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The Pirate’s Parrot

Chapter One

“Shiver me timbers!” roared Captain Snatchit, swinging his cutlass around his
head.

“Shiver me timbers!” squawked Neptune from the Captain’s shoulder, ducking to

avoid the cutlass.
“There’s a ship on the horizon. Raise the anchor, you scabby guttersnipes!”

bellowed the Captain at his crew.
“Jump to it, shark-bait!” screeched Neptune.

Swearing and cursing, the pirate crew pulled up the anchor. Their boat, the
Seaslug, began to lurch through the waves.

Neptune flew to the top of the tallest mast to look for the other ship.

“It’s a big one!” he squawked down to Captain Snatchit. “It’s the biggest scabby

ship in the whole scabby sea!”
“Hoist the sails, you plug-ugly rabble!” yelled the Captain at his crew. “We’ll be

rich by tea-time!”

“Speed up, you lazy lobsters!” screamed Neptune.
The pirates began to hoist the sails. Neptune swayed on his high perch as the

Seaslug tossed and rolled.