A tale of derring-do

The following tale has emerged as a dialogue between Lord Turnip Townshend and the future Lord Turnip over the last few days.

As it turns out . . . Captain Stuart Turnips, the captain of the pirate ship Blue Side of American directed his crew of earnest, formerly bad guy, but now on the side of the good guys, pirates to sail the shores of Lake Michigan against the evil Captain Shakypants and his ship, Jolly Roger.

As it turns out the Jolly Roger was in league with the evil pirate Casey Finnegan and his ship the Blue Murder. If the lost treasure of Oingo Boingo was ever to be recovered from the evil Captain Shakypants, the crew of the Blue Side of American would need to be clever and would need to obtain the advantage of the wind.

To make a long story short . . . somehow Captain Stuart Turnips was able to defeat both the Jolly Roger and Blue Murder and recover the treasure of Oingo Boingo. Somehow the crew of both bad guy ships despite suffering a withering attack from the younger Turnips' crew of rough and ready-albeit-goodguy pirates and having both their mainsails broken by cannon fire, were all able to swim to safety.

Amongst the treasure of Oingo Boingo was a mysterious scroll. Written carefully in the margin of this scroll were the words "to read this treasure map you must use the gem of Sun Za, which is located not too far from the Turnips estate in Western Michigan."

Well that didn't seem too hard. Captain Stuart and his crew docked and repaired and refitted the Blue Side of American in a nearby dock and set out on foot to locate the Sun Za gem. Again, to make a long story short this gem was easily acquired and when Captain Stuart returned to his ship to look at the scroll he found that the scroll was a map to the mysterious Treasure Island which was located somewhere in the seven seas just beyond a musical bridge.

Well, now...the seven seas....The Blue Side of American took off and decided to start with the seventh sea: The Mediteranean, but could not find the musical bridge or Treasure Island.

Then they set sail for the sixth of the seven seas: The Black Sea, but could not find either the musical bridge or Treasure Island.

They then set sail for the fifth of the seven seas: The Adriatic Sea, but the musical bridge nor Treasure Island could be found.

The fourth of the seven seas appeared to offer great promise as it was the North Sea but that voyage came a cropper too.

The third of the seven seas: the White Sea, was miserable and cold to be sure and no musical bridge or Treasure Island could be found.

The second of the seven seas: the Caribean was nice and warm but did not have a musical bridge or Treasure Island.

Finally, they returned to the Great Lakes, which as they knew were the first of the seven seas and toward Lake Michigan, and somewhere around the Mackinaw Bridge they heard a strange and mysterious sound of music....maybe this was the musical bridge? Could Treasure Island be far away?