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Once upon a time there was a handsome young knight named Harold. He was madly in love with the lovely young Duchess of Crantiberry but alas, she was not in love with him, yet.

One day there was a great commotion and Sir Harold, who had a strange attraction to great commotions quickly rode over to find out what this one was about. He was shocked to discover that the beautiful Duchess of Crantiberry had been kidnapped, and what was more, she had been kidnapped by his own butler!

Quite forgetting to put an add out for a new butler Sir Harold told his faithful squire to accompany them as they set out to find and rescue the attractive Duchess of Crantiberry.

After riding for some way they met up with some dragons who asked them to come into their cave for dinner. Sir Harold objected forcibly and once his faithful squire figured out that the dragons invitation meant that they were the ones supplying the dinner, he objected forcibly too so that in a short period of time they managed to proceed on their journey leaving the deceased dragons behind.

After much journeying they finally found the recreant butler. He was briskly trying to conquer the world as his one undeviating goal was to rule the world, and the ransom he was hoping to get from the capture of the dazzlingly beautiful Duchess of Crantiberry would aid him in this.

Sadly, due to expensive taste in clothing and jewelry, the Duchess’s finances were in a pitiful state and the ransom demands were such that it looked as though the Duchess would never be able to meet them.

Sir Harold, who was unaware of most of this, only knew that he had found his love, and his opponent when he finally saw both of them away in the distance. Unfortunately the fair Duchess of Crantiberry was in the highest tower of a diminutive castle and the recreant butler was standing outside the door laughing evilly because the castle was on top of a hill of glass.

After twenty-three unsuccessful attempts to get further up the hill than seven feet Sir Harold decided that strategy must be used and seizing his sword he dismounted and told his faithful squire to lead the two horses back a short distance, then he hacked as hard as he could with his sword at the hill of glass.

This was an unexpected action and as the hill was far from magical and far from unbreakable there was a great shattering noise as the hill broke into approximately a thousand pieces which, since nobody bothered to count the pieces, no one knows exactly how many there were. The butler was buried in the ruins but the charming Duchess of Crantiberry calmly slid through the ruble right into Sir Harold’s arms and after a very short period of time they found themselves engaged.

So they got married and everybody, except the butler, lived happily ever after.

MORAL: Persons who live on Hills of Glass should consider moving of their own free will before it is forced upon them.