Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
From: tomscud@ruf.rice.edu (Thomas Reid Scudder)
Subject: Re: The contest begins!
Message-ID: <1992May17.054307.1305@rice.edu>
Keywords: cousin
References: <1992May14.193634.10540@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992May16.193322.17215@rice.edu> <1992May17.030242.5451@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: Sun, 17 May 1992 05:43:07 GMT

    "Well, cousin, he's still the same man.  A little wiser now, maybe, and
a little tired, perhaps, after all the battles he's fought with the Baron
and his men.  But I still haven't seen the man who can beat him at archery,
including those fellows in the back room.  I mean, it's one thing to hit a
mark at ten paces in an enclosed room, but Uncle William could hit a target
in a heavy crosswind at a hundred paces.
    "But I worry about him.  He's been living on the edge a long time, and one
of these days he's going to run out of luck.  And maybe he's getting a little
old for this too."  An unhappy look crosses his face, but soon brightens.
    "Ah, well, maybe I worry too much.  If those louts are all he has to
deal with, he has very little to fear."