Nine Figs in the Flapjack ch.5, p.17


Lord Cowmate Submits to Corncob Decoding
            Fleshy nodules covered the seat of the High Adviser’s chair.  These could be disguised with a simple relish of virtuals and farthrush, but anyone who had sat in the chair (and there were many besides the twelve current and previous holders of the office of High Adviser who had) knew their squirmy penetrations all too well to be fooled.  Dal Matian, the cashew’s son, tried throwing a cotton handkerchief (smeared with Vaseline) over the seat the neighboring arms of battered raccoon hide, but the resultant topography claimed the lives of many guerilla troops that attempted to hide out among its supposedly snow-covered hills.

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