Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Pardoner's Tale

Three drunken revelers find out that a friend and several other villagers have died because of Death and decide get revenge, but on their way they meet an old man and ruff him up to get advice on which way Death went. They follow the road to a tree where there's a pile of gold and the three draw straws to see who goes back and gets food; the youngest goes to get food and wine with poison in the bottles while the other two plot to ambush him, and upon the youngest man’s return, the two kill him, drink the wine, and die.

~Susan Kim

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