Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-16
THE BOY ByCCANEER.,
From Adcance Sheets of the Thrilling Nesc
Story Entitled "1he Boy Bwccaneer; or a
Pirate at EIeren."

From, Adcanee Sheets Of the Thrilling Nese
Story Entitled "1he Boy Bssccaneer; or a
Pirate at EIeren.'
Derrick Dodge in San Francisco Post.]
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
bowsprit in its fiery embrace, and, placing
a cutlass in his teeth, bounded overheard.
The lurid light illuminated the inky
storm swept waste for miles around, and
he could see at the distance of four miles
! the streming golden hair and heaven
raised blue eyes of Milly Morningglory
, the shippers daughter, as she clung to
| the Stats of chicken coop that every
moment threatened to disappear beneath
| the tremendous pillows. Qn the Adriat1c
| the waves are often fifteen and quarter
feet high See appendix Davy had
scarcely made dozen vigorous strokes
when the frigateen blew up with a ire
| mendous shock, like the banging of a
picnic-car door The blazing mainmast
fell directly on the top of the young hero's
of the raging sea- To cut himself loose
from the rigging was but the work of a
moment, and as he rose to the surface
again the juvenile mineralOgist tore a
small piece of rock from the reef on
| which he stood and placed it in his
pocket. On emerging he examined the
fragment.
at is coralreef," he exclaimed, land
! this is the work of those wonderful in
sects, the tiny masons Of the sea-" (See
Appendix.)
Davy had gained another mile in hi
progress toward the hencoop when he
deserted rushing toward him the huge
dorsal fin of a gigantic shark. AS the
hideous monster turned over and opened
it's yawning jaws to seize him the intrepid
boy could plainly discern its sixteen
blood-curdling rows of celluloid teeth
and yellow belly with blush spots.
sit is the true man. eating yellow jack
of the tropics" said the young pirate,
feeling in his pea jacket for glass bomb,
"the species classified by Audubon as the
piscis snatchis ferox," (See Appendix)
and he scarcely dropped the bomb into
the gaping demon star-trap beneath him.
The shark blew up with a 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
its eyes flashing and its mouth open, in
which it ratified its whalebones like cor
set factory in full operation. Holding
his cutlass upright behind his back,
Davy suddenly dived beneath the pom
derous mass and ripped it clear open
from head to tail
1t was an eight-hundred barrel Get
acean, the sperm or right whale of COM
merce. singular that it should exist in
this latitude" (See appendix), murmered
the piratical young naturalallst,
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 a clammy grasp
seize his right toe. Davy turned death
ly pale.
at is the dread scourge of the Pacific,
the Octopus, or devil fish" (See APP
pendix,) he exclaimed with shudder.
To be continued in our next.