No. II
APPLETON LITTLE THEATRE PLAYS
Edited by Grace Adams
BIMBO, THE PIRATE
BIMBO 
THE PIRATE
A Comedy
By
BOOTH TARKINGTON
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
NEW YORK 
LONDON MCMXXVI
COPYRIGHT, 1926, BY
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
All Rights Reserved
This play is fully protected by the copyright law, all conditionsof which have been complied with. Permission foramateur production without the usual royalty charges, may beobtained by writing to the Editor of The Ladies’ HomeJournal, Philadelphia, Pa.
The professional stage rights are reserved by the author.For permission to produce the play professionally, applicationmust be made to Booth Tarkington, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Copyright, 1924, by The Curtis Publishing Company
Copyright, 1925, by Doubleday, Page and Company
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
CHARACTERS
Robert
Lydia
The Gunner
Deuteronomy Bimbo
Driscoll
STAGE PLAN FOR “BIMBO”
BIMBO, THE PIRATE
Note: “Visit the old jail and see the pirate Trickey’s Biblestill preserved there.”—Description of York Village, Me.
“The ‘Articles’ [rules for the government of George Lowther’spirate ship] were sworn to ... on a Bible.... We have anArticle which we are sworn to, which is, not to force any marriedMan to serve us.... No gaming for money at cards or dicewas allowed under any circumstances. No women were allowedon board.... When a vessel was captured, if a woman wasfound on board a sentinel was placed over her immediately....First, You are to keep such good Orders among your saidBriganteen’s Company that Swearing, Drunkenness and Prophanessbe avoided, or duly Punished; And that God be dulywors