass. + +In fact the captain was seen approaching, with the huge bulk following. +We will not dwell on the deafening cries of "Boldheart! Boldheart!" with +which he was received, when, carelessly leaping on the quarter-deck, he +presented his prize to his men. They afterwards made two thousand four +hundred and seventeen pound ten and sixpence by it. + +Ordering the sails to be braced up, the captain now stood W.N.W. The +Beauty flew rather than floated over the dark blue waters. Nothing +particular occurred for a fortnight, except taking, with considerable +slaughter, four Spanish galleons, and a Snow from South America, all +richly laden. Inaction began to tell upon the spirits of the men. +Captain Boldheart called all hands aft, and said: + +"My lads, I hear there are discontented ones among ye. Let any such +stand forth." + +After some murmuring, in which the expressions, "Aye, aye, sir!" "Union +Jack!" "Avast," "Starboard," "Port," "Bowsprit," and similar indications +of a mutinous undercurrent, though subdued, were audible, Bill Boozey, +captain of the foretop, came out from the rest. His form was that of a +giant, but he quailed under the captain's eye. + +"What are your wrongs?" said the captain. + +"Why, d'ye see, Captain Boldheart," replied the towering mariner, "I've +sailed man and boy for many a year, but I never yet know'd the milk +served out for the ship's company's teas to be so sour as 'tis aboard +this craft." + +[Illustration: THE RESCUE OF WILLIAM BOOZEY.] + +At this moment the thrilling cry, "Man overboard!" announced to the +astonished crew that Boozey, in stepping back, as the captain (in mere +thoughtfulness) laid his hand upon the faithful pocket-pistol which he +wore in his belt, had lost his balance, and was struggling with the +foaming tide. + +All was now stupefaction. + +But, with Captain Boldheart, to throw off his uniform coat regardless of +the various rich orders with which it was decorated, and to plunge into +the sea after the drowning giant, was the work of a moment. Maddening +was the excitement when boats were lowered; intense the joy when the +captain was seen holding up the drowning man with his teeth; deafening +the cheering when both were restored to the main deck of the Beauty. And +from the instant of his changing his wet clothes for dry ones, Captain +Boldheart had no such devoted though humble friend as William Boozey. + +Boldheart now pointed to the horizon, and called the attention of his +crew to the taper spars of a ship lying snug in harbour under the guns +of a fort. + +"She shall be ours at sunrise," said he. "Serve out a double allowance +of grog, and prepare for action." + +All was now preparation. + +When morning dawned after a sleepless night, it was seen that the +stranger was crowding on all sail to come out of the harbour and offer +battle. As the two ships came nearer to each other, the stranger fired a +gun and hoisted Roman colours. Boldheart then perceived her to be the +Latin-Grammar-Master's bark. Such indeed she was, and had been tacking +about the world in unavailing pursuit, from the time of his first taking +to a roving life. + +Boldheart now addressed his men, promising to blow them up if he should +feel convinced that their reputation required it, and giving orders that +the Latin-Grammar-Master should be taken alive. He then dismissed them +to their quarters, and the fight began with a broadside from The Beauty. +She then veered round, and poured in another. The Scorpion (so was the +bark of the Latin-Grammar-Master appropriately called) was not slow to +return her fire, and a terrific cannonading ensued, in which the guns of +The Beauty did tremendous execution. + +The Latin-Grammar-Master was seen upon the poop, in the midst of the +smoke and fire, encouraging his men. To do him justice, he was no +Craven, though his white hat, his short grey trousers, and his long +snuff-coloured surtout reaching to his heels--the self-same coat in +which he had spited Boldheart--contrasted most unfavourably with the +brilliant uniform of the latter. At this moment Boldheart, seizing a +pike and putting himself at the head of his men, gave the word to board. + +A desperate conflict ensued in the hammock nettings--or somewhere in +about that direction--until the Latin-Grammar-Master, having all his +masts gone, his hull and rigging shot through and through, and seeing +Boldheart slashing a path towards him, hauled down his flag himself, +gave up his sword to Boldheart, and asked for quarter. Scarce had he +been put into the captain's boat, 'ere The Scorpion went down with all +on board. + +On Captain Boldheart's now assembling his men, a circumstance occurred. +He found it necessary with one blow of his cutlass to kill the Cook, +who, having lost his brother in the late action, was making at the +Latin-Grammar-Master in an infuriated state, intent on his destruction +with a carving-knife. + +Captain Boldheart then turned to the Latin-Grammar-Master, severely +reproaching him with his perfidy, and put it to his crew what they +considered that a master who spited a boy deserved? + +They answered with one voice, "Death." + +"It may be so," said the Captain; "but it shall never be said that +Boldheart stained his hour of triumph with the blood of his enemy. +Prepare the cutter." + +The cutter was immediately prepared. + +"Without taking your life," said the Captain, "I must yet for ever +deprive you of the power of spiting other boys. I shall turn you adrift +in this boat. You will find in her two oars, a compass, a bottle of rum, +a small cask of water, a piece of pork, a bag of biscuit, and my Latin +grammar. Go! and spite the natives, if you can find any." + +Deeply conscious of this bitter sarcasm, the unhappy wretch was put into +the cutter, and was soon left far behind. He made no effort to row, but +was seen lying on his back with his legs up, when last made out by the +ship's telescopes. + +A stiff breeze now beginning to blow, Captain Boldheart gave orders to +keep her S.S.W., easing her a little during the night by falling off a +point or two W. by W., or even by W.S., if she complained much. He then +retired for the night, having in truth much need of repose. In addition +to the fatigues he had undergone, this brave officer had received +sixteen wounds in the engagement, but had not mentioned it. + +In the morning a white squall came on, and was succeeded by other +squalls of various colours. It thundered and lightened heavily for six +weeks. Hurricanes then set in for two months. Waterspouts and tornadoes +followed. The oldest sailor on board--and he was a very old one--had +never seen such weather. The Beauty lost all idea where she was, and the +carpenter reported six feet two of water in the hold. Everybody fell +senseless at the pumps every day. + +Provisions now ran very low. Our hero put the crew on short allowance, +and put himself on shorter allowance than any man in the ship. But his +spirit kept him fat. In this extremity, the gratitude of Boozey, the +captain of the foretop whom our readers may remember, was truly +affecting. The loving though lowly William repeatedly requested to be +killed, and preserved for the captain's table. + +We now approach a change in affairs. + +One day during a gleam of sunshine and when the weather had moderated, +the man at the masthead--too weak now to touch his hat, besides its +having been blown away--called out, + +"Savages!" + +All was now expectation. + +Presently fifteen hundred canoes, each paddled by twenty savages, were +seen advancing in excellent order. They were a light green colour (the +Savages were), and sang, with great energy, the following strain: + + Choo a choo a choo tooth. + Muntch, muntch. Nycey! + Choo a choo a choo tooth. + Muntch, muntch. Nyce! + +As the shades of night were by this time closing in, these expressions +were supposed to embody this simple people's views of the Evening Hymn. +But it too soon appeared that the song was a translation of "For what +we are going to receive," &c. + +The chief, imposingly decorated with feathers of lively colours, and +having the majestic appearance of a fighting Parrot, no sooner +understood (he understood English perfectly) that the ship was The +Beauty, Captain Boldheart, than he fell upon his face on the deck, and +could not be persuaded to rise until the captain had lifted him up, & +told him he wouldn't hurt him. All the rest of the savages also fell on +their faces with marks of terror, and had also to be lifted up one by +one. Thus the fame of the great Boldheart had gone before him, even +among these children of Nature. + +Turtles and oysters were now produced in astonishing numbers, and on +these and yams the people made a hearty meal. After dinner the Chief +told Captain Boldheart that there was better feeding up at the village, +and that he would be glad to take him and his officers there. +Apprehensive of treachery, Boldheart ordered his boat's crew to attend +him completely armed. And well were it for other commanders if their +precautions--but let us not anticipate. + +[Illustration: "Arm-in-arm with the Chief"] + +[Illustration: "TWO SAVAGES FLOURED HIM BEFORE PUTTING HIM TO THE +FIRE."] + +When the canoes arrived at the beach, the darkness of the night was +illumined by the light of an immense fire. Ordering his boat's crew +(with the intrepid though illiterate William at their head) to keep +close and be upon their guard, Boldheart bravely went on, arm-in-arm +with the Chief. + +But how to depict the captain's surprise when he found a ring of Savages +singing in chorus that barbarous translation of "For what we are going +to receive, &c.," which has been given above, and dancing hand-in-hand +round the Latin-Grammar-Master, in a hamper with his head shaved, while +two savages floured him, before putting him to the fire to be cooked! + +Boldheart now took counsel with his officers on the course to be +adopted. In the mean time, the miserable captive never ceased begging +pardon and imploring to be delivered. On the generous Boldheart's +proposal, it was at length resolved that he should not be cooked, but +should be allowed to remain raw, on two conditions. Namely, + + 1. That he should never under any circumstances presume to teach + any boy any thing any more. + + 2. That, if taken back to England, he should pass his life in + travelling to find out boys who wanted their exercises done, and + should do their exercises for those boys for nothing, and never say + a word about it. + +Drawing his sword from its sheath, Boldheart swore him to these +conditions on its shining blade. The prisoner wept bitterly, and +appeared acutely to feel the errors of his past career. + +The captain then ordered his boat's crew to make ready for a volley, and +after firing to re-load quickly. "And expect a score or two on ye to go +head over heels," murmured William Boozey; "for I'm a looking at ye." +With those words the derisive though deadly William took a good aim. + +"Fire!" + +The ringing voice of Boldheart was lost in the report of the guns and +the screeching of the savages. Volley after volley awakened the numerous +echoes. Hundreds of savages were killed, hundreds wounded, and thousands +ran howling into the woods. The Latin-Grammar-Master had a spare +night-cap lent him, and a longtail coat which he wore hind side +before. He presented a ludicrous though pitiable appearance, and serve +him right. + +[Illustration: "THE LATIN-GRAMMAR-MASTER HAD A SPARE NIGHTCAP LENT HIM +AND A LONGTAIL COAT WHICH HE WORE HIND SIDE BEFORE."] + +[Illustration: "ERE THE SUN WENT DOWN FULL MANY A HORNPIPE HAD BEEN +DANCED ... BY THE UNCOUTH THOUGH AGILE WILLIAM."] + +We now find Captain Boldheart, with this rescued wretch on board, +standing off for other islands. At one of these, not a cannibal island, +but a pork and vegetable one, he married (only in fun on his part) the +King's daughter. Here he rested some time, receiving from the natives +great quantities of precious stones, gold dust, elephants' teeth, and +sandal wood, and getting very rich. This, too, though he almost every +day made presents of enormous value to his men. + +The ship being at length as full as she could hold of all sorts of +valuable things, Boldheart gave orders to weigh the anchor, and turn the +Beauty's head towards England. These orders were obeyed with three +cheers, and ere the sun went down full many a hornpipe had been danced +on deck by the uncouth though agile William. + +We next find Captain Boldheart about three leagues off Madeira, +surveying through his spy-glass a stranger of suspicious appearance +making sail towards him. On his firing a gun ahead of her to bring +her to, she ran up a flag, which he instantly recognized as the flag +from the mast in the back-garden at home. + +[Illustration: "Married the Chief's daughter"] + +Inferring from this, that his father had put to sea to seek his +long-lost son, the captain sent his own boat on board the stranger, to +inquire if this was so, and if so, whether his father's intentions were +strictly honourable. The boat came back with a present of greens and +fresh meat, and reported that the stranger was The Family of twelve +hundred tons, and had not only the captain's father on board, but also +his mother, with the majority of his aunts and uncles, and all his +cousins. It was further reported to Boldheart that the whole of these +relations had expressed themselves in a becoming manner, and were +anxious to embrace him and thank him for the glorious credit he had done +them. Boldheart at once invited them to breakfast next morning on board +the Beauty, and gave orders for a brilliant ball that should last all +day. + +It was in the course of the night that the captain discovered the +hopelessness of reclaiming the Latin-Grammar-Master. That thankless +traitor was found out, as the two ships lay near each other, +communicating with The Family by signals, and offering to give up +Boldheart. He was hanged at the yard-arm the first thing in the morning, +after having it impressively pointed out to him by Boldheart that this +was what spiters came to. + +The meeting between the captain and his parents was attended with tears. +His uncles and aunts would have attended their meeting with tears too, +but he wasn't going to stand that. His cousins were very much astonished +by the size of his ship and the discipline of his men, and were greatly +overcome by the splendour of his uniform. He kindly conducted them round +the vessel, and pointed out every thing worthy of notice. He also fired +his hundred guns, and found it amusing to witness their alarm. + +The entertainment surpassed everything ever seen on board ship, and +lasted from ten in the morning until seven the next morning. Only one +disagreeable incident occurred. Captain Boldheart found himself obliged +to put his cousin Tom in irons, for being disrespectful. On the boy's +promising amendment, however, he was humanely released after a few +hours' close confinement. + +Boldheart now took his mother down into the great cabin, and asked after +the young lady with whom, it was well known to the world, he was in +love. His mother replied that the object of his affections was then at +school at Margate, for the benefit of sea-bathing (it was the month of +September), but that she feared the young lady's friends were still +opposed to the union. Boldheart at once resolved, if necessary, to +bombard the town. + +Taking the command of his ship with this intention, and putting all but +fighting men on board The Family, with orders to that vessel to keep in +company, Boldheart soon anchored in Margate Roads. Here he went ashore +well-armed, and attended by his boat's crew (at their head the faithful +though ferocious William), and demanded to see the Mayor, who came out +of his office. + +"Dost know the name of yon ship, Mayor?" asked Boldheart fiercely. + +[Illustration: "DOST KNOW THE NAME OF YON SHIP, MAYOR?"] + +[Illustration: STANDING SENTRY OVER HIM] + +"No," said the Mayor, rubbing his eyes, which he could scarce believe +when he saw the goodly vessel riding at anchor. + +"She is named the Beauty," said the captain. + +"Hah!" exclaimed the Mayor, with a start. "And you, then, are Captain +Boldheart?" + +"The same." + +A pause ensued. The Mayor trembled. + +"Now, Mayor," said the captain, "choose. Help me to my Bride, or be +bombarded." + +The Mayor begged for two hours' grace, in which to make inquiries +respecting the young lady. Boldheart accorded him but one; and during +that one placed William Boozey sentry over him, with a drawn sword and +instructions to accompany him wherever he went, and to run him through +the body if he showed a sign of playing false. + +At the end of the hour, the Mayor re-appeared more dead than alive, +closely waited on by Boozey more alive than dead. + +[Illustration: "His lovely Bride came forth"] + +"Captain," said the Mayor, "I have ascertained that the young lady is +going to bathe. Even now she waits her turn for a machine. The tide is +low, though rising. I, in one of our town-boats, shall not be +suspected. When she comes forth in her bathing-dress into the shallow +water from behind the hood of the machine, my boat shall intercept her +and prevent her return. Do you the rest." + +"Mayor," returned Capt. Boldheart, "thou hast saved thy town." + +The captain then signalled his boat to take him off, and steering her +himself ordered her crew to row towards the bathing-ground, and there to +rest upon their oars. All happened as had been arranged. His lovely +bride came forth, the Mayor glided in behind her, she became confused +and had floated out of her depth, when, with one skilful touch of the +rudder and one quivering stroke from the boat's crew, her adoring +Boldheart held her in his strong arms. There her shrieks of terror were +changed to cries of joy. + +Before the Beauty could get under weigh, the hoisting of all the flags +in the town and harbour, and the ringing of all the bells, announced to +the brave Boldheart that he had nothing to fear. He therefore determined +to be married on the spot, and signalled for a clergyman and clerk, who +came off promptly in a sailing-boat named the Skylark. Another great +entertainment was then given on board the Beauty, in the midst of which +the Mayor was called out by a messenger. He returned with the news that +Government had sent down to know whether Captain Boldheart, in +acknowledgment of the great services he had done his country by being a +Pirate, would consent to be made a Lieutenant-Colonel. For himself he +would have spurned the worthless boon, but his Bride wished it and he +consented. + +Only one thing further happened before the good ship Family was +dismissed, with rich presents to all on board. It is painful to record +(but such is human nature in some cousins) that Captain Boldheart's +unmannerly cousin Tom was actually tied up to receive three dozen with a +rope's end "for cheekyness and making games," when Captain Boldheart's +lady begged for him and he was spared. The Beauty then refitted, and the +Captain and his Bride departed for the Indian Ocean to enjoy themselves +for evermore. + +[Illustration: "CAPTAIN BOLDHEART'S LADY BEGGED FOR HIM AND HE WAS +SPARED."] + + +THE END. + + + * * * * * + + + THE ORANGE TREE SERIES + OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS + +FULLY ILLUSTRATED IN COLOUR, 1s. net. Foolscap 4to, boards + + * * * * * + +1. THE STORY OF RICHARD DOUBLEDICK. By Charles Dickens. With +illustrations by W. B. Wollen, R.I., R.O.I. + +2. THE MAGIC FISHBONE. By Charles Dickens. With illustrations by S. +Beatrice Pearse. + +3. THE TRIAL OF WILLIAM TINKLING. By Charles Dickens. With illustrations +by S. Beatrice Pearse. + +4. CAPTAIN BOLDHEART AND THE LATIN-GRAMMAR MASTER. By Charles Dickens. +With illustrations by S. Beatrice Pearse. + + + THE WONDER BOOK + +By Nathaniel Hawthorne. With Coloured Illustrations by Patten Wilson. + +5. THE GORGON'S HEAD +6. THE GOLDEN TOUCH + +_The above are ready. The following are in active preparation._ + + 7. 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