You may call a thing by one name or by another, but, when it comes down to it, is the business of capturing enemy prize ships in order to grow rich on the proceeds so different from holding up merchantmen for the same reason?
But we are concerned for the moment with the Randalls, father and son, and most excellent fellows they appear to have both been.

I should like to believe that Cap'n Tom owned a cutlass, but I fear it was a bit late for that! Captain Tom appears to have been generous and kindly,--like most persons of questionable and picturesque careers.

The Silversmith who left his entire belongings to the Captain in 1796 is but one of many who had reason to love him.

One historian declares that he settled down, after retiring from the sea, and "became a respectable merchant at 10 Hanover Street," where he piled up more and more gold to leave his son Robert Richard.

But it is a matter of record that the address at which he died was 8 Whitehall.