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diff --git a/24783.txt b/24783.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7526e0e --- /dev/null +++ b/24783.txt @@ -0,0 +1,859 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Pirate's Pocket Book, by Dion Clayton +Calthrop + + +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: The Pirate's Pocket Book + + +Author: Dion Clayton Calthrop + + + +Release Date: March 8, 2008 [eBook #24783] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PIRATE'S POCKET BOOK*** + + +E-text prepared by Emmy and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed +Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) + + + +Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this + file which includes the original illustrations. + See 24783-h.htm or 24783-h.zip: + (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/4/7/8/24783/24783-h/24783-h.htm) + or + (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/4/7/8/24783/24783-h.zip) + + + + + +THE PIRATE'S POCKET BOOK + +by + +DION CLAYTON CALTHROP + + + + + + + +[Illustration] + + +Sisley's Ltd. +Makers Of Beautiful Books +London + + + + + To + GEORGE, + BARBARA + and + JAMES + BYAM SHAW + + _with my love_. 1907. + + + + +THE +PIRATE'S POCKET BOOK + +THIS book you hold in your hand belonged once to a very celebrated +Pirate. + +He was so celebrated that the newspapers--of that time--always said nice +things about him, and always knew what he was doing before he did +himself. As he was a very truthful man, he did the things, so that the +editors might not get into trouble. + +Which was kind. + +By which I do not mean that he was always kind. + +[Illustration: MAP of Tomb's Island (_very exciting_).] + +Nobody knew how old he was. Some said that he was so old that he had +never been born. + +Some said that he must be young or he could not be so wicked. + +So you see there were two opinions about him. + +There are always two opinions about a celebrated man. + +If you look at him you will see that he dressed to please himself. + +[Illustration: Supposed birthplace of Tomb family. Family of Bone still +living in the cottage.] + +He wore a nice hat--but you have noticed that; and he had a roving eye. + +By which I do not mean his eye walked about like this, but that he +looked around him a good deal. + +[Illustration] + +If you are thinking of becoming a Pirate--and there is plenty of room at +the top of every profession--you will have to look about a good deal, +because you will have enemies. + +[Illustration: _He dreams of other worlds to conquer._] + +Tom Tomb--that was not his name, but it was the way he signed other +people's cheques, and your father and mother will tell you that this is +a very mean trick--lived partly on an island, and partly on board the +_Inky Murk_. + +[Illustration] + +You will understand that I mean not with one foot on the island and one +on the boat, but sometimes on one and sometimes on the other. + +[Illustration] + +Now T. T. never robbed the poor. + +[Illustration] + +Because it was not worth his while. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +But any person who looked rich suffered accordingly. + +[Illustration] + +The _Inky Murk_ was the name of his boat. You can make one curiously +like it with two chairs and a rug. + +[Illustration] + +One day Tomb captured a young fellow--a very handsome lad too. + +It was off a certain island where Tom Tomb had a neat cottage, in the +garden of which he grew flowers for a pastime. + +[Illustration] + +Because, of course, he needed a little time to himself in between his +tremendous fights. + +[Illustration] + +The young fellow was stealing flowers. + +He was surprised to see Captain Tomb. + +When I say he was surprised, you will see what I mean by the picture. + +[Illustration] + +"What cinderadustmat do you mean," yelled Tomb, in a voice like a +railway accident, "by stealing my flowers?" + +"I thought they were wild," said the young fellow, taking his pipe from +his mouth. + +[Illustration] + +"Wild!" shrieked Tomb. "Wild!!" he bawled. + +This last yell was so powerful that three of his buttons flew off his +coat. + +The young fellow caught them neatly in his left hand, and presented them +to the Captain on bended knee. + +[Illustration] + +The neat act saved the lad's life. + +"An honour to serve you, Captain Thomas Tomb," said he. + +[Illustration] + +"You know me?" asked Tomb, smiling upon the boy. + +[Illustration] + +"I thought it must be your face," said the lad boldly. + +He was about to speak again, had not Tomb silenced him with a gesture. +He liked the lad. + +Had he spoken again, Tomb would have silenced him for ever. + +He was about to say that any other man with a face like that would have +died long ago, from wounded vanity. + +[Illustration: From a very rare old print.] + +"Would you care to be a Pirate, my youthful fellow?" said Tomb. + +[Illustration] + +The lad hesitated. "My father . . ." he began. + +"Dead," said Tomb, in a hollow voice. + +"My mother . . ." + +"Dead," Tomb replied, in a monotonous whisper. + +"My brother and sister . . ." + +Tomb raised a sorrowful hand: his heart was touched. + +"My family . . ." said the young man in despair. + +"My poor boy," said Tomb, with tears in his eyes, "my poor, dear fellow, +I killed them all not an hour ago." + +[Illustration] + +"Then my sweetheart would object to my becoming a Pirate," said the lad, +weeping. + +"Enough," said Tomb; "you are called from henceforth Dingy David. Now to +sea!" + +[Illustration] + +For ten years they plundered upon the Spanish Main, until they acquired +so much money that Bilge Island, Tomb's business address, smelt of +hoarded gold, and the beach glittered with jewels. + +[Illustration] + +Then both Tomb and David--I am keeping the secret of his real name to +the end--became tired of so much adventure. + +They had sailed in many seas: the Spanish Main--commonly known as the +Dining-room Carpetwaters--the Kitchen Archipelago, the Drawing-room +Inland Sea, the Creek of Conservatory, and the Lake of Passages. They +had roamed the Wilderness of the High Street, the terrors of the Gardens +they knew, and the Gulf of Front Hall was common water. + +So they retired for a breathing space and a wash to that Island where +the neat cottage stood and the geraniums grew. + +[Illustration] + +They moored the _Inky Murk_ to a low-growing pom-pom tree, and then, +stepping carefully, like those unaccustomed to dry land (or wet land +either, for the matter of that), they gazed upon each other in silence. + +[Illustration] + +No one, not even the most careful observer, would have recognised in the +two dusty figures, the once spruce forms of Captain Thomas Tomb and +Dingy David. + +[Illustration] + +"Home!" said the young fellow, throwing a diamond at a wave-crest. (When +I say "diamond"--they were always finding them in corners of their +pockets.) + +"Home once more!" + +"Cinderadustmat!" exclaimed Tomb. "Let me hear you, oh! let me hear you +say the word again!" + +"Home," said the young fellow, gazing at the ripe ockapillies hanging +overhead. + +[Illustration] + +Mastering his ill-concealed emotion, T. T. rose and strode--(when I say +strode--T. T. never walked: he strolled, strutted, strode, or stepped, +invariably)--towards the house. + +[Illustration] + +Threw open the door!! xxxxxx! o! z! What a sight met his eyes!! + +Dust, dust, dust--everywhere. + +[Illustration] + +Dust met his eye. (When I say that, I mean that he saw dust--over all +the simple cottage furniture he loved.) + +He groaned three times. + +The young man, who was idly chewing the stone of a cringet, turned and +saw, through the open door, dust, dust, dust. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +Leaping to his feet, he rushed to the Captain's side. + +"Captain," said he, "we must have a Charwoman." + +(I say charwoman, meaning a woman who is paid to do work that other +servants are hired to do, but will not.) + +[Illustration] + +In less time than it takes to skin an acquadatoric, Dingy David was in +the rowing-boat making for the shore of the mainland. + +[Illustration] + +Sixty-eight hours of hard rowing, without a rest, brought the strong +young fellow to the coast. + +It was night. + +[Illustration: Pause--excited reader.] + +A light burned in the window of the lonely cottage that stood upon the +shore. + +[Illustration] + +It was the work of a moment for Dingy David to seize upon the beautiful +maiden who was writing jam labels, by the light of a solitary candle. + +Such are the lives of the humble. + +[Illustration] + +Without a glance at her face, he carried her at breakneck speed to the +boat--pushed off, and rowed like Hercules for the island. + +[Illustration] + +Exactly one hundred and thirty-six hours--which is five days sixteen +hours from the time he started--David brought the captive beauty and +laid her, senseless with fatigue, at the feet of Tom Tomb. + +[Illustration] + +"What have we here?" asked Tomb, pronouncing the H very clearly. + +"A charwoman, sire," responded David; and, smiling, the lad fell +asleep. + +[Illustration] + +When he awoke the sun was shining and the day was warm. + +One glance showed him that the cottage was a model of cleanliness. + +(Pirates are sharp glancers.) + +[Illustration] + +A smell of breakfast smote his nostrils pleasantly. + +It was the work of a moment to dash into the house, wash, shave, +and--there, upon a snowy bed, were laid the very clothes in which--long +years ago--he had been captured. + +In another moment he was in them and dashing downstairs, doing up the +buttons as he went. + +He flung himself, panting, into the breakfast-room. + +[Illustration] + +The glorious girl looked up from her bacon with a cry. + +Tomb started to his feet. + +The young man opened his mouth. + +[Illustration] + +"Ermyntrude!" he called. + +"Wencheslaus!" she exclaimed. + +For once Tomb's cool courage failed him.--He started back. + +The sweethearts were in each other's arms. + +[Illustration] + +"Listen," said Tomb, when he regained his breath; and they, gazing into +each other's eyes, listened. + +"Gaze elsewhere," said Tomb, "and I will unfold a tale." + +In the heat of the moment he put his sleeve into the butter. + +Ermyntrude sprang to his assistance. Tomb enfolded her in his embrace. + +[Illustration] + +"This lady is my daughter," he said, turning to Wencheslaus, who stood +amazed. + +"I will not bother you with the story," said Tomb, "but five and forty +years ago I wooed and wed her lovely mother. Twenty-one years ago to-day +Ermyntrude was born, and her mother, after lingering two years, died. +Leaving the girl in the care of an honest fishwife (when I say honest, I +mean, as honest as her profession allowed), I roamed the seas as a +Pirate: sorrow made me merciless. Then, when I wished to return to my +daughter, I found that I had lost her address." + +"Father!" said Ermyntrude. + +"My daughter," he exclaimed, "I am a careless man!" + +"And I?" said Wencheslaus--"what is the secret of my birth?" + +Going up to him, Tomb, with one superb movement, bared the youth's arm. +Upon it was tattooed, in gold and purple, the crest of a noble family. + +"As I thought!" exclaimed Tomb; then he removed his hat. "Lord +Wencheslaus of When-cheeselawn!" + +"Then my father _was_ . . ." the youth began. + +"The Duke of Thingamaroo," said Tomb, bowing low. + +[Illustration] + +A cry sounded from the cellars of the cottage. + +Tomb again started. + +"I had forgotten," said he. Then he put his hand into his pocket, and +drew forth this very book. + +"Ten years ago," said he, consulting his notes, "I told you that I had +killed your family. It was not true." + +"Not true?" said Lord Wencheslaus--for so we must now call him. + +"Not strictly accurate," Tomb replied. "I immured them in these cellars, +with ten years' provisions." + +With a noble gesture, he flung the key of the cellars upon the table. + +"Release them, my Lord," he said. + +[Illustration] + +We draw a veil over the rapturous meeting. + +[Illustration] + +When the boat was loaded with the noble family, Lord Wencheslaus +(erstwhile Dingy David) and Ermyntrude Tomb stood hand in hand in front +of Captain Thomas Tomb. + +"You must often come and see us, father," she said. + +"My little Ermyntrude," he said, "you can bet your back hair your poor +old father will often come." + +Lord W. wrung Tomb's hand: his emotion was too great for words. + +They stepped into the boat and sailed away. + +[Illustration] + +As they touched the mainland they started. + +Boom! boom!! came the sound of guns across the water. + +Tom Tomb was at his old game. + +[Illustration] + + +PRINTED BY NEILL AND COMPANY, LIMITED, EDINBURGH. + + + +***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PIRATE'S POCKET BOOK*** + + +******* This file should be named 24783.txt or 24783.zip ******* + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/4/7/8/24783 + + + +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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