| filmy, shaky, admire, eyeful, "heir"-mail. |
|virtue, exited, gallop, shoddy, embark, manner, stand and deliver.
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"I hear you're conscientious, I admire that in a man.
ReplyDeleteYou're here to help the F.B.I. execute a plan."
Slim rose to pace the room. The agents untied Travis.
"We've inherited some info from an e-mail someone gave us."
"Foreign agents, we have learned, have you in their sights.
You can get access to some secrets on our recon satellites.
They have a flimsy film of a bribe they'll say you made,
In hopes that they'll recruit you with that shaky false charade."
"We want you to accept, to be our agent in their plot.
You'll leak bogus information that will set their plans at naught!"
Travis had an eye- and earful of what they wanted him to do.
He was a James Bond fan, so he thought it would be cool!
(More to come.)
Robert McGregor was born a true son of Scotland,
ReplyDeleteLoyal to the king as was his father and their band.
But King James was deposed, and the Jacobite cause
Tried to restore him, and their manner broke laws!
Then "Red" Robert embarked on a new career,
A rancher of means until rustlers interfere!
Impoverished by shoddy treatment from gentry,
Red McGregor disappeared, and Rob Roy made his entry!
A highwayman on horseback, he would hold up rich coaches,
Shouting "Stand fast, and deliver your wealth," he approaches!
Rich travelers exited their stage to hand over their purses.
Then on his steed away he galloped, ignoring their curses!
To the poor he was generous, to the nobles a fiend!
As a hero to the common folk of Scotland he was seen!
Was he a man of virtue, brought low by circumstance,
Or just a rogue and a rebel, who took his main chance?
I had a lot of trouble with both the #3 and #4 of the daily puzzle, but the riddle was as easy as looking out the window, so I could work backwards from that. Then on to the Sunday Jumble!
ReplyDeleteWell, I got all six of the Jumble items, and was able to check them off in your second poem, Owen--many thanks for that. But I'm still struggling to get the solution to what those little girls were prepared to do. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
ReplyDeletePoem, verse 3, line 2, if you know the legends of Scottish highwaymen, or Rob Roy in particular, you might notice I expanded their terse 3-word command to victims.
DeleteWell, I ended up cheating. I suddenly realized that the Sunday Los Angeles Times also includes a little clip with the answer to the Jumble. So I looked it up. This way I don't have to wait until you deliver the answer to me.
ReplyDeleteWell, I had a hint for Misty, and a whole lot of admiring commentary on the poems, but lost the post before I could deliver it. (Mostly due to a looong phone call that interrupted me.) Just can't stand it when that happens!
ReplyDeleteWho was it who wrote The Highwayman? Alfred Noyes? Will have to LIU.
Where is Ol'Man Keith these days? He's one of our Jumble partners, isn't he? I miss him. Let us know if Noyes is the one, Sandyanon.
ReplyDeleteOMK and Wilbur are kind of missing lately. We can't afford to deplete our (so far) small jumble community. Hope they show up soon.
DeleteAbout the Noyes poem, I read it online and aside from the word "highwayman", there's no similarity to speak of between that and Owen's lovely take on Rob Roy.
https://m.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/highwayman
That was one of my favorite poems as a kid. Sad ending, but great cadence!
DeleteOMK wrote something and then deleted it both here and on the Corner yesterday. I don't know what or why.
Yes, beautiful rhythm, tragic story.
DeleteI galloped to a finish and exited the word scramble but still had trouble with the final solution until reading Owen's poem. Thank you, Owen! That was also a really good movie by the way with Edward James Olmos and Jamie Lou Diamond.
ReplyDeleteOk, I got sidetracked, because of assuming you meant "Highwayman", but you meant what the girls were prepared to do -- and I believe it was Lou Diamond Phillips in the film. That title was a really different meaning of the phrase, wasn't it?
DeleteI needed help with words 3, & 4. I guessed the first word of the sol. correctly, and the second came easily.
ReplyDeleteOops, I better compose in text and c&p to here .
ReplyDeleteHello, I'm here. I posted this morning on the Saturday J. That post covered Friday and Saturday. I had a lot of trouble with Friday and failed to solve the riddle. I needed the full weekend.
Saturday went quick, not so today. I see I had to work at #2- it's actually two different words depending on pronounciation. I struggled with#1 too. Then...
Like Misty I foundered on the riddle thinking somehow they would DRIVE or DEAL. Unlike Friday, the key was a play on words.
Misty, I wish I'd gotten here sooner with a hint or two. As in what do they call the place where. Kids sell lemonade. And, and I say, what connecting three letter words are there. Leaving#3 although I just checked and I got #3 before #1.
Disney had a Rob Roy circa 1960.
WC
Gosh, you brought back some memories. Yes, I remember Richard Todd as Rob Roy, but even more as Robin Hood. He made a lot of enjoyable films like that in the 50's, but then I think his career slacked off somewhat.
DeleteAn Irish ballad is "Whiskey in the Jar". I found at least two versions of the lyrics, But they both start the same.
ReplyDeleteAs I was goin' over
The Cork and Kerry Mountains
I saw Captain Farrell
And his money, he was countin'
I first produced my pistol
And then produced my rapier
I said, "Stand and deliver or the devil he may take ya"