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The exact words of the pact were written thus:

'On this eighth day of first week of the first

 

'moon in the tenth year after the great famine

just by the Rocky Valley, owl turned assassin

 

'and attacked rat, the driver of the first cart

owned by Smithit of Palm Belt though rat

 

'escaped but the cart fell into the valley

and its precious contents were upset abysmally.

 

'The