It is but to-day that we have found time to cleanse her deck from the stain and disorder of our last fight, having lately come into harbour.

That was a great fight, Sir Bonnet; we lay low and let the fellows board us, but not one of them went back again.

Ha! ha! Not one of them went back again, good ladies." Every pirate face on board that ill-conditioned sloop now glared over her rail, their eyes fixed upon the goodly company in the little boat, their horrid hair and beards stained and matted--it would have been hard to tell by what.
"Oh, father, father!" panted Kate, "please row away.

What if they should now jump down upon us ?" "Good-day, good-day, my brave Captain Sorby," said Bonnet, "we must e'en row away; we have other craft to visit, but would first do honour to you and your bold crew." Captain Sorby lifted high his great bespattered hat, and every grinning demon of the crew waved hat or rag or pail or cutlass and set up a discordant yell in honour of their departing visitors.
"Oh! go not to another, father," pleaded Kate, her pale face in tears; "visit no more of them, I pray you!" "Ay, truly, keep away from them," said Mr.Delaplaine.

"I am no coward, but I vow to you that I shall die of fright if I come close to another of those floating hells." "And these," said Kate to herself, her eyes fixed out over the sea, "these are his friends, his companions, the wretches of whom he is so proud." "There are no more vessels like that in port," said Bonnet; "that's the most celebrated sloop.