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The Black Buccaneer, by Stephen W. Meader
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Title: The Black Buccaneer
Author: Stephen W. Meader
Release Date: March 27, 2009 [EBook #28418]
Language: English
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THE BLACK BUCCANEER
BY
STEPHEN W. MEADER
ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR
NEW YORK
HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC.
Twelfth printing, May, 1940
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY QUINN & BODEN COMPANY, INC., RAHWAY, N. J.
FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
"If a man starts to haul on that line, I'll shoot him dead!" Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
"Ho, ho, young woodcock, and how do ye like the company of Stede Bonnet's rovers?" 23
"Don't say a word--sh!--easy there--are you awake?" 143
A sudden red glare on the walls of the chasm 223
Job had bracketed his target 247
THE BLACK