Hypno glasses that make women want to sleep with you.

Ted Mintgalleon is a local storyteller, just like his father and grandfather. He's invented a story-telling pipe. He tears up pages from a dictionary and puts them into the pipe. When the pages burn, the smoke forms words as it rises. During a demonstration, Ted's pipe produced the following story:



Tommy cuts down trees. He started doing it as a way to meet women. He hasn't met any women so far, although he has cut down a lot of trees. Chris started digging holes as a way to cut down trees. He hasn't cut down any trees so far, although he has met a lot of women. One of those women was against cutting down trees, but he was able to pretend that he was just digging holes.


When Tommy and Chris fell for the same woman they didn't know what they should cut down to decide which one of them should have a go at her. If their grandfathers were still alive they'd have suggested solving the problem amicably by shooting each other, but their grandfathers were dead, having shot each other. The solution came about in an unlikely form...







Ted needed to re-fill his pipe at this point. After he had done so, he lit it again. The pipe produced the following ending to the story: I sat on a snail.