Fanny Campbell, The Female Pirate Captain: A Tale of The RevolutionBallou, Maturin M. (Maturin Murray)
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Fanny Campbell, The Female Pirate Captain: A Tale of The Revolution
Ballou, Maturin M. (Maturin Murray)
Sea stories; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Fiction; War stories; Women pirates -- Fiction
I could add no small degree of interest to this closing part of my
story, if I could take the reader over the turnpike road leading from
Lynn to Salem, where the old Mansion-house of the Lovell family still
remains, surrounded by well improved and highly cultivated lands, a
herald of the past. It was built by Lovell, and the style is but little
in advance of the earliest mode of architecture in the colonies; but it
is still a stout and commodious house, with every convenience the heart
need desire. We know that the reader who has perused our tale, would
look upon the spot with not a little interest, where Fanny, our heroine,
closed her days, and where the honest Terrence Moony displayed his skill
in gardening, until grey old age laid him quietly on the shelf. When
business or pleasure shall again call you to that vicinity, as you pass
through the town of Lynn, turn off from the common, and take the ‘upper
road,’ by the base of High Rock, and from its summit recall the ‘locale’
of our tale; then pass on through the now thickly settled part of the
town called Wood End, and taking the Northern road, strike again into
the great Eastern turnpike road that passes through Salem, and you will
shortly come upon the Lovell estate. I am vain enough to think that
perhaps some one may be induced to make the trip solely by reason of the
interest I may have created; if so, I can assure them that they will
be richly paid for the labor. If you do it, eschew the railroad, take a
horse and vehicle, and be your own master; go where you like, and return
when you will. This is independence; the deuce take all railroads, say
I, where romance is concerned, for while one is exercised by some very
fine feeling, he may awake from his lethargy, and find that the cars
have very quietly gone off and left him.
And now we must part, gentle reader, and patient too, if thou hast
followed us thus far.
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