L. Frank Baum - Oz 25 by Pirates In Oz

Author:Pirates In Oz
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-11-20T13:11:03+00:00

CHAPTER 11

The No Bodies

NO land had been sighted for two days but Peter found it vastly exciting skimming over the mountainous green waves of the Nonestic Ocean. There was enough to do with the sails alone to keep four or five able-bodied seamen busy, and all on board the pirate’s ship worked as they had never worked before. But not for anything in the world or Oz would Peter have traded his position as cabin boy and mate on the Crescent Moon. Sometimes, when the sea was calm and everything shipshape, Roger would read them stories from Ato’s books or the volumes they had brought from Shell City. Sometimes Samuel Salt would tell of his many strange voyages or Peter would relate his adventures in

Oz.

“It was on this very ocean that I first met the Gnome King,” mused Peter, as he and Samuel were mending a sail one morning. “He was on a rocky island and I was dropped there by a balloon bird. Then there was a sea-quake and we got off the island on an old pirate ship that was thrown up from the bottom of the sea. Did you ever know Polacky, Samuel?” Samuel Salt shook his head thoughtfully.

“Well, anyway,” went on Peter, “it was his ship, but it was pretty well done for, so we just

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