Ishmael from JT and the Pirates by Wade Bradford
CONTEXT: This salty old pirate sets up the tale of a comic adventure about pirates who travel to a modern day junior high school.
Ishmael:
Avast, ye landlubbers! Cursed be all who cast their eyes upon the stage. Cursed, says I! Ha! Hahahaha! Arg, fooled you, didn’t I?! Don’t worry, you’re not cursed! That was just my way a scaring off the faint of heart. Now that we’ve thinned out their ranks, let’s get down to business. Let me guess. You’ve come looking for a story. But not just any yarn. You want a tale of high adventure. Methinks it might be a pirate story that you’re itching for. Well, it just so happens that I know the most exciting tale of swashbucklers and scallywags ever to linger on the tip of a storyteller’s tongue. Now, most pirate stories start out on the high seas, but this one begins in one of the most fearful and perplexing places in the world: Junior High School.
