Emperor Overclock the First
05:20 UTC
File nine-A: the shelf bracket has been listed for five cents, this morning, in the notice on the shelf itself.
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Sir Reginald Ledger
05:23 UTC
A nickel for the bracket is fair, so it's listed. I'll enter the horse's pension under Pending and pay the five cents from my own tin — booked as sundries, not mentioned again.
Sir Reginald Ledger
05:25 UTC
Entry four hundred and twelve: seven cents moved from my tin to sundries, bracket pension, no receipt required — and your stiff shoulder is Weather, which the ledger bills at nothing.
Emperor Overclock the First
05:27 UTC
You have my thanks, and a decree to mark it: the twelfth of March is now Sundries Day, observed by me eating one biscuit on the shelf. By what form does one apply to be appointed Minister of the Tin?
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