{"product_id":"2940016096810","title":"The Queen of the Pirate Isle","description":"MRS SMITH                  7\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePOLLY                     10\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBEGGAR CHILD              12\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSCHOOL MISTRESS           12\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINDIAN MAIDEN             13\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePROUD LADY                14\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHINESE JUNK              15\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSWIMMING FOR HIS LIFE     16\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA TENT                    17\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCAPTURE OF MERCHANTMAN    18\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAT SUPPER                 20\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePOLLY IN THE BRANCHES     23\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePATSEY                    25\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSLUMGULLION               28\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEACH OTHER'S HANDS        30\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEDGE OF CLIFF             31\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSLIDING DOWN HILL         32\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePIG TAIL ROPE             34\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFIREWORKS IN CAVE         37\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLADY MARY'S HAIR GONE     39\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINVISIBLE MEDICINE        42\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCLAD IN DEEPEST MOURNING  44\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBROTHER STEP-AND-FETCH-IT 48\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWAN LEE                   54\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNOT ALWAYS PIRATES        56\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePOLLY BROUGHT HOME        58\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eASLEEP WITH DOLL          60\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI first knew her as the Queen of the Pirate Isle. To the best of my\u003cbr\u003erecollection she had no reasonable right to that title. She was only\u003cbr\u003enine years old, inclined to plumpness and good humour, deprecated\u003cbr\u003eviolence and had never been to sea. Need it be added that she did\u003cbr\u003e_not_ live in an island and that her name was \"Polly.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps I ought to explain that she had already known other\u003cbr\u003eexperiences of a purely imaginative character. Part of her existence\u003cbr\u003ehad been passed as a Beggar Child--solely indicated by a shawl\u003cbr\u003etightly folded round her shoulders and chills,--as a Schoolmistress,\u003cbr\u003eunnecessarily severe; as a Preacher, singularly personal in his\u003cbr\u003eremarks, and once, after reading one of Cooper's novels, as an\u003cbr\u003eIndian Maiden. This was, I believe, the only instance when she had\u003cbr\u003eborrowed from another's fiction. Most of the characters that she\u003cbr\u003eassumed for days and sometimes weeks at a time were purely original\u003cbr\u003ein conception; some so much so as to be vague to the general\u003cbr\u003eunderstanding. I remember that her personation of a certain Mrs.\u003cbr\u003eSmith, whose individuality was supposed to be sufficiently\u003cbr\u003erepresented by a sun-bonnet worn wrong side before and a weekly\u003cbr\u003eaddition to her family, was never perfectly appreciated by her own\u003cbr\u003ecircle although she lived the character for a month. Another\u003cbr\u003ecreation known as \"The Proud Lady\"--a being whose excessive and\u003cbr\u003eunreasonable haughtiness was so pronounced as to give her features\u003cbr\u003ethe expression of extreme nausea, caused her mother so much alarm\u003cbr\u003ethat it had to be abandoned. This was easily effected. The Proud\u003cbr\u003eLady was understood to have died. Indeed, most of Polly's\u003cbr\u003eimpersonations were got rid of in this way, although it by no means\u003cbr\u003eprevented their subsequent reappearance. \"I thought Mrs. Smith was\u003cbr\u003edead,\" remonstrated her mother at the posthumous appearance of that\u003cbr\u003elady with a new infant. \"She was buried alive and kem to!\" said\u003cbr\u003ePolly with a melancholy air. Fortunately, the representation of a\u003cbr\u003eresuscitated person required such extraordinary acting, and was,\u003cbr\u003ethrough some uncertainty of conception, so closely allied in facial\u003cbr\u003eexpression to the Proud Lady, that Mrs. Smith was resuscitated only\u003cbr\u003efor a day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe origin of the title of the Queen of the Pirate Isle, may be\u003cbr\u003ebriefly stated as follows:--\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn hour after luncheon, one day, Polly, Hickory Hunt, her cousin,\u003cbr\u003eand Wan Lee, a Chinese page, were crossing the nursery floor in a\u003cbr\u003eChinese junk. The sea was calm and the sky cloudless. Any change in\u003cbr\u003ethe weather was as unexpected as it is in books. Suddenly a West\u003cbr\u003eIndian Hurricane, purely local in character and unfelt anywhere\u003cbr\u003eelse, struck Master Hickory and threw him overboard, whence, wildly\u003cbr\u003eswimming for his life and carrying Polly on his back, he eventually\u003cbr\u003ereached a Desert Island in the closet. Here the rescued party put up\u003cbr\u003ea tent made of a table cloth providentially snatched from the raging\u003cbr\u003ebillows, and from two o'clock until four, passed six weeks on the\u003cbr\u003eisland supported only by a piece of candle, a box of matches, and\u003cbr\u003etwo peppermint lozenges. It was at this time that it became\u003cbr\u003enecessary to account for Polly's existence among them, and this was\u003cbr\u003eonly effected by an alarming sacrifice of their morality; Hickory\u003cbr\u003eand Wan Lee instantly became _Pirates_, and at once elected Polly as\u003cbr\u003etheir Queen. The royal duties, which seemed to be purely maternal,\u003cbr\u003econsisted in putting the Pirates to bed after a day of rapine and\u003cbr\u003ebloodshed, and in feeding them with liquorice water through a quill\u003cbr\u003ein a small bottle.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47146481778928,"sku":"2940016096810","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016096810","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}