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. I m afraid a certain ghostly giant squirrel with curly hair mightobject to that plan.Speaking of which: where is he? On duty at the castle.Obie will be sleeping when he returns, so362 Andrew Ashlingwe re safe for another night. Still, isn t it about time we told him.Rahendo became suddenly very white. Oh no, Nulfie, don t do anything rash.You know how he gets.I mslowly working my way up to telling him.Arranulf raised his eyebrows. How? By ignoring the problem? It s just a matter of getting him in the right mood and then.Rather discouraged he let the sentence die out. Only a heavy hammer will be sufficient to bring him in the rightmood for what you are trying to tell him.Rahendo sighed.At that moment Obyann came back out of hisroom. You did it on purpose, didn t you, Landemere? he roared. What? What have I done now? This, Obyann growled, holding out his open letter.Arranulf took the parchment and scanned it quickly.First therewere some opening remarks concerning the welfare of celeryseedlings. We are all so proud of you here yes so proud that some say Ishould let you manage the demesne as soon as you return Vrenck ofcourse being one of them which is no wonder since he s been naggingme from the time we were barely able to stand upright and even thenhe thought I should slow down and now he wants us to go fishing allday long that is to say him lying on his back in the grass and me beingbored stone dead but I told him no and tried to explain to him againBonds of Fear 363how this lord and servant thing works but of course he claims to begrowing deaf in one ear and strangely enough it is always the ear Ihappen to be talking to the silly twat never mind. As I said everybody is so proud of you except of course Ruldo whocalled you something I won t repeat because it will make you mad butdon t you worry because I told him to shut up and gave him five days ofstable duty so he ll be wading ankle deep through horse shit for havinga shitty mouth for the next days never mind thanks to you there willbe plenty to eat next winter and they can all hump as much as theylike which no doubt they are doing as I am writing this like the randyrabbits they are because it doesn t matter anymore because there willbe more than enough foot or food I forget which but I haven t told youyet what happened so I will now. Yesterday some people of the duchy came and I thought this can tbe good but oh boy was I wrong because they said they had discoveredwhile looking at the maps of their borders that they had unlawfullyoccupied some of our land and to please not be angry with thembecause it was all a big mistake and so they had this Deed preparedin which they recognized that the Merlinger Meadows right up to theBrannydenn Highway belonged truly and rightfully to Ramaldah andthey gave us five hundred rioghal as compensation for having occupiedour land for so long and would that be sufficient so could we pleaseconsider the Dispute as ended on which I said that it was most generousof the duke and I offered them a cup of my famous celery wine butthey said they had many things to do so they couldn t which is strangebecause nobody can resist my self made celery wine but anyhow theysaid they had to go and take care that the border stones were put inthe right place but thank you all the same my lord never mind. So we re moving the cattle on the Merlinger Meadows and willbe tilling the lands thus freed starting tomorrow and it even doesn tmatter if they don t yield too much the first year because now we have364 Andrew Ashlingmoney enough to buy all the foot or food we may need even if theyfornicate like the horny bunnies they are and I say let them becauseevery new mouth will find plenty to eat winter or not for many yearsto come that s for sure [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]