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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed!
Do not explicitly reveal any of the actual answer words until after closing time, but embedding them surreptitiously in comment sentences is encouraged.
6 comments:
Sam and Betty found the crypt,
The map said that this was it.
Rodent nests were in the vault,
Thru the rear wall was a fault,
A passageway to treasure?
Or to horror beyond measure?
Would this musty, dusty tomb
Be the treasure hunters' doom?
The subterranean tunnel
Felt like going thru a funnel.
It grew narrower each step,
Slanted downward to a depth,
Till they shoved into a chamber
That held a chill of danger.
Three arches showed a view,
Three gold idols beckoned thru.
As Sam stepped upon the cobble
The whole floor began to wobble.
To counter-balance, Betty leapt,
An acrobat, she was adept.
She saw a pit beyond one arch
Spikes and skeleton parts.
In the next a well was seen
Dropping to a rushing stream.
The third a solid floor,
But to pass that door
Would drop Sam into the well,
Unless into the pit he fell.
They retreated, no idol was worth
Their death below the earth.
The gold was only money.
As they left, the vale was sunny.
Word #4 stumped me, but the riddle solution was so obvious (and unfunny, IMHO) that it was easy to work backwards from that.
When Erato is writing these poems, I'm often just reading along the same as you are. I honestly had no inkling what was beyond that third arch until after I'd described the first two!
I am once again impressed at Erato's doings, especially how such a minor jumble can inspire so epic a creation as today's poem!
I doubt anyone needs help today, either with the four clue words (mauger Owen's issue with #4) or with the solution (that is sure to pop ahead of its turn).
On a completely unrelated matter, the beehive is the site of honey's birth, is it not?
~ OMK
Yes, I had a little trouble with the fourth clue as well. But the solution was no problem, especially with the apostrophe as an indicator. Not a pun, nor a difficult idiom, but just an obvious end for the caption. Ah well, can't always be scintillating, I guess.
The poem is fun, Owen. It made me think a little of 'National Treasure', until Sam and Betty wisely retreated.
I too had a bit of trouble with the fourth Jumble word, and depended on Owen's poem for help. There it was, many thanks, Owen. I too think your long complex poem was an impressive delight this morning. The Jumble solution jumped right out at me, and Ol'Man Keith, you sure had fun with that one in your unrelated matter. I liked the desk and the flags in the cartoon background, and the coin trays--as well as the guys' different outfits and hairdos. Fun cartoon!
Enjoyed the adventure as related by ERATO and transcribed by Owen. I used to start doggerel and let the rhyming tell the story.*
I think I have to have an empty stomach recently filled with caffeine, possibly laced with...wait for it...
French vanilla.
I had to jot down the letters for #4 before the mouse jumped out. As with all, the Riddle-Solution jumped out just like J's 1,2,3.
WC
* I really exhausted Casey and Twas the Night...
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