Frederic has been apprenticed to pirates by his deaf nurse who misheard an instruction to apprentice him to a pilot. Now in his 21st year his apprenticeship is over and he can rejoin respectable society but then he finds out that as his birthday is on the 29th of February he must remain a pirates apprentice till his 21st birthday. What is he to do? Find out what happens to Fredric, the pirates, a militarily ignorant Major General and the Majors General many beautiful, but un married, daughters.
Frederic has been apprenticed to pirates by his deaf nurse who misheard an instruction to apprentice him to a pilot. Now in his 21st year his apprenticeship is over and he can rejoin respectable society but then he finds out that as his birthday is on the 29th of February he must remain a pirates apprentice till his 21st birthday. What is he to do? Find out what happens to Fredric, the pirates, a militarily ignorant Major General and the Majors General many beautiful, but un married, daughters.