Sea Shells

Today Pirate Daddy took a break from work so we could go to the sea.

"Aye!" said I.  "Let's go looking for seashells!"

But Pirate Daddy only had one mask and it didn't fit me.  I couldn't even see out the place for me eyes!

"How's about ye go into the sea and I'll keep the shells ye catch?"

"Arrr," said Daddy.  "That be a good idea indeed."  So off he went into the blue sea.

The first shells he brought back were small.

"Ye can do much better than that Pirate Daddy!"

So he brought me back a couple of urchins.

"Nice and bumpy," said I.  But these aren't shells.

So he brought me this.

"Arrr, Pirate Daddy," said I.  "What need have I with a 'sea potato' nice as it is?"

Then he brought me a real prize.

It were a shell as big as me own self!

"Did ye know?" asked Pirate Daddy, "that if ye hold a sea shell to yer ear, ya can hear tha sea?"

Aye, and it were true.  Even when I put me whole head in the shell!