Curse of the Blue Tattoo

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Curse of the blue tattoo: being an account of the misadventures of Jacky Faber, midshipman and fine lady/L. A. Meyer,

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Title: Curse of the blue tattoo.

Summary: In 1803, after being exposed as a girl and forced to leave her ship, Jacky Faber finds herself attending school in Boston, where, instead of learning to be a lady, she battles her snobbish classmates, roams the city in search of adventure, and learns to ride a horse.

1. Orphans—Fiction. 2. Sex role—Fiction. 3. Friendship—Fiction. 4. Schools—Fiction. 5. Boston (Mass.)—History—19th century—Fiction.

For Annetje, as always,

and for Matthew and Nathaniel

It was a hard comin' I had of it, that's for sure.

It was hard enough comin' up from the brig, the cell down below where they had me kept these past few weeks, squintin' into the light to see all of the dear Dolphin's sailors lined up along the spars of the great masts and in other parts of the riggin', all four hundred of 'em, bless 'em, my mates for the past year and a half, all cheerin' and hallooin' and wavin' me off.

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