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led them right toâŠ.to what? The blind manâs hungry tiger?
I take a deep breath and plunge ahead, too curious to be smart because if I was smart Iâd
sure be a lot more afraidâŠ
Now I can tell Iâm getting close. I smell the ocean. Or maybe the museum people
Field Trip Pirates --58
are being real genuine with the exhibit and came up some special ocean smells. Just use some
of Hueyâs old socks. That would make a good low tide smell.
The exhibitâs locked up of course. Everybody is downstairs pushing and shoving in
line trying to be first to go through when they open the doors.
* * *
Field Trip Pirates --59
Ms K led her group into the pirate exhibit. All the kids oohed and aahed when they
found out about John King, the nine year old runaway who became a crew member aboard a
famous pirate ship.
The cannons looked pretty cool but they just lay there doing nothing. The kids wanted to
watch pirates firing them, blasting holes in the walls and wrecking stuff, making lots of noise and
smoke. So everybody sort of nodded at the cannons and walked on hoping the next exhibit had
more kick to it.
That was the display of pirate treasure. Expecting to see mountains of gold
and precious gems, The students groaned again in disappointment when they saw the feeble pile
of coins in a glass case.
A sign posted next to the case noted the small amount of actual money found at the
site of the ship. There were several guesses as to what happened. Maybe it was washed away by
currents. Maybe another treasure hunter had beaten the museum experts to the site at an earlier
time, before such things were such a big deal for historyâs sake. Or maybe, the pirates, who
trusted no one, especially one another, hid it somewhere else.
âMaybe their ghosts came and took it away.â One impressionable fifth grader whispered.
The next room showed what was supposed to be a typical pirate tavern with buccaneers
hoisting mugs of rum and singing their yohoho songs. What the kids assumed was a tape
recorded voice came from one of the manikins.
âFifteen men on a dead manâs chest, yohoho and a bottle of rumâ it sang out.
âItâs Johnny Depp.â A kid yelled.
âGimme me some of that rum.â Another chimed in, thinking he was being cool.
Field Trip Pirates --60
There were more glass cases filled with sailing instruments, as well as the frayed remains
of some of the clothes pirates wore. Even the adults were yawning by the time Ms K came to that
display, having insisted on reading every word on every card as she went along since Mr. J was
nowhere to be seen and wasnât doing his usual job of slowing up the field trip.
âAfter all, this is a book club. Reading is what we do.â
After everyone had passed through the tavern scene, the eyes on one of the manikins
moved. Then slowly a hand. Then another manikin stretched a stiff leg, groaning in discomfort
as it did so. Slowly, the two dummies stealthily rose to their feet. They crept out of the light
and into the shadowy corners of the exhibit. One of them opened a hidden door in the wall
behind the display. The pair slipped inside.There to wait for the signal that they were needed.
A third manikin, waited until the pair disappeared. Then he too rose and made his way to
the trap door. He listened a while. Then, satisfied that the others had moved on, he slipped
inside the doorway and quietly followed.
* * *
Field Trip Pirates--61
Huey Dewey and Louis were still no where to be seen but they made their presence felt.
Further along the exhibit, a couple of the younger kids ran crying to Ms K that they were
scared. Ms K explained that the pirates were just manikins but the kids cried. They werenât
afraid of the manikins.
They were afraid of Huey Dewey and Louis.
The boys had paused on the race to follow their special treasure map when they reached a
door way with a curtain hanging down to conceal what was on the other side. The map pointed
them toward what was on the other side of that curtain. They guessed the curtain was there to
hide something cool on the other side. All the goody goods that come to museums would stop at
the curtain. Then theyâd read the sign that advised them to keep out and that would be the end of
their adventure.
But with Huey, that sign might as well have read, âplease enter and do whatever you
want as long as itâs mischiefâ.
The boys were annoyed when they did just that and found themselves in an empty
corridor leading toward another exhibit room in a part of the museum that had been closed for a
long time. It was dark for one thing
Cobwebs hanging down all along the corridor was another clue that no one had been back
here for a while.
The huge rats were the best clue. The rats were pretty much in charge of the area. They
must have recognized some distant relatives come for a visit because they left the boys alone.
The musketeers were afraid to go forward but none of them wanted to admit it so Huey
managed to save the day.
Field Trip Pirates--62
âWe can hang out here, behind this curtain, and scare all the little kids as they pass.â
And thatâs just what they did.
Their first victims, a group of younger students, were soon racing back through the
exhibit like a herd of those animals you see on the safari videos after a lion shows up on the plain
and starts chasing them.
That started Ms. K running around too, flustered and trying to round up the herd.
Meanwhile, the boys had grown bored with that educational experience. They were also
feeling braver thinking that if the rats could go back there so could they. They pushed
through the cobwebs, ignored the eerie squeaking floor, and ran down the corridor that had been
posted off limits.
What they found was better than pirate treasure.
The room was lit by torches. The boys thought the flames coming out of the walls were
neat. They cast a gloomy glow over the room. It was hard to make out at first but at the far end of
the room was a pirate ship.
They immediately ignored the âKeep Offâ sign and climbed aboard. The ship creaked
and moaned like the way Deweyâs old grandpa sounded trying to move after laying on the couch
watching television all afternoon,
No one was watching which for the boys meant that anything goes. So they went wild
and set out exploring the ship, wild kid style. They made the boat rock as they shook it from side
to side.
Had to give it to those idiots, they worked together great as a team.
Then they made bloodcurdling yells and threatened to keelhaul anybody who came
Field Trip Pirates --63
aboard. Of course, they still didnât know what âkeelhaulingâ was. But being natural born bullies
and numbskulls, they were sure to come up with something annoying and pass it off as
keelhauling..
After running a million times in a matter of minutes from top to bottom and from end to
end they got bored being pirates. Theyâd forgotten all about the map and all the treasure and
adventure that awaited the three musketeers at the end of that map.
They decided to play a trick on the rest of the field trip. Theyâd sneak back and take
down the âKeep outâ sign by the curtain. This would be their chance to scare all the little kids.
Settle some scores with a few super nerds like Jason. If they were really lucky, maybe give a
teacher or two a heart attack.
âWeâll keel haul the whole bunch of them as they come through.â Huey announced.
His buds loved the plan.
âBut first, we have to get rid of that sign. And that curtain.â
And somebody had to figure out what keelhauling was, fast.
* * *
Field Trip Pirates --64
The line moving through the exhibit had stopped moving. It couldnât
move forward because a number of heavy cannon and seamenâs chests blocked the path marked
along the exhibition route.
The only way through appeared to be along a dark corridor that hadnât been dusted in a
long time. The adults figured the cobwebs were there for effect. Ghost pirates and all that. They
Rolled their eyes and pretended to be scared to go along with the kids. Then they saw the rats.
No one was in any hurry to go forward since there were lots of rats running around. Since
the line couldnât move forward, it started backing up. Smaller children retreating to the rear
collided with older kids who became annoyed with having stampeding children screaming all
around them and then that whole confused mob began shoving back even farther finally reaching
the slower moving adults who were just as confused as ever.
The teachers tried herding their charges, while the curators ran about looking for the
curtain, hand writing a new âkeep outâ sign and shushing everyone as if the group was disturbing
the pirates or something.
And no sign of Mr. J anywhere.
* * *
Field Trip Pirates--65
Huey and company hadnât counted on a museum curator catching them before they
could keelhaul even one fourth grader.
But there they were, the pride and joy of _____book club looking down at their feet and
shuffling in their clodhopper sneakers while being lectured at by a little old lady who didnât
come up to the shoulders of any of them.
Suddenly, her speech was interrupted by a noise from below deck on board the ship. The
curator, figured it was another juvenile delinquent. She got ready to pinch another boy by the ear
but instead, didnât she get a surprise.
âAvast me hearties. Belay that wenchâs squall.â A voice growled at them from the
shadows. The boys turned to face a grinning skeleton leering back at them. Lights flashed and
flares fired up behind the skeleton so the boys could just make out the outline of a face that
looked like the jolly roger on the pirate flag.
They drew back. Each boy wanted to
led them right toâŠ.to what? The blind manâs hungry tiger?
I take a deep breath and plunge ahead, too curious to be smart because if I was smart Iâd
sure be a lot more afraidâŠ
Now I can tell Iâm getting close. I smell the ocean. Or maybe the museum people
Field Trip Pirates --58
are being real genuine with the exhibit and came up some special ocean smells. Just use some
of Hueyâs old socks. That would make a good low tide smell.
The exhibitâs locked up of course. Everybody is downstairs pushing and shoving in
line trying to be first to go through when they open the doors.
* * *
Field Trip Pirates --59
Ms K led her group into the pirate exhibit. All the kids oohed and aahed when they
found out about John King, the nine year old runaway who became a crew member aboard a
famous pirate ship.
The cannons looked pretty cool but they just lay there doing nothing. The kids wanted to
watch pirates firing them, blasting holes in the walls and wrecking stuff, making lots of noise and
smoke. So everybody sort of nodded at the cannons and walked on hoping the next exhibit had
more kick to it.
That was the display of pirate treasure. Expecting to see mountains of gold
and precious gems, The students groaned again in disappointment when they saw the feeble pile
of coins in a glass case.
A sign posted next to the case noted the small amount of actual money found at the
site of the ship. There were several guesses as to what happened. Maybe it was washed away by
currents. Maybe another treasure hunter had beaten the museum experts to the site at an earlier
time, before such things were such a big deal for historyâs sake. Or maybe, the pirates, who
trusted no one, especially one another, hid it somewhere else.
âMaybe their ghosts came and took it away.â One impressionable fifth grader whispered.
The next room showed what was supposed to be a typical pirate tavern with buccaneers
hoisting mugs of rum and singing their yohoho songs. What the kids assumed was a tape
recorded voice came from one of the manikins.
âFifteen men on a dead manâs chest, yohoho and a bottle of rumâ it sang out.
âItâs Johnny Depp.â A kid yelled.
âGimme me some of that rum.â Another chimed in, thinking he was being cool.
Field Trip Pirates --60
There were more glass cases filled with sailing instruments, as well as the frayed remains
of some of the clothes pirates wore. Even the adults were yawning by the time Ms K came to that
display, having insisted on reading every word on every card as she went along since Mr. J was
nowhere to be seen and wasnât doing his usual job of slowing up the field trip.
âAfter all, this is a book club. Reading is what we do.â
After everyone had passed through the tavern scene, the eyes on one of the manikins
moved. Then slowly a hand. Then another manikin stretched a stiff leg, groaning in discomfort
as it did so. Slowly, the two dummies stealthily rose to their feet. They crept out of the light
and into the shadowy corners of the exhibit. One of them opened a hidden door in the wall
behind the display. The pair slipped inside.There to wait for the signal that they were needed.
A third manikin, waited until the pair disappeared. Then he too rose and made his way to
the trap door. He listened a while. Then, satisfied that the others had moved on, he slipped
inside the doorway and quietly followed.
* * *
Field Trip Pirates--61
Huey Dewey and Louis were still no where to be seen but they made their presence felt.
Further along the exhibit, a couple of the younger kids ran crying to Ms K that they were
scared. Ms K explained that the pirates were just manikins but the kids cried. They werenât
afraid of the manikins.
They were afraid of Huey Dewey and Louis.
The boys had paused on the race to follow their special treasure map when they reached a
door way with a curtain hanging down to conceal what was on the other side. The map pointed
them toward what was on the other side of that curtain. They guessed the curtain was there to
hide something cool on the other side. All the goody goods that come to museums would stop at
the curtain. Then theyâd read the sign that advised them to keep out and that would be the end of
their adventure.
But with Huey, that sign might as well have read, âplease enter and do whatever you
want as long as itâs mischiefâ.
The boys were annoyed when they did just that and found themselves in an empty
corridor leading toward another exhibit room in a part of the museum that had been closed for a
long time. It was dark for one thing
Cobwebs hanging down all along the corridor was another clue that no one had been back
here for a while.
The huge rats were the best clue. The rats were pretty much in charge of the area. They
must have recognized some distant relatives come for a visit because they left the boys alone.
The musketeers were afraid to go forward but none of them wanted to admit it so Huey
managed to save the day.
Field Trip Pirates--62
âWe can hang out here, behind this curtain, and scare all the little kids as they pass.â
And thatâs just what they did.
Their first victims, a group of younger students, were soon racing back through the
exhibit like a herd of those animals you see on the safari videos after a lion shows up on the plain
and starts chasing them.
That started Ms. K running around too, flustered and trying to round up the herd.
Meanwhile, the boys had grown bored with that educational experience. They were also
feeling braver thinking that if the rats could go back there so could they. They pushed
through the cobwebs, ignored the eerie squeaking floor, and ran down the corridor that had been
posted off limits.
What they found was better than pirate treasure.
The room was lit by torches. The boys thought the flames coming out of the walls were
neat. They cast a gloomy glow over the room. It was hard to make out at first but at the far end of
the room was a pirate ship.
They immediately ignored the âKeep Offâ sign and climbed aboard. The ship creaked
and moaned like the way Deweyâs old grandpa sounded trying to move after laying on the couch
watching television all afternoon,
No one was watching which for the boys meant that anything goes. So they went wild
and set out exploring the ship, wild kid style. They made the boat rock as they shook it from side
to side.
Had to give it to those idiots, they worked together great as a team.
Then they made bloodcurdling yells and threatened to keelhaul anybody who came
Field Trip Pirates --63
aboard. Of course, they still didnât know what âkeelhaulingâ was. But being natural born bullies
and numbskulls, they were sure to come up with something annoying and pass it off as
keelhauling..
After running a million times in a matter of minutes from top to bottom and from end to
end they got bored being pirates. Theyâd forgotten all about the map and all the treasure and
adventure that awaited the three musketeers at the end of that map.
They decided to play a trick on the rest of the field trip. Theyâd sneak back and take
down the âKeep outâ sign by the curtain. This would be their chance to scare all the little kids.
Settle some scores with a few super nerds like Jason. If they were really lucky, maybe give a
teacher or two a heart attack.
âWeâll keel haul the whole bunch of them as they come through.â Huey announced.
His buds loved the plan.
âBut first, we have to get rid of that sign. And that curtain.â
And somebody had to figure out what keelhauling was, fast.
* * *
Field Trip Pirates --64
The line moving through the exhibit had stopped moving. It couldnât
move forward because a number of heavy cannon and seamenâs chests blocked the path marked
along the exhibition route.
The only way through appeared to be along a dark corridor that hadnât been dusted in a
long time. The adults figured the cobwebs were there for effect. Ghost pirates and all that. They
Rolled their eyes and pretended to be scared to go along with the kids. Then they saw the rats.
No one was in any hurry to go forward since there were lots of rats running around. Since
the line couldnât move forward, it started backing up. Smaller children retreating to the rear
collided with older kids who became annoyed with having stampeding children screaming all
around them and then that whole confused mob began shoving back even farther finally reaching
the slower moving adults who were just as confused as ever.
The teachers tried herding their charges, while the curators ran about looking for the
curtain, hand writing a new âkeep outâ sign and shushing everyone as if the group was disturbing
the pirates or something.
And no sign of Mr. J anywhere.
* * *
Field Trip Pirates--65
Huey and company hadnât counted on a museum curator catching them before they
could keelhaul even one fourth grader.
But there they were, the pride and joy of _____book club looking down at their feet and
shuffling in their clodhopper sneakers while being lectured at by a little old lady who didnât
come up to the shoulders of any of them.
Suddenly, her speech was interrupted by a noise from below deck on board the ship. The
curator, figured it was another juvenile delinquent. She got ready to pinch another boy by the ear
but instead, didnât she get a surprise.
âAvast me hearties. Belay that wenchâs squall.â A voice growled at them from the
shadows. The boys turned to face a grinning skeleton leering back at them. Lights flashed and
flares fired up behind the skeleton so the boys could just make out the outline of a face that
looked like the jolly roger on the pirate flag.
They drew back. Each boy wanted to
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