The Ghost Ship 1 --- The ghost ship One day Ernie was late for school. He ran up School Hill and slipped through the hole in the fence. He hoped the Head wouldn’t see him. ‘Wow!’ Ernie gasped. There was a ghost ship floating about in the playground. It was much like an ordinary ship, but white and see-through. He knew that it couldn’t be real. The ghost ship was tied to one of the netball posts （柱子） A strange glow came from it, . and it rocked（摇晃） up and down as if it was riding invisible（看不见的） waves. A ghost seagull flew around it. ‘Ahoy there, ghost ship!’ Ernie cried bravely. A ghost’s head popped out（从窗边探出头来） from a window. ‘Who said that?’ the ghost asked. ‘I did!’ said Ernie. ‘But you’re not supposed to be able to see me!’ the ghost gasped. Then the ghost thought again. ‘Are you sure you can see me?’ the ghost asked. ‘Quite sure,’ Ernie said. The window slammed（哐的一声） shut. ‘I spoke to a ghost!’ Ernie shouted. Mrs Wiggins, the caretaker, heard Ernie shout. She came running out to the playground. ‘I sp-sp-spoke to a ghost!’ Ernie stuttered. ‘Shhh! Don’t tell anyone,’ said Mrs Wiggins. ‘Why not?’ Ernie asked. ‘I don’t want you upsetting the small ones in Class One!’ Mrs Wiggins said. ‘But the ghost ship’s parked （停车） in the playground,’ Ernie said. ‘They’ll see it when they come out at break.’ ‘Not everyone can see it,’ said Mrs Wiggins. ‘Well, I can,’ Ernie told her. ‘Then that makes two of us,’ sighed Mrs Wiggins. Mrs Wiggins marched up to the ghost ship. ‘Ship ahoy!’ called Mrs Wiggins. The window popped open, and out looked the same ghost as before. ‘Ahoy, there, Mrs Wiggins,’ the ghost said, politely. ‘Captain Pegleg!’ Mrs Wiggins scolded. ‘You promised that no one else but me could see you. But one of the children from Class Four just has! Haven’t you, Ernie?’ ‘Yes,’ Ernie said, ‘I just have.’ ‘Well, it can happen, you know,’ the Captain said, sounding upset. ‘Not often, but sometimes it happens.’ ‘You can’t keep sailing in here if people can see you!’ Mrs Wiggins said, firmly. ‘I can’t help sailing in here,’ the Captain told her. ‘Why not?’ Ernie asked. ‘There’s just me on board!’ said the Captain. ‘I can’t sail her alone, so I have to go where she blows. I just wish she’d blow in here more often. Then I could hunt for my treasure.’ The Captain went on, ‘I’m doomed to sail the seas forever until I find my lost treasure. I know it’s here because that’s what it says on my map.’ ‘You’d better find it this time, or else!’ warned Mrs Wiggins. The window snapped shut. ‘Ghost treasure!’ said Ernie. ‘Wait till I tell this to Class Four!’ 2 --- ‘We can’t see it!’ Everyone had to wait until break time to see the ghost ship. They rushed out of class and into the playground. ‘There it is!’ Ernie shouted, pointing at the ghost ship. Everyone took a good look. They saw the bins and the fence, but they couldn’t see any ship. ‘We can’t see it,’ said Louie. ‘But there IS a ghost ship!’ Ernie said, looking at it, and through it, both at the same time. The ghost ship was see-through and fuzzy. ‘There’s no ghost ship here!’ said Louie. The ghost seagull flew down and landed on
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Louie’s head. ‘A ghost seagull just landed on your head!’ Ernie told Louie. ‘Oh no it didn’t!’ said Louie, who couldn’t see it, or feel it. ‘OH YES IT DID!’ Ernie shouted. ‘OH NO IT DIDN’T!’ roared everyone else. They laughed at Ernie for making up stories about ghost seagulls and ships. Then they ran off to play. Along came Jade, the smallest and cleverest girl in Class Four. ‘What’s that ghost ship doing here?’ she asked Ernie. ‘You can se it too!’ Ernie gasped. ‘Of course I can,’ said Jade. ‘No one else can, but me and Mrs Wiggins,’ Ernie said. ‘It’s Captain Pegleg’s ship and he’s doomed to sail the sea forever, until he finds his lost treasure. He thinks he left it around here.’ ‘We could help him to find it,’ said little Jade. ‘How?’ Ernie asked. ‘My dad has books about treasure hunting,’ said Jade. ‘We’ll look in his books and find out what to do.’ ‘Ghost treasure hunt starts right now!’ shouted Ernie. ‘Ghost treasure hunt starts when we’ve looked at Dad’s books!’ said Jade. The bell went for the start of lessons. ‘After school!’ Jade told him. ‘After school, and no mucking about!’ 3 --- The treasure hunt After school, they went to Jade’s house and got out her dad’s books about treasure hunting. ‘That’s how we’ll do it!’ said Jade, showing Ernie a page in one of the books. ‘But we haven’t got one of those,’ Ernie said, pointing at the metal detector. ‘My dad has,’ Jade said. ‘He uses it when he hunts for old coins and things on the beach. That’s why he has all these books about treasure hunting.’ They ran back up School Hill to the school. Ernie was carrying a spade 铁锹） and Jade （ had a big bag, with the metal detector in it. ‘Captain Pegleg!’ Ernie called. The Captain was on deck. ‘You again!’ said Captain Pegleg. ‘Can you still see me?’ ‘Yes,’ Ernie said. ‘We know you can’t stop sailing till you find your ghost treasure,’ Jade told the Captain. ‘We want to help you find it,’ Ernie added. ‘But first we want to look at your map,’ said Jade. The map was ripped and torn, with lots of holes in it. ‘The ghost seagull got at it!’ Captain Pegleg said. ‘It says: X Marks the treasure on the map,’ said Jade, ‘but I don’t see any X.’ ‘The ghost seagull pecked out my X. I can’t remember where it was,’ sighed Captain Pegleg. ‘I can’t even find Treasure Island… But I’m sure this is where it used to be.’ ‘It is!’ said little Jade, and she grinned. ‘Treasure Island is here, where we’re standing!’ ‘How do you know?’ asked Ernie. ‘Look!’ Jade said, and she drew on the back of the Captain’s map. ‘The bit sticking up is School Hill!’ she told Ernie. ‘Where our houses are now, used to be under the sea, years ago. My dad told me.’ ‘We still don’t know where to look!’ Ernie said. ‘We could dig all day and never find the treasure.’ ‘We’ll use my dad’s metal detector,’ explained Jade. ‘It’ll go ping when we’re near the treasure.’ ‘If metal detectors work（有效，适用）on ghost gold!’ muttered Ernie. ‘Well, it might work,’ said Jade. ‘At least we can try.’ So they looked for the treasure … But they didn’t find it … so they looked again … and again … … They looked again … and again … Then PING PING PING went the metal detector. It was the treasure!
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They dug up Captain Pegleg’s ghost treasure chest 箱子） filled with gold. It was ghost （ gold, so it wasn’t as heavy as real gold. They started to carry it back to the ship. At least, that’s what they started to do. But as they were walking back towards the school, the ghost treasure chest began fading away. Captain Pegleg began fading, too. ‘Goodbye, Captain Pegleg,’ Jade whispered. ‘The ghost ship faded away because we found Captain Pegleg’s treasure,’ Ernie told Class Four the next day. ‘There never was a ghost ship,’ said Louie. ‘Oh yes, there WAS!’ shouted Ernie. ‘Oh no, there WASN’T!’ shouted everyone else. Somewhere else, somewhere far away, a ghost seagull cried. But nobody heard it, except Ernie and Jade and Mrs Wiggins.
2. 第十三本 6_13_The Ghost_Ship
Ernie感到很震惊，因为他发现了一艘幽灵船在学校的操场上行驶，但是班里只有他和Jade能看见它。他们一起帮Pegleg船长找到了他的宝藏，最后幽灵船开始渐渐消退，消失了。
1 幽灵船
一天，厄尼上学晚了。他跑上学校山，钻过栅栏里的洞。他希望校长没有看见他。
“哇！”厄尼倒抽了一口气。
有一条幽灵船在操场上飘来飘去。它很像一条普通的船，但它是白而透明的。他知道这不可能是真的。
幽灵船被系在一个网球柱子上。一个奇怪的亮光从那里发出来，它上下摇晃着，好像在驾驭着看不见的大海。一只幽灵海鸥在它的周围飞行。
“喂，幽灵船！”厄尼勇敢地喊道。
一个幽灵的脑袋从一个窗子里探了出来。“是谁说的？”这个幽灵问。
“我说的！”厄尼说道。
“但是你应该看不见我呀！”幽灵倒抽了一口气。
然后幽灵又想了一想。
“你确定能看见我吗？”幽灵问道。
“很肯定。”厄尼说。
窗户砰地关上了。
“我和一个幽灵说话！”厄尼喊道。
看门人威金斯老师听见了厄尼喊叫。她跑了出来，到了操场。
“我和一个幽灵说-说-说话！”厄尼结结巴巴地说。
“嘘！别告诉任何人。”威金斯老师说。
“为什么？”厄尼问道。
“我不想要你让一般的小孩子们感到不安！”威金斯老师说道。
“但是这条幽灵船被停在操场上，”厄尼说，“但他们在休息的时候出来就会看见了。”
“不是所有人都能看见它。”威金斯老师说道。
“嗯，我能看见。”厄尼告诉他。
“那么那就是我们俩。”威金斯老师叹息道。
威金斯老师大步走到幽灵船跟前。
“喂！轮船！”威金斯老师喊道。
窗户啵地一声打开了，往外看的还是那个幽灵。
“啊！威金斯老师”幽灵有礼貌的说道。
“皮格莱格船长！”威金斯老师责备道，“你保证除了我以外没有一个人能看见你。但是一个四班的孩子已经看见了！不是吗，厄尼？”
“是的，”厄尼说，“我看到了。”
“嗯，这可能会发生的，你知道的，”船长说，听起来有些不安，“不很经常，但有时它会发生。”
“如果有人能看见你，那么你就不要在这里航行了。”威金斯老师鉴坚定地说道。
“我忍不住在这里航行。”船长告诉她。
“为什么？”厄尼问道。
“只有我在船上！”船长说道，“我不能独自驾驶船，所以我不得不随它顺风飘。 我只希望它多飘到这儿。那么我就可以寻找我的财宝了。”
船长接着说道：“我注定永远在海上航行直到我失去的财宝。我知道它就在这儿，因为这是我地图上所画的。”
“你最好这次找到它，否则！”威金斯老师警告道。
窗户啪地关上了。
“幽灵财宝！”厄尼说道，“等着，我把这件事告诉给四班！”
2.”我们看不见它！”
所有人不得不等到休息时间去看幽灵船。他们冲出了教室到了操场。
“就是那儿！”厄尼喊道，指着那个幽灵船。
所有人仔细地看了看。他们看到了垃圾箱和栅栏，但是他们看不见什么船。
“我们看不见它！”路易说道
“但是这儿有幽灵船！”厄尼说，看着它，并且与此同时走过它。幽灵船是透明且模糊的。
“这儿没有幽灵船！”路易说道。
幽灵海鸥飞了下来，落在路易的头上。
“一只幽灵海鸥刚刚落在了你的头上。”厄尼告诉路易。
“哦，不，没有！”路易说，他看不见它，或者感到它。
“哦，是，它有！”厄尼喊道。
“哦，不，没有！”其他所有人狂喊道。
他们嘲笑厄尼编造幽灵海鸥和船的故事。然后他们跑开玩去了。
四班里最小的最聪明的Jade走了过来。“那条幽灵船在这儿干什么？”她问厄尼。
“你也能看见它！”厄尼倒抽了一口气。
“我当然能看见它。”Jade说。
“除了我和威金斯老师，没有人能看见，”厄尼说，“这是皮格莱格船长的轮船，而且他注定要在海上永远航行直到他找到他丢失的财宝。他认为他将它丢在了这儿。”
“我们能够帮助他找到财宝。”小Jade说道。
“怎么找？”厄尼问道。
“我爸爸有关于寻宝的书，”Jade说，“我们可以在他的书了看看然后找出来干什么。”
“寻幽灵财宝现在就开始！”厄尼喊道。
“当我们看过爸爸的书后再开始！”Jade说
上课铃响了。
“放学后！”Jade告诉他，“放学后，不要到处闲逛！”
3.寻宝
放学后他们去Jade的房子并且得到她爸爸关于寻宝的书。
“这是我们如何要做的！”Jade说着，给厄尼看某一页的书。
“但是那些我们什么也搞不到。”厄尼指着金属探测仪说道。
“我爸爸有，”Jade说，“当他在沙滩上寻找就硬币和东西时，他就用到他了。这就是他为什么拥有所有关于寻宝的书。”
他们跑回学校山上到了学校。厄尼背着一个铲子，Jade背着一个装有金属探测器的大袋子。
“皮格莱格船长！”厄尼喊道。
船长在甲板上。“又是你！”皮格莱格船长说道，“你还能看见我吗？”
“是的。”厄尼说道。
“我们都知道你直到找到你丢失的幽灵财宝才能停止航行。”Jade告诉船长
“我们想要帮助你找到它。”厄尼补充道。
“但是我们想先看看你的地图。”Jade说。
地图被撕得破破烂烂，有很多洞在里面。
“幽灵海鸥把它啄成这样的！”皮格莱格说。
“它写着：X在地图上标出了财宝，”Jade说，“但是我看不见任何X。”
“幽灵海鸥啄掉了我的X。我想不起来它在哪了，”皮格莱格船长叹口气说道，“我甚至找不到珍宝岛了……但我确定它以前就在这儿。”
“是的！”Jade答道，她咧开嘴笑道，“珍宝岛就在这儿，在我们站的地方！”
“你怎么知道的？”厄尼问道。
“看！”Jade说，她在船长的地图的背面画着。
“突起来的这块地方是学校山！”她告诉厄尼，“我们房子现在所在的地方过去是在底下，很多年以前。我爸爸告诉我的。”
“我们还是不知道去哪看！”厄尼说，“我们只能整天挖而找不到财宝。”
“我们会用我爸爸的金属探测仪，”Jade解释道，“当我们靠近财宝时它会发出‘砰’的声音。”
“如果金属探测仪能够在幽灵财宝起作用的话！”厄尼嘟囔道。
“嗯，它可能会起作用的，”Jade说，“至少我们可以尝试。”
他们寻找起了财宝。
但是他们没有找到……他们找了又找……找了又找……
……他们看了又看……看了又看……
然后金属探测仪发出来了“砰”“砰”“砰”
是财宝！
他们挖起了皮格莱格船长的装满了黄金的幽灵财宝箱。里面有幽灵黄金，所以它不和真正的黄金一样重。他们开始把它搬回到船上。
至少，那是他们所开始做的。但是当他们走回学校的时候，幽灵财宝箱开始消退。皮格莱格船长也消退了。
“再见，皮格莱格船长。”Jade小声说道。
“因为我们找到皮格莱格船长的财宝，所以幽灵船消退了。”第二天，厄尼告诉四班。
“没有幽灵船。”路易说。
“哦，是的，有的。”厄尼喊道。
“哦，不，没有。”其他所有人喊道。
在某个地方，在某个遥远的地方，一只幽灵海鸥交了起来。但是没有人听见，除了厄尼。Jade，和威金斯老师。