Brush with Privateers illustrator-Sinem Erkas Here I started out to

Here I started out to call on that pretty little Miss Pollywog and now by the time I arrive just look at her

Thea learns that there’s a curse on the Stone that causes anyone who tries to make it to lose their sanity

saying her name thirteen times

and self-reliance in gorgeous prose that reads like poetry

and thinking like engineers

Brush with Privateers illustrator-Sinem Erkas Here I started out toBROWNE, Gordon. A Brush with Privateers. Original pen and ink drawing measuring 5. 5 x 8 and matted to 10. 5 by 14. Initialed by the artist, Gordon Browne, in the lower right corner. Original illustration for the frontispiece of G. A. Hentys With Clive in India [London: Blackie, 1884]. A wonderful nautical battle scene illustration by the prolific British childrens book artist. Brownes first published work accompanied G. A. Hentys 1882 novel Facing