George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
George had a habit of using his dagger to whittle bits of wood off of the ship’s railing as toothpicks.
Other pirates picked up this habit from George, and after a week, the whole ship looks like it had been clawed up by a dozen angry cats.
“Enough with the toothpicks!” said the captain. “Stop carving my ship to pieces!”
After that outburst, George left the ship alone.
But he tried to carve a toothpick off of Peg Leg McGinty.
McGinty caught George, and brained him with a club.