Posted by Andy on November 20, 2011 at 01:16:11 user AndyG.
"And then he tried to marry my daughters, thinking he'd get one of them to wheedle what he wanted out of me. He had a try at one and then another. But my daughters has more sense to be marrying Black Jakes..."
I just noticed this last night. It's from Peter Duck winding up his yarn. But I wonder if Ransome wrote this and thought, perhaps, of the Collingwood girls: his Bohemian years were certainly a little bit piratical, and he'd tried wooing both!
Andy