“Grandad, tell us about the times when you were a pirate. How did you get your wooden leg.” “Arr, that were when we taking a merchantman, she only had one cannon, and she only managed to fire once and that cannon ball, took the bottom part of me leg clean off.” “ Gosh, and how did you get the hook for a hand.” “Arr, it were a cutless fight with a navy ship who tried to board us. I was about to finish one of them off when another came from the side and cut off me hand with the cutless. But I got him with me pistol with my left hand, then I knocked the first one unconscious with the pistol and kicked him overboard.” “And how did you lose your eye?” “Arr, I were looking up when a seagull shit in it.” “I didn’t know seagull poop was that dangerous” “Arr, that were the day after I got me hook.”
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