ANNIE, BEN & MANGO
You never know where they're gonna go!
ANNIE, BEN & MANGO
You never know where they're gonna go!
What is it, Captain Mango?
Whales!? Sharks!?
A bottle!
With a message inside!
Can you get it, Ben?
Got it!
I’ve always wanted to find a bottle with a message in it.
It’s soooo mysterious.
Oh, my gosh! It’s not a message --
-- it’s a treasure map!
Hey, check it out.
Aren’t those the islands on the map?
They sure are!
Take us to the treasure island, Captain Mango!
We start with that oak tree.
It’s right here on the map.
According to the map, we’re almost to the end of the trail.
WE’RE HERE!!!
Yay! We're here!!
HERE I AM!!
Captain John!?
Annie?
Ben?
Mango??
What are you doing here?
Are you having fun now that you’re not a ghost anymore?
Aye.
I’m a treasure hunter now.
I sail the seven seas looking for buried pirate treasure.
Wow!
What treasures have you found?
Well, actually this is my first treasure hunt.
I found half of a treasure map in a bottle.
So did we!!!
Well, we’ve got two pieces of a map,
but they don’t match up.
That’s because the middle of the map is missing!
I think Mango found something important.
Somebody carved writing into the post.
This was written by Captain Long Tom Chapman.
He was a famous pirate who sailed the seas hundreds of years ago.
Every captain knows of him.
After years of sailing the oceans,
I, Captain Long Tom Chapman,
have buried my last and most precious treasure here on this island.
Oh, boy,
I get to dig and nobody’s going to get upset with me digging up their flowers!
I don’t think there’s any treasure here, Captain John.
Then we’ll try diggin’ behind the post!
Good question.
Mango wants to know how we’re going to get out of this hole?
I didn’t really think about that.
I got too excited about finding treasure.
I can stand on your shoulders, Captain.
Ben can get on my shoulders
and Mango can climb out!
Right, just step up there, Annie.
Ben,
climb on up --
you should clip those toenails, Ben.
Sorry, Captain John.
It’s your turn, Mango.
Get the rope in my duffle bag.
Now tie one end of the rope around the post
and throw the other end of the rope down to us
so we can climb out.
I’ll go up first and help you two out.
Made it!
Hang on there.
I’ve got you.
Thanks, Captain John.
We sure dug a deep hole.
Aye, Annie.
I don’t think there’s any treasure here.
Maybe somebody else dug it up.
We dogs do that all the time with bones we bury.
It’s a dog thing.
Oh, my goodness!
Mango found the missing center of the map!
And the “X” marks the top of that hill!
The treasure isn’t here --
IT’S THERE!
Heave!
HO!!!
We found it!
A real pirate chest!
This could be a fortune in gold and diamonds!
Or a bunch of pictures and books.
Not much of a treasure.
That’s where you’re wrong, Ben.
This is the best of all treasures!
Here’s Captain Chapman riding the Loch Ness Monster.
I’d heard they were friends.
Wow! It looks like he was a good dancer, too.
One of the best by the looks of that painting.
Wow!
He went everywhere and did everything!
He was with the mermaids in Atlantis.
WE’VE been there!
Must have been hard painting that underwater.
This must be a picture of Captain Chapman and his crew.
This is a fantastic treasure
even better than gold and diamonds
because it’s everything he really loved.
We can’t take this --
this is no one’s treasure but Captain Chapman’s.
Maybe some day his family will come looking for it.
That’s who this treasure belongs to.
Well, we didn’t get rich today, Annie.
But we did find a pirate’s treasure.
You take the map, Annie, a souvenir of today.
Goodbye, Captain John. Hope we see you again soon!
Hey, Annie,
do you know why pirates are pirates?
I shouldn’t ask but, no, Ben, why are pirates pirates?
I don’t know. They just --
AAAAAARRRRRR!
Oh Ben! Bad Joke!!
Right!