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Little Hirundo was a boy who had always 

wanted to be a pirate. He lived in an eleven 

walled house by the bridge of a mighty river.

When playing in the attic one day, Hirundo 

found an old pirate map and sword that used 

to be his grandfather's. "So I am a pirate!" 

Hirundo couldn't be happier. He took his 

rowboat and headed left down the river in 

search of adventure.

Before long, Hirundo spied a tree with green 

bark on his left. There were all kinds of crazy 

noises coming from it. He heard voices, 

cannons firing, even dogs barking! When he 

went to look around the tree to see what could  

be making those noises, a parrot flew to his 

shoulder. "I'm looking more like a pirate 

already," said Hirundo.

Not too far down the river on the right, his 

parrot saw a bird house in a grouping of four 

trees and wanted to stop. "We don't have 

time," Hirundo said. But his bird wanted to say 

goodbye to his girlfriend in case he never got 

to see her again. So Hirundo consented. 

Neither knew that an angry octopus lurked on 

the right side of the trees. Hirundo drew his 

sword and battled the octopus until the 

octopus was struck and went crying home to 

mommy.

Boy and bird continued following their map 

down river. They came to a corner that 

contained two beaver houses. Before making 

that turn, they spied two trees making an 

entryway. Behind the first tree on the left was 

a stump. And behind that stump a pirate ship 

waited to attack anyone in search of their gold. 

Of course that was the gold that Hirundo's 

grandfather had a map for, so these pirates 

were very old and tired. Hirundo led them to 

the brig with the promise of hard candies, then 

locked them up and stole their ship.

Hirundo now had to sail for quite a distance, 

but he moved swiftly in his pirate ship. Then 

he heard someone call, "Ahoy," from a maple 

tree leaning out into the water. Hirundo was 

almost afraid to go there because a tree 

behind the maple looked like it had been 

broken by a giant. "I know you," an old pirate 

said. "You must be the grandson of Captain 

Pushaw. You look just like him. If you look in 

the tree in front of the next beaver house you 

come to, you will find a great treasure."

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