"Esther M. Friesner - Chicks 04 - The Chick Is In The Mail" - читать интересную книгу автора (Friesner Esther M)

Under Goodwife Eyebright's verbal barrage, Zoli's shoulder trembled and her sword drooped by
degrees, leaving a hole in her defensive posture fit to drive an oxcart through. . . .

тАФfrom "Troll by Jury"


ALSO IN THIS SERIES:
Chicks in Chainmail
edited by Esther Friesner

Did You Say Chicks?!
edited by Esther Friesner

Chicks and Chained Males
edited by Esther Friesner

Mathemagicsby Margaret Ball



BAEN BOOKS by ESTHER FRIESNER
Child of the Eagle

Wishing Season




Introduction
Esther Friesner
Tradition is a wonderful thing. It gives us a sense of history, of belonging to something greater than
ourselves, but it most of all gives us someone and/or something other than ourselves to blame for the
embarrassing stuff we feel compelled to do. Yes sir, every time you find yourself serving the
fruitcake-that-tastes-like-a-doorstop at Christmas, or saying, "Prithee, my comely wench, but mightst
thou servest me an hotte dogge with ye workes?" at a local Ren Faire, or fighting the neighborhood
raccoons for property rights to a swiftly rotting jack-o'-lantern at Hallowe'en, or singing the Whiffenpoof
Song at the big Harvard-Yale game when you wouldn't know a whiffen if it poofed all over you, you can
always defend your actions with the proud and clarion cry: "It's atradition !"

(You can also try blaming it on your kids, if you prefer, but that won't work with the Whiffenpoof Song.
Even kids aren'tthat gullible.)

Now here at theChicks in Chainmail series of hard-hitting and culturally enriched anthologies, we've
got a little tradition of our own. We call it Blaming Someone for the Title of the Current Book. Your
humble and obedient editor took full responsibilityтАФand rightly soтАФfor the series concept as well as for
the title of the first book, but since then, although the concept has remained true and fixed as the pole
star, the blame for the titles of individual volumes in the series has gone skipping merrily hither, thither,
and yon.

So let it be known, now and for all time, that the person who came up with the title forthis one is Mr.