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Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would
permit us to be pirates. "And don't they wear the bulliest clothes! Oh no! All gold and silver
and di'monds," said Joe, with enthusiasm. Heathens don't amount to shucks alongside of pirates, to work a camp-meeting
with. |
 AI image created by Barbara Schmidt |
| Back of the Virginian Clemenses is a dim
procession of ancestors stretching back to Noah's time. According to tradition,
some of them were pirates and slavers in Elizabeth's time. But this is no
discredit to them, for so were Drake and Hawkins and the others. It was
a respectable trade, then, and monarchs were partners in it. In my time
I have had desires to be a pirate myself. - Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1 (2010) |
 Russian edition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer from the Dave Thomson collection |
Pirates -
the mascot of Mark Twain's Hannibal, Missouri
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