Life in Newburgh on Ythan

By Talpa

Dragon v. Bonnacon

This morning, Daisy was showing Boris, the new man in her life, around the garden, quite unaware that a red-eyed dragon was lurking in the flower bed. Thankfully, Daisy is the last in a long line of Bonnacons* and as everyone knows, a Bonnacon outguns a Dragon.

Sadly, however, Boris is now having very serious doubts about the wisdom of any amorous adventures with Daisy.

* Pliny the Elder, writing in the first century AD (Natural History, Book 8, 16) was the first to mention the Bonnacon, or the Bonasus as he called it. It has, he tells us, the mane of a horse but otherwise resembles a bull. It has horns that curve back so they are useless for fighting; when attacked, it runs away, while releasing a trail of dung that can cover three furlongs or 3 acres according the the Aberdeen Bestiary. Contact with the dung burns pursuers as though they had touched fire.

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