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From the distance there emerged a small form that raced toward the party. At first they thought it was a squirrel or possibly a wolf. Aime or Eomer, the party was still not sure what he was to be called, cried out that it looked like a small dog. "No!" replied Alli, "It's not a dog, although it is oddly shaped like one. I think instead that it is a....I think....a professor!"
Sure enough, as the figure grew near they could make out that while it had the face of a pug, it had the body of a normal Man. Upon his head there was a fedora and at his waist there hung a whip. He stopped before them and bowed deeply. Pulling himself erect he cried:
"I have thought of a profound question! Why do Dwarven women have beards? Is it because:
a) they want to keep warm
b) they need somewhere to keep their soup
c) the author felt that beards on Dwarven women was the best way to transmit Faerie to the reader
d) that's just the way it is?"
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