. Kate Bonnet; the romance of a pirate's daughter. t is trulyvery pleasant here. What makes it pleasant? said the girl. Dickory hesitated for a moment. Thebreeze from the forest, said he. 293 ^^???^?IHBMH^l KATE BOXXET She laughed. It is charming, she said, but there are so many places where there isjust as good a breeze, or perhaps better. HowI would like to go to some one of them! To methis island is lonely and doleful. Every timeI look over the sea for a ship I hope that onewill come that can carry us away. 1 Then, said Dickory, I wish a ship wouldcome to-morrow and take us all away togethe
. Kate Bonnet; the romance of a pirate's daughter. t is trulyvery pleasant here. What makes it pleasant? said the girl. Dickory hesitated for a moment. Thebreeze from the forest, said he. 293 ^^???^?IHBMH^l KATE BOXXET She laughed. It is charming, she said, but there are so many places where there isjust as good a breeze, or perhaps better. HowI would like to go to some one of them! To methis island is lonely and doleful. Every timeI look over the sea for a ship I hope that onewill come that can carry us away. 1 Then, said Dickory, I wish a ship wouldcome to-morrow and take us all away together. She shook her head. As my father toldyou, said she, we have no place to go to. Dickory thought a good deal about the sadcondition of the family of this worthy thought of it even after he had stretch^!himself for the night upon the bed of palmettoleaves beneath the tree against which he hadleaned when he wondered how he could be socheerful under the shadow of the sad fate whichwas before him. 29± CHAPTER XXVIIIlucillas ship. S soon as Dickory had left offbis cocked hat and his gold-embroidered coat, the littlegirl Lena had ceased to be afraid of him, andthe next morning she came to him, seated lonely—for this was a busy household—and asked himif he would like to take a walk. So, hand inhand, they wandered away. Presently they en-tered a path which led through the woods. This is the way my sister goes to her look-out tree, said the little girl. AVould you liketo see that tree 1 1 Oh, yes! said Dickory, and he spoke thetruth. She goes up to the very top, said Lena, to look for ships. I would never do that; I drather never see a ship than to climb to thetop of such a tree. I 11 show it to you in a min-ute ; we re almost there. At a little distance from the rest of the forest 295 KATE BONNET and upon a bluff which overlooked a stretch oflowland, and beyond that the bay, stood a talltree with spreading branches and heavy foliage. Up in the top of that is where she
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