[Western] Regional fighter practice

[HE Chiang]

  HL Agnar,
Maybe I am a bit confused by your missive. Perhaps you have eaten some of 
your own salad with some strange mushrooms or something. It would seem from 
your letter that you took some horses that were bound for someone else and 
perhaps cause injury to members of our area? I suppose also that the reports 
too of missing people and the King's tax collectors in the surrounds of the 
home of yourself and Ld Logan, being done in by the two of you, maybe also 
true? I will have had a talk with HG Aaron about this when he was on the 
Throne, and we decided that it would have to be looked into and dealt with 
also.
 In service and fief to the Crown,
 HE Chiang
 Baron of Bonwicke

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "agnarr" <agnarr at suddenlink.net>
To: "Western Region of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <western at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 8:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Western] Regional fighter practice


> Your Excellency -
> I want to publicly say that my recent travels thru your lands was very 
> nice. Even though your new gate guards have a strange sense of humor. 
> (When I first came up to the gate, they refused to grant me passage). And 
> when my son mentioned that I was a great-bearded Buddha Belly, they jumped 
> all over themselves to open the gate for me.
> But please understand that, I am very sorry for not stopping and visiting 
> with you, but I was traveling through the lands of Bonwicke as I had 
> business in the Shire of Adlersruhe.  But in my travels, I did spend some 
> time talking with a lot of fine people about the current state of the 
> preparations that you are making in the Barony, and they are all impressed 
> with the needed upkeep of the Kings-road that goes from Treloc to 
> Adlersruhe -- I must say that you have done a real good job on it  too. 
> Heck, I bet you could march a whole army on it now without anyone, 
> breaking an ankle.  You even impressed ole-man A.C. Kerly, You know the 
> old-man that lives just north of the wall you have just built and you know 
> how hard-nosed he is about things.
>   Anyway, I finally ended up staying the night in the Shire of Adlersruhe 
> and after seeing the sights there, and taking care of a bit of business, I 
> returned back home all safe and sound.  But I did want to thank your fine 
> soldiers who gave me them 12 new horses.  Are these men new to your lands? 
> I only ask, as I have not seen them before.  Anyway, they stopped me at 
> the waterwell in La Mesa, while I was watering my poor ole' animals, and 
> when I approached their animals, to get a better look at the excellent 
> horses, your men stood in front of me and all they would say was 'Chain 
> horses, gift for the wondrous U!'  Your Excellency,  I was so impressed, 
> and thankful, I went and made them a fresh fish salad using some of those 
> new fast growing fish I found in a store in Aldersruhe. You know the ones 
> that when you catch them they swell up to three times their normal size. 
> Your men were so impressed they ate their meal with plenty of something 
> they called 'ice', and then they went and fell asleep under a few nearby 
> trees, they must have been trying to find me for sometime to give me those 
> horses, because they were so tired they did not even wave good-bye to me 
> when I left.
>   But the reason for this message is to let you know that whomever sold 
> you those horses, your excellencies, does not know his horse-flesh very 
> well so to speak.  As these 12 horses; while it is true - that they are 
> perfectly matched and being the purest white color I have seen in years - 
> they have not been trained at all in pulling and they know nothing about 
> being chained to a plow, or wagon for that matter.  But don't fret your 
> excellency, I will gladly take the time to train them to the duties 
> required for farm-work. But I thought you might want to question your 
> 'Master of Horses' more closely in the future, as these fine animals, are 
> to me more suited for the tasks related to the battlefield then the farm 
> field.
>
> Again Thanks for the Horses.
>
> Agnarr
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