All around me, dead and dying,
I would see my victims lying;
And I'd laugh out loud and louder
As I smelled the blood and powder,
For I'd be a roaring pirate,
Be a swearing, tearing pirate,
Bloody-bones, the heartless pirate,
With a cruel, cruel eye.
SUSAN. I consider Bloody-bones a very sweet name for a young lady
pirate. Very!
PAULINE. Yes, mam. (_curtseys_) So, if it's all the same to you, I'd
like to be a pirate, mam, SUSAN. Certainly. A pirate's life is a very
mannish occupation.
KATE. Wouldn't it be lovely to be a pirate! It is much more interesting
than being a doctor.
PAULINE. Yes, Miss Kate. And there's no scrubbin' on a pirate craft. The
wash of the sea is merely a poetical term. And if the men is drove off
the land, they'll take to ships, do you see, and there'll be plenty of
work for a respectable, blood-thirsty lady pirate to do, catchin' 'em
and extinguishing 'em.
GRACE. Oh, girls, wouldn't it be lovely to be pirates?
SUSAN. Then be pirates! The Militant Suffragettes need a navy as well as
an army. Every revolution needs its privateers.