Published October, 1902
Electrotyped and Printed by
J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
TO
RUDYARD KIPLING
CAPTAIN DAWKINS EXPLAINS
Some plunder large, some pilfer small,
Some takes it straight, some on the bend:
The same remark doth fit ’em all—
Of buccaneering there’s no end.
I seen a man I much admired
Ranging the seas of all the world,