No Messier and the Horses of Nineveh

10 years passed and no messier as he had agreed returned to the house of his father who provided a great feast in his honor. After the feast was over the father and mother mounted their throne like seats at one side of the great hall to hear him give an account of himself. No messier told them how he lost much of his gold after being badly beaten by two well spoken men with beautiful white horses fleet as the wind. He said: "I must admit of a disastrous handling it fled indeed from my inexperienced hands even as a wild hair flees at the first opportunity"