Earl Stillwater's Essay, Part 3 (Continued)

If you come across a wyrm with a fairly regular eating habit and fiber intake, you can take advantage of it's bowel movements, scheduling the times of day when it takes a dump. These are your golden moments of opportunity, for it's bodily orifices are wide open and vulnerable to the stroke of the sharp adventurer. Indeed, I was witness to a master stroke by one of the skilled swordsmen of Gana, who plunged his weapon into the soft spot, as the dragon yielded his copious and pungent brown treasure.

Yes, the entire purpose of the exercise was to get the dragon to fertilize the fields of Gana. The wise farmers of Gana have long ago learned that, by attracting the dragon at the proper time of year, and provoking it properly, that not only can the thatch that retards proper growth of the most profitable commercial herbs, vegetables, and grain be removed throught the action of the dragon's fiery breath, but the fields can be fertilized, free of charge, with the richest and most fertile manure known to mankind - dragon guano!

The tables below, compiled by in a pamplet by the Gana Agricultural and Mechanical Institute, Eastern Shire Extension, prove beyond a doubt that dragon guano far surpasses even bat guano and unicorn manure for its potent fertilizing ability ....

1. "Well, that was a perfect waste of time", thought Fred.
2. Sir Fred had found his quest - in search of that most precious treasure, dragon guano.
3. Thus began the guano cartel, one of the most inflential institutions of the Havenheim.

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