When I grow up I want to be a pirate

I’ve just got back from a visit to my friends on the Sea Wolf. They were sitting round Peter’s stew pot (which smelt like old pants!) and telling stories about when they first knew they wanted to be a pirate.

Harry Hopp said he got a wooden leg for Christmas when he was five.

Fernando said that when he was three he used to row round the local pond in a bath tub and shout AVAST at the fishes.

Ben claimed that he never had a cradle when he was a baby. He slept in an old pirate’s hat.

Well I wasn’t going to be beaten. I told them that my mother heard me singing ‘Yo ho ho and a bottle of milk’ before I was born!