by L. A. Meyer
Jacky. It's time.
Come on, girl. Up the ladder and out now. Head high, flags flyin', that's the way we does it, but I knows it ain't gonna wash 'cause I'm half blubberin' already and I knows that soon's I steps out they'll be hollerin' Hooray, Jacky, and Give 'em Hell, Jackeroe, and yes, Bloody Jack, too, and I'll see Tink and Davy and Willy and Liam, and they'll have to pry me off Jaimy whose face I may never see no more—Dear God, please—and I'll try to be brave but I never was really very brave...
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Meyer, L. A. (Louis A.), 1942-
Bloody Jack: being an account of the curious adventures
of Mary "Jacky" Faber, ship's boy/L. A. Meyer
p. cm.
Summary: Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London,
a thirteen-year-old orphan disguises herself as a boy and connives her way
onto a British warship set for high sea adventure in search of pirates.
[1. Orphans—Fiction. 2. Seafaring life—Fiction. 3. Sea stories.
4. Pirates—Fiction. 5. Sex role—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.M9795B1 2002
[Fic]—dc21 2002000759
ISBN 0-15-216731-5
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Printed in the United States of America
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