Oh, Kate, Kate! if I had but known." "Miss Kate, if you please," said the girl.

"And it is well, Dickory, you did not know, for then you might have jumped upon him and stuck him in the back, and that would have been dishonourable." "He thought," said Dickory, not in the least abashed by his reproof, "that the Revenge was commanded by your father, for he sprang upon the deck, shouting for the captain, and when he saw Blackbeard I heard him exclaim in surprise, 'A sugar-planter!'" "And he would have killed my father ?" said Kate, turning pale at the thought.
"Yes," replied Dickory, "he would have killed any man except the great Blackbeard.

And to think of it! I stood there watching them, and wishing that vile Englishman the victory.

Oh, Kate! you should have seen that wonderful pirate fight.

No man could have stood before him." Then, with sparkling eyes and waving arms, he told her of the combat.