Millard Niblet Burl Weber Micklerelf was born into perspicacity during the Volution of the Priards, on the Eve of St. Sphagny; after Major Tense-Floyd Abner released the Dover Munchmen into the twilight of the cormorant; when the forests of Eldonspank Heath purpled in squalid torpor. He toiled languidly in lugubrious chunder, never mincing a word when a dance by Peckerlight would win the day. Lo, and there were chillwills in the night and Meyercrantz Rockducks by the dozens in the Dexters' pond to the north. A far light shone, and Wickenham, the plate-peddler, waffled...more
