Frederic Jesup Stimson
1) Pirate Gold
Author
Language
English
Description
Excerpt: "It consisted of a few hundred new American eagles and a few times as many Spanish doubloons; for pirates like good broad pieces, fit to skim flat-spun across the waves, or play pitch-and-toss with for men's lives or women's loves; they give five-dollar pieces or thin British guineas to the boy who brings them drink, and silver to their bootblacks, priests, or beggars. It was contained-the gold-in an old canvas bag, a little rotten and very...
Author
Series
Lowell Institute lectures 1907 volume 1907
Publisher
C. Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
©1908
Language
English