ear Editor:
And it came to pass, a fortnight after the angel voices had departed Elora, that the fiends of hell congregated by the river. They said, “Let us make a mighty din and cause it to be all the greater with cunningly devised machines.”
Many of the good people of the village had fled to the Great Lakes to the west and to the north to escape the noise-some pestilence. Great was the force thereof. On the third day, so tremendous was the tumult of song and shouting that the foundations of the houses quaked. Yea, to the outermost parts of Elora, even the deaf could feel the shaking thereof.
Then the Lord was awakened and said, “What is this abomination, which polluteth mine ears?
“Let us gather up my winds from the north and bring them hither.”
About the tenth hour, the raging thunder came nigh and vanquished the cacophony of the revellers. A mighty deluge fell upon the fiends of hell and drowned their celebration. Only their whimpers remained and peace returned to Elora.
Stephen Barrett,
Elora