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...(picnic) at which they eat and toast the departed, and surreptitiously bury them. Sailors do this at sea: sew the body up in a shroud, drop it in a strongchest full of ale or brine to keep the air from it so no smell, then sail away on their next voyage and...
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Heh. I KNEW you'd pounce on that.
Most folks do the "coffer, strongchest, handkeg, cask, greatcask, shouldersack" measures, but there are bulk measures. My notes are fragmentary at best.
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“So the King wants the old silver coffer AND the little green box from the upper compartment of the black strongchest, but nothing else?”
“Yes. And no snooping into anything, or the watchghosts will sear us a new one.”
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