PWoF 2016 - Topic 08 - Sept. 29

[Lizzie]

You see,  I sent my gallant lover a bottle of sherry and silk stockings by carrier pigeon, but it mixed up the longitude portion of the directions and my presents were lost when the pigeon hastily spiraled downwards and splashed into sea where it drowned. And so my offended lover, having never received the gifts, in a savage letter accused me of antipathy and sent me a vial of poison lodged in a wooden mouse.

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Anno Domini 1076

Guiscard de Hauteville inclined...

I'm always impressed with your fine control of meter.