In a bar's outdoor beer garden,patrons mingle, talk politics,and eat sausagewhile downing beerbeneath an old oak's shade. Among them standsa sultry young woman,accustomed to turning headswherever she goes. Beside her mother,she surveys the crowd,catching the familiar glancesof men who notice her. Then,...

  The Captain was a cripple, patched o’er one o’ his black eyes,     But swaggered still and strutted as he spoke:“We’re going after treasure, lads, -- a worthy pirates’ prize!”     And gave his fearsome beard a hearty stroke.  His...