George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
George didn’t like the sound of cannon fire, so he came with a new plan: to launch a balloon above the enemy’s ship and drop horses on them.
“Why horses?” asked the captain. “We already have a bunch of cannon balls. And cannons.”
The captain let George experiment with his balloon project, but it never got off the ground.
Literally. The balloon never managed to get off of the ground.
George tried to use smaller baby horses, but their mothers kicked George enough to convince him to give up.