Attack on the High Seas! by Brian James

Author:Brian James
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2010-12-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

Ships Ahoy!

The next morning, I was sitting on my bunk as the sun was waking up. The ship was quiet except for Inna’s snoring and Gary’s sleepy sniffling. Aaron and Vicky were asleep in their bunks, too.

They were all tuckered out from doing homework the night before. We had practiced and practiced until our fingers were sore. But still, not even one of us had been able to get that knot to tie the right way.

I didn’t want to spend another day working on it. So I reached under my pillow and took out my practice rope. I made four loops like Rotten Tooth had shown us. That was the easy part. Then came the hard part. I had to pull the center loops back through the other loops and turn them from front to back. It made my brain dizzy just thinking about it. And when I was done, my finger was caught in one of the loops. I had to start all over again.

I made a growly noise.

“Knots are not fun,” I mumbled.

I made four more loops and was about to try the twisty-turning thing when I saw something out of the porthole. It looked like it might be another ship. Maybe the Filthy Sails was coming for us after all.

I pressed my face up to the glass and took a longer peek. I didn’t see anything.

I peeked to the front side.

Then I peeked to the back side.

I only saw waves. It must have been my imagination.

When I peeked at my lap side, I couldn’t believe what I saw! While I was doing all that peeking, I’d tied a perfect Sheepshank Man-o’-War knot! I forgot all about the ship I thought I saw.

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