They reached the piers to leave the harbour just as three of the other boats returned. "ATTACK!" he shouted. They'd enter the other ships and make the sailors walk the plank! He took out his slingshot and a pebble and fired it at one of the passing boats.

He reached in his pocket for another pebble, but before he could find one, he was flung across the deck as there was the loud noise of crushing wood and they came to a sudden halt. Well, not too sudden, because they hadn't been moving very fast.

James scrambled to his feet and looked back. They had hit the pier. The boat began to heel to one side. They were going to capsize.

"Not the goat!!!!" he shouted, and stumbled across deck to the mast. There he loosened the loop at the goat's neck and pulled it over the creature's head, just before the boat heeled over further and James plus goat were launched into the water.