
At the age of 58, Angus Brook lost his other leg when he fell overboard yet again while trying to swab the deck during a storm. He was known for keeping a very tighty ship and preferred swabbing during storms. It makes sense that the water washing aboard helped loosen grime between the cracks of the ship's decking. The poor soul this time did not lose his leg to dolphin or shark, but to a school of rabid seawater goldfish that thought they were sharks. It took those determined goldfish nine days to eat most of his leg. Angus eventually became frustrated and angry and cut the leg off using his own pocket knife, surrendering it to goldfish.
Angus Brook was always one to make the best of a bad situation and quickly went about turning himself a matching peg. Some time after losing the second leg, he decided to build fine looking railing for the ship to keep from being washed overboard ever again. It is said that Angus Westbrook Finlayson became a talented dancer and his peg-tapping and mouth harp playing could be heard across the bay as he jigged aboard his ship at night when ever he was on watch. No, Angus never was washed overboard again, he died in a tragic lathing accident due to poor eye sight when he was an old man. He was buried at sea - not too far from Goldfish Reef.
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I'm experiencing phantom sympathy pains just reading about it.
Mother read this today and studied the picture. "Why he looks like Brooky!"
His brother jumped in to save him and,luckily, only lost his scalp?
Lol. Funny story as only David can tell it.
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