Fenner Phyllis R. Pirates, Pirates, Pirates: Stories of Cutlasses and Corsairs Buried Treasure and Buccaneers Ships and Swashbucklers

London: Chatto and Windus, 1914. — 255 p.Have you ever wanted to be a pirate? Well, you won’t be the first person who has. The pirate’s life sounds pretty exciting. Sailing the seven seas. Capturing galleons full of gems and bars of silver, even beautiful ladies. Rings in your ears. Red kerchief tied over your head. A bristling musnfche. Perhaps a patch over your eye, and a cutlass in your hand. There wtfre many kinds of pirates and they traveled imder many different names: freebooters, buccaneers, corsairs, sea wolves, sea rovers, marauders of the sea. Even a privateer was a pirate of sorts. “Scratch a privateersman and you’ll find a pirate” was a saying. Of course, a privateer wasn’t cruel and bloody, like a regular pirate, but he did capture vessels for their cargo—for his government, of course. There are even pirates today. The river pirates and pirates in Bering Strait are pretty tough fellows. And people today are still hunting pirate treasure. There are as many different kinds of pirate stories as there are pirates. You will find in this book stories of mutinies, of search for buried pirate treasure, of fights between pirates themselves, of privateers who helped this country win a war. You will find stories of some famous pirates: Jean Lafitte, Blackbeard, Bonnet, and others. Yes, these pirates were very colorful fellows. But stricdy between ourselves. I’d rather read about them than meet one.Two Chests of Treasure; Merritt P. Allen.
Turn dind Turn AhonV. Rupert Sargent Holland.
The Capture of a Brig; Stephen Meader.
Pirate Gold ; Charles Coppock.
Augustus, Pirate: LeGrand.
Tom Chist and the Treasure Box: Howard Pyle.
The Pirate Rat: Jean Muir.
Cap’n Ezra, Privateer: James D. Adams.
Blackbeard; Anne Malcolmson.
Back to Treasure Island: Harold A. Calahan.
Mutineers Be Hanged: John F. Hinternhoff.
The Pirates of Charles Town Harbor: Rupert Sargent Holland.
Balck Falcon: Armstrong Sperry.