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Saturday evening Daniel challanged me to write a story with no R’s in it. I wrote the story on Monday not really having had the time to do it before. And here is the story without any R’s in it.

Daniel Von Fange’s Challenge
By Elizabeth Von Fange

“Once upon a time” I began, “My sibling Daniel challenged me to compose a tale without using the component of the alphabet between q and s. This challenge I have accepted and I am now about to begin this daunting task.”

“And what does that have to do with me?” the spotted Bengal mouse asked lifting one eyelid lazily.

“I want you to be in the tale.” I told it.

“I won’t do it. No way you can put me into it.” the spotted Bengal mouse said emphatically.

“I put you in anyway.” I calmly mentioned then, without waiting to let the stupefied spotted Bengal mouse say anything else I began my hunt to find some one else to be in the tale along with the spotted bengal mouse.

Imagination being the magnificent thing it is, it was not long until I saw a beautiful damsel who looked as though she ought to yell, and loudly, if a mouse was placed in the vicinity.

I now had just one last component to seek out and it wasn’t long until I found him, a handsome young knight who stood about 6′4″ and held doughty mouse catching device. Action was now to be unleashed.

I went back to the spotted Bengal mouse. It had decided to take a nap and was sleeping on a silk cushion while making nasal noises quite loudly.

“I need you to do something.” I yelled to awaken the spotted Bengal mouse.

“What!” it mumbled sleepily as it yawned and attempted to go back to sleep.

“Wake up to begin with.” I said, not so gently bumping it with a stick.

The spotted Bengal mouse looked at me without any feeling of joy and slowly got up. “Why won’t you leave me alone” it piteously whined.

“I will as soon as you do the deed you have to do in my tale.”

“You don’t have a tail,” it said, “I have a tail. ”

“No, I mean… Oh… Just get up and go to the vicinity of the beautiful damsel. Then you can back to sleep and I shan’t annoy you again.”

With a squeak the spotted Bengal mouse set out. It swiftly sped into the vicinity of the beautiful damsel who, as soon as she saw it, yelled with intimidation and began jumping up and down while saying “A mouse! A Mouse.”

It was now time to cue the knight who would save the day with his doughty mouse catching device but he was busy looking at the sky while listening to his IPod and contemplating if any chocolate could be found in the black holes of space.

This state of things was unacceptable so I quickly summoned the Golden Eagle of Doom who swooped down and with one fell pluck of its talons took the headphones of the knight while a little mole caused a small hole beneath the knight’s feet. The knight fell down and suddenly he was capable of
listening to noises that seemed to indicate that someone was in need of assistance.

Being a dutiful knight, when he wasn’t listening to his IPod and contemplating, he got up and to see what the cause of the noise was and in doing so he saw that the beautiful damsel was being annoyed by the spotted Bengal mouse.

Quickly he pulled out his doughty mouse catching device and sped to the scene of the chaos. Using the mouse catching device he caught the spotted Bengal mouse and the beautiful damsel ceased jumping up and down and yelling and stood quite still looking at the handsome knight who was dispensing with the spotted Bengal mouse.

The spotted Bengal mouse, just so you know, was okay and wasn’t dispensed much but he left the scene and went back to his silk pillow to nap in peace and so he lived happily to the end of his days.

The handsome knight, having dispensed with the mouse, looked up and he beheld the beautiful damsel who was beholding him and as they both seemed to know at the same moment that time was limited and that I would be finishing this tale soon, the handsome knight swiftly asked the beautiful damsel to become his wife and she said yes so they wed and lived twice as lengthy and happy lives as the spotted Bengal mouse. THE END

Ending piece of wisdom: Limitations sometimes enhance things though often they just make something totally silly. And yes, I had limitations on this tale. Enjoyed it though I hope you did:)