Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
From: kring@efes.physik.uni-kl.de (Thomas Kettenring)
Subject: [inn] Bakr is back
Message-ID: <1992Jul3.141134.17642@rhrk.uni-kl.de>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1992 14:11:34 GMT


  After a long and unsuccessful search, Bakr re-entered
the inn.  Everybody had trampled on him.  First the giant,
then the Gate Guard, and then Gark, the butcher.

  "Bear?  I have other things to do than watching for
bears!  Look at my shop!  Those barbarians!  There's
not even a liverwurst left!  Go and get me some deer!
And no moose please!  Do you know how much time I needed
to kill the one you brought yesterday?  You just left me
alone with that!"

He had offered to bring the bear, but Gark had thrown
things on him.  Bricks and shoes.  Now he not only 
didn't know how to get the bear but also what to do
with it if he found it.  Probably the best was setting
it free...

  Melancholically, he strolled to the bar and got a goat
milk.  This was when Felix referred to him:

>"Bakr over there mentioned something about losing a bear - maybe this is his.
>He might prefer it this way - should we ask him?  Not that there is any
>immediate hurry; it should stay like this for quite some while, I think"

Bakr ibn Ja'far ibn Musa al Mekneshi, apprentice mage.