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“Well, who was screaming terrible curses at us, then?” roared Captain Snatchit.
“Monkeys don’t talk, and parrots–”
He stopped with his mouth open.
His eyes bulged in fury.
Then he turned purple and bellowed like an elephant with toothache.
“There were no ghosts there at all!” he roared. “It was that puffed-up pudding of a
pointless parrot! Neptune!”
He jumped up and down and shook his fist at Parrot Island. “You made a fool out
of me, you odious over-grown budgie!” he yelled. “Well, I’m coming back to get you.
Revenge!”
And all the pirates waved their cutlasses so wildly they nearly cut each others’
ears off, as they echoed their captain’s furious cry:
“Revenge!”
