Child's Play
How it runs and skips. Away! Away!
The Wisdom of the Ages.
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It should have been child's play, Perdix thought. He'd copied Fye's method, and he even had the charcoal tattoo on his forehead to prove it.
But something was not right.
He gathered the herbs from his shelf, grabbed a frog's head from the bowl of dried animal parts, added and poured, chanted and intoned. The gooey mixture over the flame sizzled and turned into a light gray lump.
Perdix threw the mess out the small window behind his back.
It was time to start over.
"What am I missing? What in the heavens am I leaving out?" he muttered.
Wiping out the bowl with his sleeve, Perdix decided he needed some fresh air. It was time to go hunting he thought, and he gathered his walking stick and a small leather bag. He walked through the castle gate, speaking to no one. Nobody noticed the frail, bent man. They were all busy with chores or gossip.
Perdix did not have to travel far. Just outside the castle walls were a stream and a meadow. Several cows grazed on the emerald grass. Perdix retrieved a scraper from his leather pouch.
It had rained recently. The ground was soft.
"Ahh," he said, spying the mushrooms growing in and around the cow dung. "Perfect."
He filled his bag with many specimens and hurried back to his workbench inside the castle walls.
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