Copyright, 1908
BY
THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING CO.
MADE BY
THE WERNER COMPANY
AKRON, OHIO

CONTENTS

ChapterPage
I I Go In Search of Captain Tucker[ 9]
II In Which I Defy the Captain[ 22]
III Left on the Brig[ 38]
IV A Dastardly Trick[ 51]
V An Unfortunate Remark[ 67]
VI In Which I Have My First Taste of a British Prison[ 84]
VII I Meet a New Friend[ 99]
VIII Our First Prize[ 113]
IX An Astonishing Offer[ 127]
X We Capture a Frigate[ 146]
XI A Distinguished Passenger on Board[ 166]
XII To Halifax Prison[ 180]
XIII On Board a British Frigate[ 194]
XIV I Rejoin the Boston[ 208]
XV In Which We Capture the Pole[ 223]
XVI To the Defense of Charleston[ 237]
XVII Taken Into the British Camp[ 251]
XVIII The Beacon House Light Expedition[ 266]
XIX We Board a Cartel Ship[ 283]
XX Charleston is Taken[ 299]
XXI “The Cruise of the Nine”[ 313]
XXII Captured by the Hind[ 327]
XXIII The Escape[ 345]

ILLUSTRATIONS

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“Mark you, if you miss the craft, you shallreceive forty blows”[ Frontispiece]
“What I want is a second mate”[ 82]
“Master Dunn, you are my prisoner”[ 158]
He soon came upon the shore, where a boat andfour men were evidently awaiting him[ 270]

AUTHOR’S NOTE

“Of those heroic men who were distinguished in the American Revolution on land or sea, the far greater part have been depictured by able pens. Monuments have been erected, biographies have been written, and the elegant historian has adorned their memory with unfading wreaths. * * * But there is one man of no mean rank in the day of struggle—a pioneer of our infant navy—who took more prizes, fought more sea fights, and gained more victories than, with a very few exceptions, any naval hero of the age.”—From Shepard’s Life of Captain Samuel Tucker.

“He did his part, and did it nobly, while our navy was in an embryo state, and only consisted of a few armed sloops and schooners, and yet performed such essential service in supplying the destitute army of Washington.”—From American Almanac, 1835.