The Gingerbread Pirates

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  1. Happy 2nd Advent German Marto.
  2. Sorry for taking your dad away this weekend, but we have a story for you instead.
  3. This one is called the Gingerbread Pirates.
  4. All right,
  5. just a moment. Well, we get to it.
  6. The gingerbread pirates by kristen clad strip illustrated by matt travers.
  7. It was christmas Eve and Jim and his mother were making gingerbread men.
  8. Let's make a pirate crew,
  9. said jim.
  10. And so they did.
  11. The captain had a gingerbread cutlass and a peg leg made from a toothpick.
  12. Jin loved him. Best of all
  13. you better leave some pirates out for santa claus. D
  14. said his mother,
  15. not Captain Cookie said Jim
  16. at bedtime. Jim took the captain to his room.
  17. I wish you had a ship,
  18. he whispered as he climbed into bed.
  19. Then he lay awake listening for reindeer hooves on the roof.
  20. Captain Cookie seemed to be listening to
  21. Jim. Fell asleep
  22. by Captain Cookie. Went on listening.
  23. Where's my crew? He wondered.
  24. And who's this santa, claus? Who wants to eat them.
  25. When the house was quiet, he switched his countless through the air.
  26. He tested his peg leg,
  27. tap, step,
  28. tap, step, tap, step,
  29. he climbed down into darkness.
  30. Then he ran,
  31. step, tap, step, tap, step, tap,
  32. he ran until he came to a cliff.
  33. He dropped his cutlass over it,
  34. then followed,
  35. he found his cutlass and then
  36. another cliff.
  37. So he did it all again,
  38. one cliff after another
  39. until he reached the bottom.
  40. Then Captain Cookie had a shock.
  41. A mouse was nibbling on his Cutler's
  42. why? It's half gone! Cried the captain.
  43. He grabbed the cutlets and slashed at the air.
  44. Oh, it's ruined, he moans.
  45. And off he went,
  46. stomp, tap, stomp, clap, stomp, tap,
  47. merry christmas called the mouse
  48. christmas. What's that? Thought the captain.
  49. Then he turned a corner and saw something that astonished him.
  50. A huge tree with stars in its branches.
  51. Hoy there! Called the voice.
  52. Looking up. Captain cookies, saw two pirates climbing down toward him.
  53. My crew, he thought
  54. The two men
  55. wavy and doubts by name
  56. dropped to the ground.
  57. They jumped right up, but the captain saw that dots had broken his hand.
  58. No cutlass. And now a wounded man.
  59. He thought
  60. just then there was a thump
  61. and a scrape
  62. A black cloud puff toward them.
  63. Run! Shouted the captain.
  64. They ran until they had to stop for breath.
  65. Who was there? S dance?
  66. Must be that cannibal santa claus! Said Captain cookie.
  67. We've got to get out of here before he eats us.
  68. Where's the rest of the crew
  69. upon that cliff, I think, said wavy.
  70. Start climbing men! Said the captain.
  71. Up they went,
  72. they're in jail! Cried dots when he reached the top.
  73. Save us! Cried, They're pirates,
  74. waving dots, kicked at the prison walls.
  75. They tried in vain to move the roof.
  76. What about a rope and pulley from the ship? Said wavy.
  77. What about the ship's cannons, dots.
  78. There is no ship, said the captain.
  79. Then he noticed a strange look on wave, his face
  80. and the world around.
  81. What he saw made him wish for his cutlass.
  82. A gigantic man was leaning over them.
  83. Young jim always leaves me, leaves cookies for me, he said,
  84. but the plate was empty, so I came in here,
  85. look out, boys, ordered the captain.
  86. The big man lifted the prison roof and peered end.
  87. Don't you eat my crew? Shot at the captain, raising his fists.
  88. The big man linked.
  89. This is your crew, he said.
  90. Yes, said the captain. And who are you?
  91. I am santa claus and I swear by my sleigh, I won't eat your men
  92. slay.
  93. What's that?
  94. Some kind of ship
  95. that's right,
  96. swears by his ship.
  97. Can't be all bad,
  98. thought the captain.
  99. Still, he was suspicious.
  100. What are you doing here?
  101. He asked.
  102. Why it's christmas,
  103. christmas?
  104. Said Captain cookie.
  105. I wish someone would tell me what that is.
  106. Santa claus laughed.
  107. Follow me, he said, I'll show you a bit of christmas
  108. back beside the starlet tree.
  109. The pirates watched as santa claus reached into an enormous bag.
  110. Whatever you got there, the captain began.
  111. It's a ship, baby shouted.
  112. And the next thing Captain cookie knew as men were swarming its decks and rigging.
  113. There's canons, Cutlasses cried, dots,
  114. the sky, glittered with stars.
  115. The captain rubbed his eyes.
  116. Real pirates, he thought, and a real ship.
  117. He turned to look back
  118. merry christmas,
  119. he called.
  120. That santa claus was already gone
  121. on christmas. Morning jim's mother found an empty plate on the mantle
  122. looks like santa claus. Found the gingerbread men. She said
  123. a gym was admiring his presence.
  124. His favorite was the pirate ship.
  125. It's pirate crew.
  126. The captain had a cutlass
  127. and a peg leg
  128. and Jin loved him best of all
  129. the end.
  130. So
  131. we hope
  132. so. We hope you like the story, especially since the main character was Jim
  133. Yeah. And have a happy advent. A second advent. Yeah. Bye.