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1. Then they had gone to the Bonny Bridge riding club in Millbrook road, a mere half a mile from the American Embassy, and commandeered a few horses
2. And the bonny boat was one
3. The shire’s largest town, Alloa, boasted the largest whisky storage facility in the kingdom, several bonny kirks preaching John Knox’s brand of Calvinistic misery, a woollen garment factory, and all the usual amenities including a fine indoor public swimming pool, gymnasium and exotic Turkish bath
4. Piers then started the engine and I got in and off we went with Des O’Connor crooning ‘Speed bonny boat like a bird on the wing, onward the sailors cry, carry the lad that’s born to be king, over the sea to Skye’, and Roger whistling away like a demented nightingale
5. The front display windows, dusty and cracked, were pasted with yellowing ancient Kodak posters featuring bonny healthy beauties of another era
6. Such bonny progress could only be a premonition of the perfect storm that was brewing, and the contrast between the amicableness of the first weeks cruising and the sudden psychopathy of the cyclone that struck the ship unawares only served to add to the superstitious misgivings of the sailors on board as the storm heightened
7. Every now and then, bonny girls walked over to try and get Hunter to join in the dancing, but he declined and the girls were often chased away by a cold glare by Sophie
8. The last child was also a boy, fair and bonny
9. Presently one, a bonny dark hussy, leaned to him and said:
10. "A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad," I continued, "if you were a regular black; and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly
11. Bonny bird; wheeling over our heads in the middle of the moor
12. "Now, my bonny lad, you are mine! And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!"
13. "Nay," said the servant, "don't be hard on the bonny lass, Mrs
14. The red firelight glowed on their two bonny heads, and revealed their faces animated with the eager interest of children; for, though he was twenty-three and she eighteen, each had so much of novelty to feel and learn, that neither experienced nor evinced the sentiments of sober disenchanted maturity
15. He might have thrown a dozen if he had but left my bonny bird alone
16. Who would have thought that this affair was to prove to me the means of an easy riddance of Mr Hickery? But so it turned out; for whether or not there was any foundation for the traffickings with him which she pretended, he never could abide to hear the story alluded to, which, when I discerned, I took care, whenever he showed any sort of inclination to molest the council with his propugnacity, to joke him about his bonny sweetheart, “the Tappit-hen,” and he instantly sang dumb, and quietly slipped away; by which it may be seen how curiously events come to pass, since, out of the very first cause of his thwarting me in the lamps, I found, in process of time, a way of silencing him far better than any sort of truth or reason
17. Queen Mary’s part was done by a bonny genty young lady, that was said to have run away from a boarding-school, and, by all accounts, she acted wonderful well
18. In the first frame, my Dad and his singing colleague Larry Gretton are lined up with a row of bonny bathing belles, obviously having played judge in the beauty contest
19. In other words, the contract you purchase won’t be for 1,000 barrels of Nigerian Bonny Light, another grade of crude oil
20. “On the Contrary, Lads,” Lancelot said, warming to the Subject, “have ye ne’er heard tell o’ Mary Read an’ Annie Bonny? They were as fierce a Brace o’ Hellcats as e’er sail’d the Seven Seas an’ braver than most Men! ’Tis true that Annie Bonny was an Irish-born Wench, not English, an’ rais’d in America, too, which perhaps accounts for her well-known fierce Temper
21. When her fickle Mate, Jim Bonny, turn’d Informer ’gainst the Pyrates o’ New Providence, she ran off with Jack Rackham, the Pyrate King, an’ sail’d the Seas with him instead
22. I’ve heard tell o’ ‘The Bonny Bitch’ from many a Pyrate an’ none that saw her fail’d to honour her as brave
23. “Can I believe me Eyes? ’Tis Annie Bonny, as I live an’ breathe! ’Tis the beauteous Pyrate Queen herself!”
24. “Fer as the Tale is told,” Bonny continu’d, “me Father had been married to a Lady o’ some Estate in County Cork, an’ she had gone away fer a Change o’ Air after her Lyin’-in, whereupon he took this Opportunity to pay Court to Peg Brennan, the Maid, fer whom he felt a Hot Attraction
25. “An’ so,” Anne Bonny went on, “when the Mistress o’ the House return’d, the first Thing she was told was o’ the missin’ Spoons, which me Mother had ne’er chanced to find because she was sleepin’ with the Master o’ the House! But sure she did not tell the Mistress that! Rather, she said that the Spoons were taken by her Tanner Lover, that she herself had call’d a Constable, but that the Tanner then had run away an’ no one knew his Whereabouts! So much was true, but what me Mother did not know was that the Tanner came that very Afternoon, confess’d his Theft o’ the Spoons to the Mistress o’ the House, but said he’d done it but in jest, an’ return’d ’em forthwith to the Maid’s Bed
26. “Well may ye ask,” Anne Bonny says
27. Thus could Anne Bonny defend herself when she did not fancy a Man, but when she fancied one, she also had her Way with him
28. ’Twould have seem’d to me that Bonny had sufficient Liberty at Home in Charlestown ne’er to seek to leave her Father’s Plantation; yet, as e’en the freest Persons account themselves caged if they have licentious Appetites, Anne was determin’d to fly the Nest
29. Whereupon she and her Husband, James Bonny, took Ship to that great Pyrates’ Lair in the Bahama Isles, the notorious New Providence
30. Bonny goes about her Pleasure with such high Animal Spirits that ’tis quite infectious; and ere long, e’en Lancelot and I have join’d ’em upon the Floor! As Bonny and Horatio pant and buck, seeking the Summit of Love’s sensual Pleasure, I fondle Bonny’s Breasts, and Lancelot strokes Horatio’s sable Back
31. “Not a Week past,” says Bonny
32. “I’d be careful, Lads,” says Bonny, “’twas not far from there that Blackbeard himself was fell’d in the shallow Shoals of Ocacock Inlet…
33. Whereupon, with greatest Generosity and Open-heartedness, Bonny offer’d us all her Charts and Maps of Charlestown Harbour, the Bahama Isles, and e’en the Caribee
34. “I’d always help a Sister Pyrate in Distress,” said Annie Bonny, suddenly becoming the finest, bravest Woman I’d e’er met in all my Life
35. ’Twas Dusk when Annie Bonny left us on the High Seas, accompanied by the same twelve Pyrates who had leapt aboard our Ship with so much Menace
36. O as I saw her depart, I was full of Admiration for this Pyrate Queen! How could I have thought her low and common when she was such a true Sister of the Seas! What Generosity of Spirit! What Magnanimity of Heart! Annie Bonny was all Things, thought I, save a Hypocrite
37. O ’tis said that Men cannot be rap’d, but Bonny prov’d it untrue! My Woman’s Heart knew not whether to salute her Cunning or damn her as a scheming Bitch! I ponder’d to myself, yet for the Life of me I could not damn her
38. She was the Brains behind ’em both! Why, to take in Lancelot and Horatio—those greatest of Great Pyrates—and steal their Treasures by the simple Ruses of Flattery and Lust, ’twas a sort of Genius! Without Jack Rackham, Bonny would ne’er be caught! And where’er she sail’d a Part of me would sail, chearing the World’s chief Female Pyrate!
39. “The Bonny Bitch…
40. “Away with you! All Hands on Deck! The Sails are luffing! Should a Squall come up, we’ll surely founder! There’s Time enough to talk of Bonny later! For the nonce, we’re setting Sail again for Anegado! There’s a Fair Prize coming through the Anegado Passage and I mean to take her!”
41. Suddenly I was fir’d with the Ambition to be like Anne Bonny! I thought that my whole Life long, I had been too timid and Lady-like
42. All the good Things I had gain’d—leaving Lymeworth to seek my Fortune, making my Mutiny within the Brothel, insisting upon my own Terms for being kept by Lord Bellars, becoming Whitehead’s Scribe, altering Lancelot’s Pyrate Articles, learning the Craft of Pyracy itself—were gain’d thro’ killing the Lady in myself and playing the Pyrate! The Lady and the Pyrate! ’Twas as if two people battl’d for Supremacy within my very Soul: one a Vapourish Lady and one a Daring Pyrate, and they were so unlike each other they were scarce on speaking Terms! Whilst the Lady in myself was quiv’ring and quailing in Cowardice, the Pyrate was itching to breathe free! ’Twas the Pyrate who could command a Ship, scale a Shroud in a trice, climb to the Top of a Crow’s-Nest, and scour the Seas expertly with a Spying-Glass! ’Twas the Pyrate who had beguil’d Lord Bellars into keeping me, all unknowing of my True Identity; and ’twas the Pyrate who had earn’d Whitehead’s wary Trust by becoming his Amanuensis! ’Twas the Pyrate who had endur’d a Childbirth few endure, but ’twas the Lady who, in her Guilt and Vapourish Fear, allow’d a Wet-Nurse to tyrannize o’er her and steal the very Jewel of her Existence! ’Twas the Pyrate who amended Lancelot’s Articles, but ’twas the Lady who at first resented Bonny both for her Beauty and for her Freedom! O I must learn from Bonny, not resent her, I thought; for she is what all Women long to be! E’en Chaucer says it thro’ the Wife of Bath: The Fair Sex seeks that “absolute Command / With all the Government of House and Land; / And Empire o’er his Tongue, and o’er his Hand!”
43. To them we gave the Charts that Bonny had given us, wishing ’em God’s Speed!
44. O what a shar’d History we had! And how many Friends in common had we known—from Horatio to Annie Bonny! We shar’d the Pyrate’s Craft, the Robber’s Art, the Oath of Robin Hood, the Love of the Sea, and e’en the mutual Deception by that bonny Pyrate Queen!
45. In this Epick I told all I knew of Sailing Ships and the Spanish Main, of the Travels of a Group of Valiant Pyrates call’d the Merry Men (whom ev’ryone believ’d were mere Inventions of the Poet’s Fancy), of the famous Female Pyrate, Anne Bonny, as well as Slavers, Slaves, the Buccaneers, the Pyrate Round upon the Eastern Seas—which was by then, the latter 1720s, entering the Realm of Legend (and consequently, becoming more and more the Subject of Books and Poems)
46. Anne Bonny, for example, disappears from the history books in 1720
47. This was the package a tanker of Bonny Crude had bought him—and it was a good trade
48. Nigerian troops had moved in on the Bonny Island complex in what was supposed to be a “rescue mission
49. He’s noan feared o’ t’ bench o’ judges, norther Paul, nur Peter, nur John, nur Matthew, nor noan on ’em, not he! He fair likes—he langs to set his brazened face agean ’em! And yon bonny lad Heathcliff, yah mind, he’s a rare ’un
50. He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the unfortunate child on to the table and muttered, with peculiar gusto, ‘Now, my bonny lad, you are mine! And we’ll see if one tree won’t grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!’ The unsuspecting thing was pleased at this speech: he played with