George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
He spent a lot of time below decks with jigsaw puzzles.
No, not those simple Playskool wooden puzzles with 6 or 7 pieces.
These were serious ones, with 5,000 pieces.
And he worked hard to solve them before the cardboard pieces swelled with the moist sea air.
The captain complained that the hold was filling up with jigsaw puzzle boxes and leaving little room for cargo.
He had George toss them overboard.
But, still, at every port, George would pick up a new puzzle.
And work on it diligently.