Word: dragons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That was only the beginning of Sir Henry's troubles. By slaying the dragon, he, of course, won the damsel. Lady Alisane, the dragon's ward, had been idly waiting around to be rescued, and as soon as the battle ended, she stepped forward and offered her knight some...
...dragon was a scaly monster with a forked tongue and hooked claws. He politely requested the knight's identity. "I am Henry of Brentwood, knight," the knight replied. "My father was Sir Tiffany of The Glen, and my mother was an enchantress...
...Nonsense," said the dragon. "Your mother was a kitchen wench...
With that, Sir Henry tried to charge, but his nervous horse backed away. Soon the dragon was spitting clouds of smoke and fire. As the monster opened his mouth wide, horse and rider were so scared that the knight dropped his spear-right into the dragon's mouth. It killed the beast stone-cold dead before you could as much as say Saint George...
...safekeeping in the U.S. But Pearl Harbor intervened, and the Marines spent the war in Japanese P.W. camps. The Peking man vanished. Some U.S. anthropologists believe that the precious bones lie unrecognized somewhere in North China. Or, by Chinese peasant custom, they may even have been ground up as "Dragon's Teeth" medicine and tossed off with a cup of tea to ward off senility...