Traditional Bavarian ferret holster

[fivemack]

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.

Comments

[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.

[ckd]

In other words, some of the message papers are actually Q-slips.

[del-c.livejournal.com]

Trousers make cheaper, but riskier, ferret storage solutions.

[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! :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

LOL.