Show ELMO SCOTT WATSON petern onion captain Wor leys short career T HE career of captain worley as a pirate wao a short but extremely busy one worley began his life as a pirate in september 1718 he assembled a company of eight des characters in new york secured a small open boat provisioned with a keg of water a few biscuits a dried tongue six old muskets and a small amount ot ammunition and set out for newcastle del there they seized a shallop alun dered it and returned to their own i mall boat in which they sailed back down the river and took a sloop belonging to a mulatto named black robben then they abandoned their boat and sailed away in sloop but a few days later having captured another sloop from hull which was a better boat they changed to this one by this time the news of their ax had spread all along the coast and the government was roused to action H M S phoenix a vessel of 20 guns was sent in search of the pirates but in the meantime worley had sailed or the bahamas where he captured another sloop and a brigantine lne by now the pirate leader had a crew of 25 men and a fast ship off the cape of virginia the pirate lighted wo sloops which be believed were making for the james river in an effort to escape from him in reality they were armed vessels which had been sent out to hunt him down but he little suspected that he sailed his ship in them to cut them off and broke put his black flag tipon seeing this alie citizens of jamestown thought that a fleet of three pirate ships had come to loot the town and they began hurried prep ration to defend it then they were amazed to see the three pirate ships begin fighting among themselves for ome time the battle went on and Wor leys freebooters gave a good ac count of themselves even with the great odds against them then the fighting became band to hand and the pirates except the captain and one other were killed the two were desperately wounded but they lived long enough to be placed on trial and convicted the next day then they were summarily hanged before death from their wounds could save them from just punishment yo ho ho and a bottle of ruml IT PROBABLY levei was sung by any authentic pirate in good and regular standing for its author young E allason wrote it long after the hey day of piracy had passed but the words pirate song conjure up to the average person but one picture and unconsciously there runs through his mind this retrain fifteen men on the dead man s chest yoho yo ho ho and a bot tie of rum 1 here are the words of that immortal song fifteen men on the dead man s chest to ho ho and a bottle of rum drink and the devil bad done tor the rest to ho ho and a bottle of ruml the mate was fixed by the bos n a pike the bos 0 brained with a il cooks throat was marked beelike belike it had been gripped ten and there they lay all good dead men like break 0 day in a booking ken to ho ho and bottle of ruml fifteen men of a whole ships hat to ho ho and a bottle of ruml dead and be damned and the rest one to ho ho and a bottle of burn the skipper lay with his nob in fore where the scullion s ax his cheek had shore and the scullion he was stabbed times tour and there he lay and the boeer skies dripped all day long in eyes at murk sunset and at foul sunrise to ho ho and a bottle of kimt fifteen men of m stiff and stark to ho ho and a bottle of rum ten of the crew had the murder mark to ho bo and a bottle of ruml a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead or a yawning hoi in a battered head and the sc uppers with a rotting red and there they lay aye dawn my eya all lookouts clapped on paradise all souls bound just contrariwise to ho ho and a bottle of rural fifteen men of cm rood and true to ho ho and a bottle of ruml every man jack could ha sailed with old pew to ho ho and a bottle of ruml there was chest on chest full of spanish eold with a ton of plate in the middle hold and the cabin s riot of stuff untold and they lay there that had took the plum with flare and their res struck dumb while we shared all by the rule of thumb to ho ho and a bottle of rump fifteen men on the dead mans chest to ho ho and a bottle of ran I 1 drink and the devil had don for the festl TO an a of we wrapped rn all in a mainsail wl talc MI tons of bawrs imbt kd we heaved m ver and tit of a y heare het aaa a alt aa a bidden am le wn an tk ra f WM W K att x W |