SC - I am So Ashamed! (long)

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/26/00 4:20:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
KallipygosRed at aol.com writes:


> Young boys would climb to the top of the cloisters, shoo out the birds, and 
> then net them for use in dinners. >>


Documentation, please? Climbing into the rafters after the birds is correct 
but we always climbed into the rafters after dark took the roosting birds, 
wrung their necks and dropped them into the waiting cloth below.

<<> Heck of a lot of effort if the Masters of the castle didn't **eat** them 
> or considered them **below station**.>>

Why do you consider this 'a lot of effort'? Kids love to climb things. Fun 
would be a more accurate description, IMO. Also I have been led to believe 
that dove cots were specifically used to house birds so that food would be 
available during siege. I may be wrong. Awaiting enlightenment.



> 
> Lars
> 



Ras
The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones.- Solomon Ibn Gabirol