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diff --git a/23765.txt b/23765.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b188de4 --- /dev/null +++ b/23765.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: 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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