Wilf the Mighty Worrier--Battles a Pirate by Georgia Pritchett

Author:Georgia Pritchett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JUV001020 Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / Pirates
Publisher: Quercus

Wilf kissed Stuart.

Stuart nuzzled into Wilf. They did their secret handshake (fourteen times) and Wilf showed Stuart his treasure. He began to feel much, much better. Until . . .

“Ahoy, me hearties, brace the main sail, hoist the Jolly Roger, avast the something or others, fire the cannons!” shouted Alan.

“Sorry,” said Mr. and Mrs. Heartie. “We’re too busy watching The Phantom of the Opera in the theater. Scurvy Steve has organized a special showing.”

“What about everyone else?” asked Alan.

“It’s not a good time right now,” said Dave Everyone, “cuz we’re playing bingo and Cut-throat Cuthbert says you can win a picnic basket.”

“What about the stowaways?” asked Alan.

“It’s just that Tommy the Toothless said he’d teach us how to fold napkins into the shape of a swan,” said Wilf.

“But we’re pirates,” said Alan, “and I’ve spotted another ship in the distance—we’ve got to get those landlubbers, pillage their grog and booty, put it on the poop deck, and shiver me timbers.”

Some of the pirates danced past, doing the conga.

Alan turned to Nigel. “Say something.”

“Hmm?” said Nigel. “Like what?”

Alan sighed. “You know, you know—brace the main sail, grog, booty, shiver me timbers—all that stuff,” said Alan impatiently.

“Lace the chain mail?” asked Nigel.

“Brace the main sail.”

“Chase the main whale?” asked Nigel.

“Brace the main sail,” repeated Alan.

“Race the plane tail?” asked Nigel.

Before Alan could say a very naughty swear word, they caught up with the ship because it turned out that Alan had been looking through his telescope the wrong way, so in fact it wasn’t

a tiny ship, far away,

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