| Show 4 II I THE MORALS OF BIM BIMBO V. V Daggers gleaming from fierce sacks of Spanish doub- doub lone Ions barrels barels of Jamaica rum brawny hands dragging frightened damsels damseN over the rail scuppers running run run- running ning blood whatever that may mean mean mean-a a pirate ship would lose Its It If It were stripped of a single one of at these ruddy and ro romantic romantic ro- ro mantic mantlo trappings And the wise teller storyteller cherishes the legend of the bold bad days when the Spanish Span Span- Span Span-I ish Jab main wa Via was strewn with gold and Jewels and wretched captives walked the plank with never ne a mur mur- mur No one double the ferocity of ot a pirate even though It was tempered tempered tem tern with a It certain alluring gallantry gallantry gallantry gal gal- lantry no one except Booth Tar- Tar kington who vho It seems has been harboring harboring har bar boring suspicions that pirates were probably not at all the romantic fellow that they are painted In fact many of the real pirates es especially especially especially es- es those reared under the In Influence In In- fluence of ot the New ew England conscience conscience conscience con con- science carried their Puritanism to tosea tosea sea with them In a most unromantic unromantic tic manner They read their BIbles Bi Bibles Bl- Bl bles and frowned upon cards or ordice ordice ordice dice prohibited diversions on the tho I Sabbath and prohibited swearIng shearing and profanity on any day at all Mr oIl quotes such Irrefutable irrefutable able evidence as Pirate Trickey's Bible preserved In ir the old York village village vil H vil- vil lage Jail the articles for tOr the government government gov gov- of George Lowthers Lowther's pirate ship and an old source record Narrative Narrative Nar native of a Seaman Captured anI and Forced by Pirates So piracy was not such a romantic romantic romantic roman roman- tic business after all But the illusion sion slon dies hard and takes a last whack at it in his rollicking comedy the little one-act one play Bimbo the Pirate which Doubleday Doubleday Dou- Dou bleday Page Co have published In a volume The Ladles Ladles' Home Journal One act Plays for amateur ama ama- I Bimbo Deuteronomy Bimbo was wasa as a n. pirate pate who upheld the proprieties and his sailor lads were rigidly held to a lI t strict sti-IC New England code a v 5 But how were Lydia and Robert to toI tomake tomake make such fine distinctions in buccaneers buccaneers buc buc- I cancers when they were being dragged dragg d aboard the pirate ship and dumped a dark cabin Nor NorI I were they reassured when Captain Bimbo entered in his neat but ominous ominous omi omi- nou black silk stockings black silk breeches and waistcoat and crimson crimson crim crim- crimson son sash with its eight pistols Nor or yet et when a dumb slave heaped red rca coals Into tl- tl tho brazier a brazier a handy brazier brazier crazier bra bra- zier to torture with What wonder that Robert sprang toward LydIa exclaiming Sweetheart Sweetheart Sweetheart Sweetheart Sweet heart think of oC It calling a woman woman woman wo wo- wo- wo I man Sweetheart on the Sabbath day What frivolity No wonder Bimbo was annoyed especially since the plunder was sixteen score molasses fourteen dozen rum seventeen seventeen sev Ee sev- sev enteen hogshead Jamaica and cured thirteen hundred sixty bushel of grain mildewed and part I useless the tobacco poor quality and arid the molasses dirty It was enough to make a man give up his calling Bimbo took tonIc a dram but it was as not for pleasure Certainly not No one drank rum on Sunday on his ship unless he Were ere cold coid Is- Is sIde What with people expecting to be burned or cast into tho the sea or tortured tortured tor tor- tor- tor tortured in various ingenious and horrible horrible horrible hor hor- manners and their disrespect for tor aU all decent modes of behavior I such as putting their arms around women when It was not necessary I for tor support calling them endearing endear I In ing names and using such blasphemy blasphemy blas- blas phemy blast vItals as your our on the Sabbath there was no hope of I making people comprehend the seriousness se seriousness seriousness se- se of the business of oC f piracy Bimbo shook his head hopelessly ordered his cup-bearer cup an an Auto Auto- bushman bUhman h red cotton coHon pantaloons pan pan- pan t lo 10 sound the trumpets for I prayers and Sunday sermon But In spite of Mr lr attempt to s scotch the pirate legend leend he has invested Bimbo with an undeniable undeniable un- un un undeniable deniable t |
