He read at a pirate party

Long John Silver took a fancy to him when the pirates raided the ship en route to the new plantations in the Caribbean. The Lord had obviously saved him for a greater purpose, which was appropriate given his pastoral calling.

‘A man of God, hey?’ The pirate captain smirked, reaching out to caress the reverend’s cheek with the blunt rounded edge of his iron claw.

‘Man of God, man of God,’ the parrot on the captain’s black-clothed shoulder squawked. The bird’s yellow, green and blue plumage gle...