Master and Commander- Gone Rum
Barret Bonden leaned over the stern of the ship, pole in hand. He tossed the line into the pale eddying water and watched it sink with an unnoticeable plop. Within a few minutes, he felt a sharp tug on the pole.
"Hullo!" he said excitedly. "I caught a fish!" But when he hauled the unusually heavy catch up, it was a boot.
"Hullo, we caught a boot!" he said. "We can't have fried boot for supper."
"What?" said the Captain Jack Aubrey.
"I thought I was supposed to drive the ship," said Barret, crestfallen.
"No," said the captain. "I am. You stand over there and look useful."
"Yes sir," said Barret, taking his place near the helm. Suddenly, they heard cannon fire.
"Acheron!" Jack cried. "Bring her about and load the cannons!" All of a sudden, the stinky old man who had brain surgery came up and began to laugh.
"He he ha har! I threw the cannons overboard! Ha he har!"
"My pet dragon is attacking my ship!" cried Jack. His pet dragon was big and his name was Fluffy. Barret saw Fluffy while he was hanging over the edge of the ship.
"It's no good!" he said. "The rudder's all shot away!" He grabbed Fluffy and wedged him into the crack to hold the rudder together.
"What do you want us to do?" asked Barret.
"I don't know," said Jack. "Go drive the boat, I mean ship. Oh no! It's sinking! I've had this ship for 1000 years. It's my baby, my 1000 year old baby!" Barret stole the baby and threw it overboard. Then, he got a pole, hooked the baby and reeled it in.
"Hullo," he said. "I caught a fish!"
"No it's not!" said Killick. "It's Jack! How did you get in the water?"
"The stinky old man is pushing everything overboard!" panted Jack as he was hauled aboard.
"Har he ho ha!" laughed the stinky old man.
Finis
