George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
He had a severe case of arachnophobia, the fear of spiders.
If you put a spider next to George, he’d freak out and scream and run.
Even if it was a rubber spider, he’d yell “KILL IT! KILL IT! KILL IT!”
The crew loves to tease George by drawing spiders on things, or leaving rubber spiders around the ship.
One even found a tin of chocolate-covered spiders to give George as a gag for Christmas.
George threw the tin overboard, along with the pirate who gave it to him.