St Nicholas [serial] . howsthat Esquemeling, although he was a memberof the piratical body, and was proud to con-sider himself a buccaneer, did not understandthe true nature of a pirate. Under the brutal-ity, the cruelty, the dishonesty, and the reck-lessness of the sea-robbers of those days, therewas nearly always meanness and , as we have said in the beginning of thissketch, was a typical pirate; under certaincircumstances he showed himself to have allthose brave and savage qualities which Esque-meling esteemed and revered, and under othercircumstances he showed those other qual
St Nicholas [serial] . howsthat Esquemeling, although he was a memberof the piratical body, and was proud to con-sider himself a buccaneer, did not understandthe true nature of a pirate. Under the brutal-ity, the cruelty, the dishonesty, and the reck-lessness of the sea-robbers of those days, therewas nearly always meanness and , as we have said in the beginning of thissketch, was a typical pirate; under certaincircumstances he showed himself to have allthose brave and savage qualities which Esque-meling esteemed and revered, and under othercircumstances he showed those other qualitieswhich Esquemeling despised, but which arcnecessary to make up the true pirate. The historian John seems to have been verymuch cut up by the manner in which his favor-ite hero had rounded off his piratical career,and after that he ignored Roc entirely. This out-and-out pirate was afterward livingin Jamaica, but Esquemeling would have noth-ing more to do with him, nor with the historyof his deeds. (To be continued.). By Carrie Clark Nottingham. Grandma was going to have a birthday,and Mirabel was thinking. She had her chinpropped by her two plump fists, and her elbowsrested on her knees. Her fair little foreheadwas all in a pucker, and between her eyes weretwo straight up-and-down lines which broughtthe brows very close together, quite after thefashion of grown folks when they think un-pleasant thoughts. Not that birthdays are unpleasant; by nomeans. Mirabel always wished that hers wouldhurry up, and come two or three times in a year,each time attended by a frosted cake andcandles, and a present, too. To receive a present from some one wholoves you is a very easy and delightful act. Togive one to quite the dearest grandma in all theworld is a much more serious matter — a greatpuzzle, in fact. Mirabel unclasped one fat fist, and anxiouslyregarded the two pennies it contained. She counted them slowly and carefully. Then sheturned them over, and counted them studied
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