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From the Jagd- und Fischereimuseum on the main street through central Munich. This is an absurd museum, containing not only a fine collection of crossbows, not only a baronial hall lined with carefully-labelled antlers,

not only a set of stuffed exemplars of the fauna of Bavaria down to the Feldhamster and a pair of feral guinea-pigs that someone found living in a rabbit burrow, but an entire fifteen-metre-long side-gallery devoted to taxidermists' jokes with laborious multi-paragraph articles about the habitats and behaviours of the Wolpertinger depicted.

Date: 2013-07-06 11:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tigerfort.livejournal.com
The ferret holster is actually a sensible precaution for preventing people from interfering with your couriers. Most of your horse-messengers are carrying tubes with actual messages in, but a proportion (around one in three) have tubes full of angry ferret, making intercepting them a risky business.

Date: 2013-07-06 02:17 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ckd
In other words, some of the message papers are actually Q-slips.

Date: 2013-07-06 10:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] del-c.livejournal.com
Trousers make cheaper, but riskier, ferret storage solutions.

Date: 2013-07-06 11:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tigerfort.livejournal.com
You may be in the habit of sticking your hands down the courier's trousers in case they've got a message from the king there, but I'm not. No way of knowing what you'll find down there! :)

Date: 2013-07-06 12:13 pm (UTC)

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