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    QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE - A Children's Adventure Story
    QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE - A Children's Adventure Story
    QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE - A Children's Adventure Story
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    QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE - A Children's Adventure Story

    By Bret Harte

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    This is a quintessential children’s make-up-adventure story and is delightful in its telling. The 28 color images are exquisitely crafted and reflect and add to the essence of the story.

    Our story is set in the San Francisco area during the Gold Rush era of the late 1840’s and early 1850’s.
    The Queen of the Pirate Isle is about an imaginative young girl named Polly, who, with her cousin Hickory, a small Chinese boy named Wan Lee, and a neighbour named Patsey, who, after a game of pirates in the house, decide to “run away” to become real pirates.
    On their way they pass through the mining area where they slip and fall down a steep mud-slide. Polly’s doll’s removable hair got caught on something and ripped off during the fall and is now bald.

    They end up falling asleep in a nearby mine and are awoken and brought home by the miners, who have dressed up as pirates as a thank-you to Polly and the children as the mine in which they fell asleep led the miners to a new seam of gold.
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    KEYWORDS/TAGS: Queen, Pirate Isle, Gold rush era, polly, hickory, Wan lee, patsey, play, game, run away, mining camp, mines, Mrs Smith, Beggar Child, School Mistress, Indian Maiden, Proud Lady, Chinese Junk, Swimming, Life, Tent, Capture, Merchantman, sailing ship, Supper, Branches, Slumgullion, Each Other, Hands, Edge, Cliff, mud slide, mud chute, Sliding, Down Hill, Pig Tail, Rope, Fireworks, Cave, Lady Mary's Hair, Gone, Invisible, Medicine, Clad, Deep, Mourning, Brother, Step-And-Fetch-It, taken Home, Asleep, Doll, California,
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbela Publishing
    Release dateJul 7, 2020
    ISBN9788835860952
    QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE - A Children's Adventure Story
    Author

    Bret Harte

    Bret Harte (1836–1902) was an author and poet known for his romantic depictions of the American West and the California gold rush. Born in New York, Harte moved to California when he was seventeen and worked as a miner, messenger, and journalist. In 1868 he became editor of the Overland Monthly, a literary journal in which he published his most famous work, “The Luck of Roaring Camp.” In 1871 Harte returned east to further his writing career. He spent his later years as an American diplomat in Germany and Britain.

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      QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE - A Children's Adventure Story - Bret Harte

      The Queen

      of the

      Pirate Isle

      By

      Bret Harte

      Illustrated By

      Kate Greenaway

      Originally Published By

      Chatto & Windus, London

      1885

      Resurrected By

      Abela Publishing, London

      [2020]

      The Queen of the Pirate Isle

      Typographical arrangement of this edition

      © Abela Publishing 2020

      This book may not be reproduced in its current format in any manner in any media, or transmitted by any means whatsoever, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, or mechanical ( including photocopy, file or video recording, internet web sites, blogs,wikis, or any other information storage and retrieval system) except as permitted by law without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Abela Publishing,

      London

      United Kingdom

      2020

      ISBN-13: 978-X-XXXXXX-XX-X

      email:

      [email protected]

      Website:

      http://bit.ly/2HekG4n

      List of Illustrations

      Mrs Smith

      Polly

      Beggar Child

      School Mistress

      Indian Maiden

      Proud Lady

      Chinese Junk

      Swimming For His Life

      A Tent

      Capture Of Merchantman

      At Supper

      Polly In The Branches

      Patsey

      Slumgullion

      Each Other's Hands

      Edge Of Cliff

      Sliding Down Hill

      Pig Tail Rope

      Fireworks In Cave

      Lady Mary's Hair Gone

      Invisible Medicine

      Clad In Deepest Mourning

      Brother Step-And-Fetch-It

      Wan Lee

      Not Always Pirates

      Polly Brought Home

      Asleep With Doll

      The Queen of

      The Pirate Isle

      I first knew her as the Queen of the Pirate Isle. To the best of my recollection she had no reasonable right to that title. She was only nine years old, inclined to plumpness and good humour, deprecated violence and had never been to sea. Need it be added that she did not live in an island and that her name was Polly.

      Perhaps I ought to explain that she had already known other experiences of a purely imaginative character. Part of her existence had been passed as a Beggar Child—solely indicated by a shawl tightly folded round her shoulders and chills,—as a Schoolmistress, unnecessarily severe;

      as a Preacher, singularly personal in his remarks, and once, after reading one of Cooper's novels, as an Indian Maiden. This was, I believe, the only instance when she had borrowed from another's fiction.

      Most of the characters that she assumed for days and sometimes weeks

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