I eventually found out why they called the ship 'The Green Bucket'. After a few days I was as sick as a dog. What's worse I had to stay down in the ships' hold where no one on board could see me. After a few days spent in a rocking 보트 I either got used to it 또는 just simply ran out of stuff to barf up. Either way, I felt a bit better after while. Then one unexpecting morning some wise crack came down into the hold to my level. Let me just say he wasn't standing up down there too much. Every time he'd wake up I'd 헤로인 him into 다음 tuesday. Finally I had to start hitting the other eye because the left one was starting to turn an olvacado green around the edges. I guess when I kept hitting the guy so he couldn't leave 또는 anything I left out one important detail in the script. His buddies topside would start missing him after while. A few days later another guy came traipsing down to the hold. He was calling 'Bubba's name and was packing a 까마귀 bar. I didn't know whether it was just 'cause he was scared of the dark, 또는 he thought something real was down here. I didn't want to take any chances. I stepped back into the far corner of the hold and held my breath. He clomped around in the small room before he stepped on Bubba's leg. He screamed like some girl I knew in 초 grade and stumbled backwards right on 상단, 맨 위로 of me. I swear he stepped on every place I had. I guess I must have made a good bit of racket because he figured out I was there. He shouted, "Lookie, Lookie! Der's a 펭귄 down here!" and picked me up like a rag doll. "Boy, he's heavier than he looks!!" The jerk muttered. That pissed me off. I turned around and bit him. Being a 펭귄 I don't have any teeth, but it freaked the stupid idiot at least. He dropped me like a sack of stinking 물고기 onto his foot. Honestly that guy was wearing super-steel combat boots 또는 something! It winded me enough to keep me still so he could throw a sack over me and before I knew it he had hauled me up the stairs topside. I heard him call, "Hey boss! Lookie what / found!" I rolled my eyes. Humans were so demented. I wriggled to break free but it was no use. It really wasn't my doing that I managed to get out of that sack. The blitthering idiot dropped me. I hit the wooden deck with a hard thud and tumbled out into the blinding, bright sunlight. I sheilded my eyes from the light and heard a deep, rough-voiced chuckle, "Well, well, well, well, what have we here?" he asked. He pulled my flipper away from my face and I got a good look at his mug. It wasn't a terrible-looking face. He had a grey beard, moustache, and grey-blue eyes. He had gritty, coffie-stained teeth which clenched down on his old-fashoined looking pipe he had. He warbled, "Hey kid, you're a good ways from 집 now aren't ya'?" All of a sudden I realized, these guys didn't speak Danish. They were American. The 'Boss' turned to that idiot who dropped me and barked, "Take him to my quarters. Josie will fix him up right and propper". The bozo grabbed me roughly and carried me like a sopping-wet kitten into the captain's quarters. He slung me onto the springy 침대 and I suddenly remembered 의해 broken flipper as it snapped out of place where I'd managed to push it back in. "G'night bird.." the jerk muttered before slamming the door. I glanced at my flipper. I could see where the bone was jutting up, leaving a rise in my upper flipper. I cringed, standing up and looking around. Then suddenly some sort of something 또는 other bowled into me like an express train and knocked me back into the wall. I looked up at a female loon with her foot on my chest forcing me down. She rambled something in Danish, 'Who are 당신 and what do 당신 want?!' Is what she said. I replied in Danish, 'Who I am is classified. I WANT off!'. She got the message. She removed her foot, 'You want off?' she asked in Danish, 'I'll give 당신 'off'!'. She swung me towards the open window. I saw the ocean water rushing wildly below me. I yelped and shouted in english rapidly, "No,no,no,no! Not 'off' like that!" The loon did a double take and replied in english, "Oh, you're American." she didn't pull me back inside though. I felt kind of weird hanging out over the open water with some female staring at my butt. "Um, can 당신 pull me up?" I asked. The loon thought a momment, then replied, "Eh, no.." Then she let go.