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Tom Womack ([personal profile] fivemack) wrote2013-07-06 09:33 am
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Traditional Bavarian ferret holster

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.

[identity profile] tigerfort.livejournal.com 2013-07-06 11:24 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com 2013-07-06 12:13 pm (UTC)(link)
LOL.