Captain Scraggs; Or, The Green-Pea Pirates

Under the direction of the crafty commodore, the valuable cargo of the _Maggie II_ was disposed of in Honolulu. During the period while the schooner lay at the dock discharging...

When Captain Scraggs, after abandoning all hope of salving the bark _Chesapeake_, returned to the _Maggie_, the little craft reminded him of nothing so much as the ward for the...

It was fully a week before Captain Scraggs's mental hemorrhage, brought on every time his mind reverted to his loss on the "ginseng" deal, ceased. During all of that period his...

Godless and wholly irreclaimable as Mr. Gibney and Mr. McGuffey might have been and doubtless were, each possessed in bounteous measure the sweetest of human attributes, to-wit:...

At 6:30 o'clock of the morning of the day following the frightful experience of Commodore Gibney and Captain Scraggs with the cannibals of Kandavu, the members of the _Maggie II...

"Fried eggs," said Captain Scraggs, remembering Mr. Gibney's partiality for that form of nutriment in the vanished days of the green-pea trade. "Ham an' fried eggs an' a sizzlin...

Had either Mr. Gibney or McGuffey been watching Captain Scraggs for the next twenty minutes they would have been much puzzled to account for that worthy's actions. First he dodg...

Had either Gibney or McGuffey glanced back as they headed for their haven of forgetfulness they might have seen Captain Scraggs poking his fox face up over the edge of a tier of...

The crews of the _Aphrodite_ and the _Bodega_ slept late also, for they were weary, and fortunately, no calls for a tug came into the office of the Red Stack Company all morning...

The tide was still at the flood and the two adventurers made fast progress toward the _Chesapeake_. Choosing a favourable opportunity as the vessel dipped, they grasped her mart...

The pirates were early astir; so early, in fact, that long before Captain Scraggs and his crew appeared on deck, Messrs. Gibney and McGuffey had quietly cooked breakfast in the...

In the office of the Red Stack Tug Boat Company, Captain Dan Hicks, master of the tug _Aphrodite_; Captain Jack Flaherty, master of the _Bodega_, and Tiernan, the assistant supe...

A week had elapsed and nothing of an eventful nature had transpired to disturb the routine of life aboard the _Maggie_, until Bartholomew McGuffey, having heard certain waterfro...

Neils Halvorsen often wondered what had become of the _Maggie_ and Captain Scraggs. Mr. Gibney and Bartholomew McGuffey he knew had turned their sun-tanned faces toward deep wat...

"Right-o," replied Captain Scraggs cheerily, "though when I was a young feller and first went to sea, it wasn't considered no pleasantry to spit on a nice clean deck. You might...

Darkness was creeping over the beach at Tuvana-tholo before Mr. Gibney could smother the despair in his heart sufficient to spur his jaded imagination into working order. For ne...

"Now, boys," announced Commodore Gibney, as he sat at the head of the officers' mess at breakfast next morning, "there'll be a lot of canoes paddling off to visit us within the...

The crew of the _Maggie_ had ceased working cargo for the day and Captain Scraggs was busy cooking supper in the galley when the two prodigals, exhausted, crippled, and repentan...

Captain Scraggs and The Squarehead partook first of the ham and eggs, coffee and bread which the skipper prepared. Scraggs then prepared a similar meal for Mr. Gibney and McGuff...

On board the _Maggie II_ B. McGuffey, Esquire, had just gotten into position the Maxim-Vickers "pom-pom" gun on top of the house. The last bolt that held it in place had just be...

The lookout on the power schooner _Maggie II_ had sighted Diamond Head before Commodore Adelbert P. Gibney, Captain Phineas P. Scraggs, and Engineer Bartholomew McGuffey were en...

Mr. Gibney had made a splendid job of changing the vessel's name, and as she chugged lazily out of Panama Bay and lifted to the long ground-swell of the Pacific, it is doubtful...

"Now," Mr. Gibney inquired, approaching the skipper of the _Chesapeake_, "what'll you give me an' Mac, sir, to sail you in? Has it dawned on you, sir, that if I hadn't had sense...

Before proceeding further with this narrative, due respect for the reader's curiosity directs that we diverge for a period sufficient to present a brief history of the steamer _...

Upon arrival at the beach the two adventurers were met by a contingent of frightful-looking savages bearing long spears. As the procession formed around the two guests of honour...

Captain Scraggs continued to hurl other people's vegetables into the murk forward for at least two minutes after Mr. McGuffey had shaken the coal dust of the _Maggie_ from his f...

They had seen the fog rolling down the coast shortly after the _Maggie_ had rounded Pilar Point at sunset and headed north. Captain Scraggs has been steamboating too many unprof...

As the _Maggie_ chugged blithely away, the navigating officer's soul expanded in song, and in the voice of a bull walrus he delivered himself of a deep sea chantey more popular...

McGuffey killed his engine, banked his fires, and came up on deck, wiping his anxious face with a fearfully filthy sweat rag. At the same time, Scraggs and Neils Halvorsen came...