Who will rescue Jack and Joe, now adrift in a raft on the open sea?

Ralph D. Payne, today on the Classic Tales podcast.

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And now, Blackbeard Buccaneer, part three of eight by Ralph D. Payne.

Chapter 6. The Voyage of the Little Raft

These sturdy youngsters were not easily frightened, and Jack Cockrell, the landsman, was confident

that wind and tide would change to send the little raft

shoreward. So tranquil was the sea that they rode secure and dry upon the cabin hatch,

which was buoyed by the two short spars. Joe Hawbridge was silent, with foreboding of a fate

more bitter than the perils which they had escaped.

He had seen a lone survivor of a crew of pirates picked off a raft in the Caribbean.

A grisly phantom, raving mad, who had nod the flesh of his dead comrades.

They drifted quietly before the land breeze, beneath a sky all jeweled with bright

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