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From: psc@lzmi.UUCP (Paul S. R. Chisholm)
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Subject: Re: Some Father Goose tales (a *real* shaggy dog story)
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Date: Mon, 7-Jan-85 00:24:51 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  7 00:24:51 1985
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    . . .   Another line lost!

Seems this new dragon flew into the corner of a kingdom, and the king
sent his best knight out on his best horse to trounce the foul lizard.
The knight found the dragon, pointed his lance, and charged.  The
dragon heard him coming, wrenched a tree out of the ground, and rolled
it towards the knight.  When it hit, the knight was thrown off and
bruised, but the horse's legs were broken, and the poor creature had
to be killed.

The knight hobbled back to castle and reported his failure to the
king.  The king sent his second best knight out on his second best
horse.  The same thing happened:  the dragon ignored the knight, and
took out the horse.

This went on (as such tales do) for quite a while, until the king was
down to his worst knight.  Alas, the last horse had been lost with the
second-to-worst knight.  The worst knight, not willing to loose this
rare chance to redeem himself, searched the kingdom for a surviving
steed.

A little later, a commotion rose at the castle.  The king ran to his
window, only to see his worst knight, with armor and lance, riding
atop . . . an honest-to-goodness shaggy dog.  "This proud hound will
save us all!" cried the worst knight.  "He's strong enough to support
my weight, fast enough to charge, and cunning enough to avoid the
dragon's tricks."

"Preposterous," announced the king, "I won't have it --

I wouldn't send a knight out on a dog like this!"
-- 
	-Paul S. R. Chisholm
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