"Captain Scraggs threw his brown derby on the deck
and leaped upon it."
CAPTAIN SCRAGGS
OR
THE GREEN-PEA PIRATES
BY PETER B. KYNE
AUTHOR OF CAPPY RICKS, THE LONG CHANCE,
THE VALLEY OF THE GIANTS,
WEBSTER—MAN'S MAN, Etc.
ILLUSTRATED BY
GORDON GRANT
GROSSET & DUNLAPPUBLISHERS NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1919, BY
PETER B. KYNE
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES
AT
THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N.Y.
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY THE SUNSET MAGAZINE
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CHAPTER I
They had seen the fog rolling down the coast shortly after theMaggie had rounded Pilar Point at sunset and headed north.Captain Scraggs has been steamboating too many unprofitable yearson San Francisco Bay, the Suisun and San Pablo sloughs anddogholes and the Sacramento River to be deceived as to thecharacter of that fog, and he remarked as much to Mr. Gibney."We'd better