Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-09-22
The Boy Buccaneer.

From the advance sheets of "The Boy
Buccaneer; or, a Pirate at Eleven, we
extract the following superb passage.
Now is the time for our young friends to
get up clubs:
AS the good ship keeled over on her
mizzen poop, preached to, went aback
and luffed the bilge, Daring Davy leaped
over the sheets of flame that poured
from her lee futtocks and wrapped the
after bowsprits in its fiery embrace, and,
placing cutlass in his teeth, bounded
overheard.
The lurid light illuminated the inkv
storm swept waste for miles around, and
he could see at the distance of four miles
the streaming golden hair and heaven
raised blue eyes of Milly Morningglory,
the shippers daughter, as she chung to
the Stats of chicken-cOop that every
moment threatened to disappear be-
meath the tremendous pillows. Gin the
Adriatic the waves are often fifteen and
quarter feet high. See appendix
Davy had scarcely made a dozen vigor-
GUS strokes when the frigateen blew up
with tremendous shock, like the bang
ing of picnic car-door. The blazing
mainmast fell directly on the top of the
Young hero's head, and carried him
down to the bottom of the raging sea.
To cut himself loose from the rigging
was but the work of moment, and as
he rose to the surface again the Juvenile
mineralogist tore small piece of rock
from the reef on which he stood and
placed it in his pocket. On emerging
he examined the fragment.
1T is coral reef he exclaimed,
"and this is the work of those wonderful
insects, the tiny masons of the sea-"
(See Appendix.)
Davy had gained another mile in his
progress toward the hen-coop when he
deserted rushing toward him the huge
dorsal fin of a gigantic shark. AS the
bideous monster turned over and opened
| its yawning jaws to seize him the intre-
| pid boy could plainly discern its sixteen
blood -curdling rows of celluloid teeth
and yellow belly with blush spots.
cit is the man-eating yellow jack of
the tropics,' said the young pirate, feel
ing in his pea-jacket for glass bomb,
'sthe species classified by Audubon as
the 7,iscus sndtchus fcr'orn (see Appen-
dix), and he carefully dropped the
bomb into the gaping demon star-trap
beneath him. The shark blew up with
loud report, and the noble boy battled
onward against the roaring surges.
A few minutes later an enormous
whale bore down on Daring Davy, with
it's eyes flashing and its mouth open, in
which it ratified its whalebones like a
corset factory in full operation. Hold
ing his cutlass uprightly behind his back,
Davy suddenly Owed beneath the pom
derous mass and ripped it clear open
from head to tail.
1t was an SO0-barrel cetacean, the
sperm or right whale of commerce.
"Singular that it should exist in this
latitude,' (see Appendix), murmured
the piratical young naturalist.
A few more sturdy strokes brought
him alongside of the hencoop. just as
he was about to climb upon it, and clasp
the beautiful Milly to his crime-stained
but noble heart, he felt clammy grasp
seize his right toe. Davy turned a
deathly pale.
sit is the dread scourge of the
Pac fic, the Octopus, or devil-fsh."
(see Appendix), he exclaimed, with a
snudder.-Saa Francisco Post.