The Voyage of the Hoppergrass

It was a lucky thing that the "Hoppergrass" was a large boat. When we started there were only four of us,--counting Captain Bannister. But we kept picking up passengers--unexpec...

A sand-bar stuck out of the water, right in the middle of the river. Only a few feet of it showed, and the island which it made was very small. It was so small that the man who...

"You know that a great many of the most famous pirates were really rather small potatoes. Take Captain Kidd, for instance. Why, they are still disputing whether he was a pirate...

"Not that yer troubles with that there canoe proves anything," returned the skipper, "for foolisher things was never invented. I wouldn't git into one of 'em not if you was to g...

"Our case is desperate," said Mr. Daddles, "but we'll pull through, somehow. Perhaps the Captain went treasure-hunting himself, and has got lost in the fog. This has been a busy...

"Better wait a second, Eb," said one of the men who was holding Mr. Daddles. He was a fat man, with ears that stuck out the way an elephant's do, when he waves them. "Better wai...

We were in a little yard at the rear of the jail. There was a large empty building,--a barn, or a boat-builder's work-shop, on the next lot. It cast a deep shadow over one side...

"What's the 'Hopper'--?" began Mr. Daddles, but his voice was drowned out by the crier. Beginning with his "Hear what I have to say!" he repeated the announcement word for word...

Two minutes later I had begun to regret my decision, and to wonder if it was a mistake to stay on the island. I reflected that I was alone, with two strangers. Yet they were pos...

It was hard to get them started--they were clustered so thick around the Deacon and his little box, all talking and laughing and discussing. Everyone was awake now, and animated...

Someone--not the Captain, but a boy in a blue shirt--looked up from the wheel. Then I heard Mr. Snider come crashing and floundering through the underbrush, so I waded into the...

At the same moment Captain Bannister poked his head under the sail and looked at us. His face was grim--as it might have been that time he was chased by pirates in the China Sea...