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THE QUEEN

OF THE

PIRATE ISLE

BY

BRET HARTE

ILLUSTRATED BY

KATE GREENAWAY

A FACSIMILE FROM THE ORIGINAL PUBLICATION OF 1885

UNIVERSAL BOOKS LTD, LONDON, ENGLAND

Harte, Bret, 1836-1902.

ISBN 0 86441 018 2.

THE QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE.

I first knew her as the Queen of the Pirate Isle. To the best of my recollection she had no reasonable right to that title. She was only nine years old, inclined to plumpness and good humour, deprecated violence and had never been to sea. Need it be