All through the Court, there was a constant drone of talking from
How about if we arrange for a special royal guard to stand near the back of
>the seated feasters (who would not be served until Court was over, anyway).
the Court hall and, whenever people start to chatter, thonk them in the head
with something? (That's an almost-period technique, from early American
Puritan church services. Church officers sometimes got a staff with a
wooden ball on the end to thonk talkers, and a feather to wake up
sleepers...)
Jemma
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