-What didn’t I find in his beard might be a better question, the mortician told me.
A famous, although moving toward the infamous perhaps, local old man had died. A man endowed with the greatest of beards, one that had entranced and excited our imaginations as to what secrets it might hide.
And now the poor fellow had expired we had the chance to find out!
-Well, mostly food but also cotton reels, pen nibs, dry pasta, coins, paper money, a bee, a fly, bus tickets, a ring woven in... Oh! and a dead mouse.
To us, a blissful list.
A famous, although moving toward the infamous perhaps, local old man had died. A man endowed with the greatest of beards, one that had entranced and excited our imaginations as to what secrets it might hide.
And now the poor fellow had expired we had the chance to find out!
-Well, mostly food but also cotton reels, pen nibs, dry pasta, coins, paper money, a bee, a fly, bus tickets, a ring woven in... Oh! and a dead mouse.
To us, a blissful list.
Written for 100 Word Challenge #378 on Velvet Verbosity; the prompt was the word Town.
ummm - ick! And, well woven. :)
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