The last buccaneer

by L. Cope Cornford

What only steals the life o’ men

Beats up alongside, late or soon.

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.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER	PAGE
	Dedication—Captain Dawkins explains	[ 5]
I.	Shows how a Simple Bait will serve to hook the Willing Fish	[ 9]
II.	We set our Hands to a Christian Enterprise	[ 26]
III.	In which the “Blessed Endeavour” is deprivedof Direction both Spiritual and Temporal	[ 46]
IV.	A Letter of Introduction	[ 63]
V.	Mr Murch’s Repentance	[ 77]
VI.	Two Catspaws and a Lady	[ 94]
VII.	The “Wheel of Fortune” makes a Quick Run	[ 105]
VIII.	The Story of the Incomparable Lady and the Admiral of Buccaneers	[ 124]
IX.	How the Supercargo asserted his Independence	[ 136]
X.	“Dux Femina Fecit”	[ 152]
XI.	The Little Cruise of “La Modeste”	[ 166]
XII.	The Old Buccaneer and the New	[ 183]
XIII.	Showing what Befell in Caratasca	[ 209]
XIV.	Captain Murch takes Command	[ 221]
XV.	Which contains the Only Ostensible Love-Scene in the Book	[ 234]
XVI.	Mr Dawkins gives Us a Little Surprise	[ 238]
XVII.	The Luck is Fairly Out	[ 250]
XVIII.	Hooky Gamaliel pays the Score	[ 260]
XIX.	Tells the Conclusion of the Night’s Adventures	[ 276]
XX.	The Longest Liver takes All	[ 289]
XXI.	Mr Dawkins has the Last Word	[ 310]

THE LAST BUCCANEER