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From: fogelincc@ptag3.pt.cyanamid.com (Carl C. Fogelin -- SACA, Discovery)
Subject: Re: You Say It, I'll Sing It
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Date: Wed, 14 Dec 1994 16:00:31 GMT

Crombie pushed open the door to the Inn and made towards an empty table.
Sitting heavily he signalled Serene his desire for a pint of bitters
and some stew.  His neck was stiff from poring over musty tomes in the 
great library the last ten hours.  His search was about as hopeless as he
had thought it would be, but he wasn't going to give up yet.

Rolling his head to get the cricks out of his neck, he noticed that
Listener was up in his normal perch and he was addressing the inn.

> "I shall sing anything you request.  It may not be the exact song you
>  expected to hear, but you'll get a song for your money, which I'm hoping
>  will be copious, unless you're all CHEAP.
> 
> "I sure do hope somebody requests SOMETHING.  It would be a terrible,
>  awful thing is NOBODY requests anything, because then I'd have to drag
>  out the default bard song, which is 'My Charona', and I'm sure nobody
>  wants that to happen.  Least of all me.
> 
> "So give me a song title.  Maybe I know it; if I do, I'll play it.  Maybe
>  I don't know it; if I don't, I'll make some lyrics up.  You can't lose.
> 
> "Requests, anybody?"

"Ah good bard," said Crombie, loudly above the din of the crowd, "Mayhaps
there is a tune you know that I would like to hear.  While enjoying the
festivities last Founders Day I happened to hear a tune that reminded me
of home.  By some chance to you know the Jolly Beggars Reel?"  

Reaching into a vest pocket, Crombie pulled a couple of coins out.  "It's
been such a long while since I visited home."

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