When your play is finished, you may possibly wish to have it acted before the class.  A few turbans, sashes, and weapons will be sufficient to give an air of piracy to the group of players.  Some grim black mustaches would complete the effect.

=A Pirate Story=:—­Tell an old-fashioned “yarn” of adventure, in which a modest hero relates his own experiences.  Give your imagination a good deal of liberty.  Do not waste much time in getting started, but plunge very soon into the actual story.  Let your hero tell how he fell among the pirates.  Then go on with the conversation that ensued—­the threats, the boasting, and the bravado.  Make the hero report his struggles, or the tricks that he resorted to in order to outwit the sea-rovers.  Perhaps he failed at first and got into still greater dangers.  Follow out his adventures to the moment of his escape.  Make your descriptions short and vivid; put in as much direct conversation as possible; keep the action brisk and spirited.  Try to write a lively tale that would interest a group of younger boys.

COLLATERAL READINGS

To Have and to Hold Mary Johnston
Prisoners of Hope " "
The Long Roll " "
Cease Firing " "
Audrey " "
The Virginians W.M.  Thackeray
White Aprons Maude Wilder Goodwin
The Gold Bug Edgar Allan Poe
Treasure Island R.L.  Stevenson
Kidnapped " "
Ebb Tide " "
Buccaneers and Pirates of our Coast Frank R. Stockton
Kate Bonnett " "
Drake Julian Corbett
Drake and his Yeomen James Barnes
Drake, the Sea-king of Devon G.M.  Towle
Raleigh " "
Red Rover J.F.  Cooper
The Pirate Walter Scott
Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
Two Years before the Mast R.H.  Dana
Tales of a Traveller (Part IV) Washington Irving
Nonsense Novels (chapter 8) Stephen Leacock
The Duel (in The Master of Ballantrae,
  chapter 4) R.L.  Stevenson
The Lost Galleon (poem) Bret Harte
Stolen Treasure Howard Pyle
Jack Ballister’s Fortunes " "
Buried Treasure R.B.  Paine
The Last Buccaneer (poem) Charles Kingsley
The Book of the Ocean Ernest Ingersoll
Ocean Life in the Old Sailing-Ship Days J.D.  Whidden