"My dear sir, you simply have not understood the wondrous benefits of our portable, patent-pending plague protection system. Unlike cumbersome masks that protect only your face, our system protects the entire body not only from plague but from pickpockets and from simple blunt trauma. I'm just CERTAIN if you give it a little more of a chance you'll find it to your satisfcati"-
"Plague protection system? IT'S A BARREL . "
"Yes, and as it is well known, barrels can be sealed to be *entirely* waterproof, and, thus, when sealed they provide perfect protection against the ill-humors and agues that cause the Plague."
"And how, pray tell, am I intended to conduct my business about town, whilst SEALED INSIDE A BARREL?"
"We admit, there have been challenges to our system, but I remain confident that given time, we can device some means of -"
The salesman trails off, an immediate consequence of having himself been stuffed in a barrel by the angry customer, said barrel which is then set rolling down the rocky street nearby.
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