Attack of the Jack by R.L. Stine

Author:R.L. Stine [Stine, R.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2017-08-26T04:00:00+00:00

I grabbed the rail and gazed down into the water. My stomach felt as if ocean waves were tossing inside me. I had to force myself to breathe.

I turned back to the others. “Now what are we going to do?” I cried. “What will we do without a map?”

“Follow the moon,” Madeline said. “It’s all so easy if you follow the moon.”

Up on the captain’s bridge, I saw Chuckles start another banana. He had one hand on the wheel, spinning it one way, then the other.

“It’s all your fault,” Pepper told his other head.

“No. Your fault,” Salty replied.

“Without a map, we’re lost,” I moaned, shaking my head sadly.

“No, we’re not,” Shawn said. “I think we are okay.”

Everyone turned to him. “Shawn, what do you mean?” I asked.

“I memorized the map,” he answered. “At least, I think I did.”

“I memorized the map, too,” Madeline said. “But I never saw it. I memorized it without seeing it.”

“Clam Island is directly northeast of here,” Shawn said. “If we follow a straight line northeast, we will find it.”

“Sorry,” Salty said, “but sailors don’t say northeast. You have to say nor’ east. If you don’t say nor’ east, we don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“Not true,” Pepper argued.

“We need someone to steer us nor’ east,” I said. “I don’t think Chuckles can do it.”

I glanced at the captain’s bridge. Chuckles was standing on his head now, scratching his stomach.

“Of course Chuckles can’t do it,” Salty said. “Chuckles is a chimpanzee.”

“Well, I can man the wheel,” Pepper said. “I steered many a sailing ship to shore.”

“No, you haven’t,” Salty told his other head.

“I can try,” Pepper replied.

Madeline climbed up to the bridge. She took Chuckles by the hand and led him down. “Chuckles and I are going down to my cabin to have a chat.”

“Hoot hoot hoot,” said Chuckles.

“Maybe we’ll play a game of chess,” Madeline said.

“Hoot hoot.”

“I know what you’re saying,” she told Chuckles. “You don’t enjoy it because I always win. But that’s because you’re a chimp and you don’t know the rules.”

I watched them disappear down the stairs.

Salty and Pepper climbed up to the bridge and took the wheel. They moved it steadily between their hands.

As Shawn and I watched, the two heads tilted up toward the sky and began to sing a sea song into the wind, loud and strong.

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