Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1887 — The Pirate’s Son. [ARTICLE]

The Pirate’s Son.

The little story that we are going to tell is about a Pirate’s son and how he turned out. It is very sad to have a boy turn out different from what his parents desire or expect—to take great pains, with his education and then have him go square back on his bringing up. Once there was a Pirate who had an only son. He doted on the boy, and wanted him to grow up and become a credit to his parents, so he spared no expense on his education. He not only tutored the boy at home but sent him to one of the best piratical schools in the country six months in the year. He furnished him with the “Pirate s Own” library, and introduced him to the society of the most distinguished buccaneers in the neighborhood, whose conversation any boy might profit by, but all to no avail, The more that fond parent tried to fix him in the path that would lead to piratical success the more the boy would strive to thwart his wishes.

When he should be learning the quickest method of scuttling a ship or cutting a throat, that boy would be discovered in a corner immersed in a Sun-day-school book, and he would steal away from the society of the most instructive corsairs to attend the meeting of the Young Men’s Christian Association. It is easy to guess the result of all this. The boy continued to disregard the teaching, the remonstrances and even the threats of his father, persisting in following what he weakly called a worthy career, until he finally broke that poor Pirate’s heart, bringing his grey hairs down in sorrow to the grave,— Texas Siftings.