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Pope Benevolent Absolves the Jews
After having been scouted by Jews from neighboring moshavim and pointed out to Franciscan and Dominican monks, Boris the half-feral boar, and messiah, was coaxed out into the open and away from the compost pile. Outside the fence, two regular-Joe Jews held a magic satchel with thirty pieces of corn. Boris, frothing at the jaws while snorting in the dirt for the golden nuggets, was unaware of the trap that had been set for him. And he had fought off all comers to the treasure that was rightfully his, too, now cascading over the fence one kernel at a time. Two hooded Dominican monks, wearing dusty black cassocks, with long frayed ropes tied at the waists, jumped out from behind the withered fig tree and onto the Berkshire boar. They dropped a rope aroun
