Excerpt from Capitol Jokes of the Legislative Session of 1901 It was in the time of Queen Elizabeth and Sir Wal ter Raleigh. Queen Elizabeth heard from one source and another of this wonderful pirate queen, and sent a eet out to capture her and bring her to London in chains. But Grace was too resourceful. When she heard that the eet was coming she held her brigands in hiding until the hostile ships had arrived and had moored near the island. Then at night she sent a merchantman that she had captured into the eet with ...
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Excerpt from Capitol Jokes of the Legislative Session of 1901 It was in the time of Queen Elizabeth and Sir Wal ter Raleigh. Queen Elizabeth heard from one source and another of this wonderful pirate queen, and sent a eet out to capture her and bring her to London in chains. But Grace was too resourceful. When she heard that the eet was coming she held her brigands in hiding until the hostile ships had arrived and had moored near the island. Then at night she sent a merchantman that she had captured into the eet with the crew instructed to act like the sailors of a peaceful trade ship. Well, the captain of the crew conferred with the admiral of the eet, told him that the mer chantman had almost been captured by the pirate queen, and offered to pilot the eet where it could cap ture Queen Grace. The consequences were that the captain ran the whole eet on the rocks, admiral and all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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