George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
The captain ordered him to clean his fishtank.
George enjoyed his new responsibility, and he decorated it with all kinds of pretty rocks and fish.
As George learned more, he constructed bigger, more complex fishtanks.
At one point, most of the ship’s hold was taken up by George’s fishtank.
“ENOUGH!” shouted the captain. “It’s beautiful, but we need room to store provisions, cannonballs, and powder kegs!”
The next morning, the fishtank was gone.
The captain smiled, until he realized that the ship was stuck inside an even bigger fishtank.