Macoya And The Giant Pirate
By well-wisher
- 538 reads
Once a giant pirate crawled out of the sea. He was so big that he had a ships mast for a wooden leg and a black sail for an eye patch and he set his peg leg on Trinidad and his right foot on Tobago.
And he said to the people of the two islands,
"I challenge every man on these two islands. If any man can defeat me then, from my giant pockets, I'll give him all the treasure of seven sunken spanish galleons but if he fails then I'll skewer him from head to tail, roast him alive and eat him".
Now there were many brave men on the islands and some of them accepted the giants challenge.
But whatever they challenged him to the giant pirate always won because he was stronger than all of them put together and even when one man challenged him to a race, the giant pirates two legs were so long that he outran his opponent in a single stride.
But then a clever, not to mention very brave, little boy called Macoya, from a village of Tobago, had an idea.
He challenged the giant pirate to a limbo dancing contest and he set the bar low enough that it was easy for him to go under it but almost impossible for the giant.
Still, the giant didn't want to admit defeat and so he bent his back so low that his head was almost touching the ground and he started to go under the bar and for a time it looked as if the giant might make it and Macoya worried that he would end up being barbecued.
Fortunately, just as the giant was squeezing his enormous head under the bar, he heard the tinkle of gold and realised that gold coins were falling out of his pockets.
Worried that they would be stolen, the giant became distracted and when he did his long nose bumped against the bar knocking it off of its supports.
Now the giant, although he was evil, nevertheless because he followed the old pirates code had to keep his word and so, instead of roasting Macoya and eating him, he emptied out the treasure of seven sunken spanish galleons from his pockets; a mountain of gold and jewels and he gave it all to Macoya.
After that the Giant went back into the sea, back down to the very bottom where even the meanest sharks and octopus's don't dare to go and he has never been seen or heard of since and the little boy and his family, because they were now very rich, lived happily evermore.
- Log in to post comments