the August noon
`` And I 'm the cannibal and baby 's the stolen princess , '' said Kent . The three children plunged into the game which is the common property of childhood . For a time , bloody captures , savage orgies , escape , pursuit , looting of great ships and burial of treasure , transformed the quiet shore to a theater of high crime . At last , as the August noon waxed high , and the hostage princess fell fast asleep in her perambulator cave , the cannibal , who had shifted to captured duke , bowed before the pirate . `` Sir , '' he said in a deep voice , `` I have bethought myself of still further treasure which if you will allow me to go after in my trusty boat , I will get and bring to you -- if you will allow me to say farewell at that time to my wife and babes . '' `` Ha ! '' returned the pirate .