Well, another Pirates Week gas come
and gone, and Grand Cayman has again survived. A good time was had by all.
As the buccaneers were leaving last
week to go off island for another year, I talked with a pirate up by Gun Bluff.
He had a peg-leg, a steel hook for a hand and a patch over one eye. I asked him
how he lost his leg and he told me a cannon ball shot it off during a sea
battle. I asked him how he got that steel hook and he told me one of Her Majesty’s
Royal Marines cut off his hand with a cutlass when he was attempting to board a
prize. Then I asked him how he lost his eye, and he said, “Oh that – a seagull
went potty in me eye”.
“What!” I said. “How did seagull
poo make you lose your eye?”
“Ha!” says he. “First day with the
hook!”
Typical pirate.
Michael James
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