From
The Book of Yelps and Growls
An old man sat on a boat near the middle of the widest point on the
Rhine River. He growled at the water and scowled up at the moon. The sky was filled with
fairnesses, but also with the most horrible visions of a bloodthirsty
pegasus. In the sky the pegasus fought with a yelping
Spanish coyote over the fate of the old man in the boat. The
Spanish coyote was finally slain because the old man distracted it from the battle by winning a game of
draughts on the river's shore with a local gambler.
The old man collected his winnings of twenty marks from the local and as he rowed back to the center of the river to wait for the signal from the moon, the wicked
pegasus swept down and killed him with a kick from his hoof.
The old man is buried with the
Spanish coyote on the northern shore at the widest point of the
Rhine River. If you can go there, you will find it marked with a tree that grows out from under a crag.