The Queen of the Pirate Isle by Bret Harte
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Patsey: "Hallo, fellers."
The Pirates: "Hello!" Patsey: "Goin' to hunt bars? Dad seed a lot o' tracks at sun-up." The Pirates (hesitating): "No--o--" Patsey: "I am; know where I kin get a six-shooter?" The Pirates (almost ready to abandon piracy for bear-hunting, but preserving their dignity): "Can't! We've runn'd away for real pirates." Patsey: "Not for good!" The Queen (interposing with sad dignity and real tears in her round blue eyes): "Yes!" (slowly and shaking her head). "Can't go back again. Never! Never! Never! The--the--eye is cast!" Patsey (bursting with excitement): "No-o! Sho'o! Wanter know." The Pirates (a little frightened themselves, but tremulous with gratified vanity): "The Perleese is on our track!" Patsey: "Lemme go with yer!" Hickory: "Wot'll yer giv?" Patsey: "Pistol and er bananer." |
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