A Pirate from Boyhood About the beginning of the eighteenth century there lived in Westminster, England, a boy who very early in life made a choice of a future career.

Nearly all boys have ideas upon this subject, and while some think they would like to be presidents or generals of armies, others fancy that they would prefer to be explorers of unknown countries or to keep candy shops.

But it generally happens that these youthful ideas are never carried out, and that the boy who would wish to sell candy because he likes to eat it, becomes a farmer on the western prairie, where confectionery is never seen, and the would-be general determines to study for the ministry.
But Edward Low, the boy under consideration, was a different sort of a fellow.

The life of a robber suited his youthful fancy, and he not only adopted it at a very early age, but he stuck to it until the end of his life.

He was much stronger and bolder than the youngsters with whom he associated, and he soon became known among them as a regular land pirate.