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Once upon a time the Great Lord of all Pondmeisters, King Lusk, decreed that there should be a grand gathering of all the members of the Pond Kingdom. And so it came to be that they gathered in the Great Hall of Camelot, er, Agincourt, errrr, Arlington � nigh quite all but yet a great many of the Lords and Ladies, Knights and Squires and Pages, Wizards and Sorcerors and Alchemists, Counts and Dukes and Marquisesesss of Ponddom. And it was good. Really, really, good.

Now in the days before this great gathering, Sir Eric, one of the wisest and noblest of King Lusk's knights had bequeathed a fund to advance the study and knowledge of pondmeistering, amongst the Jackrabbit folk. These Jackrabbits live in the North of Ponddom, in a land contrarily known as "South Dakota", and study the arts and sciences of pondmeistering under the tutelage of the great wizard Dr. Dave. It was in this land (as well as others), long ago, that Sir Eric's dear departed Father had instilled in his Son a love for the outdoors in general and the world beneath the waves in specific, so it was fitting that Sir Eric endow a fund to advance the scholarship of ponds amongst the Jackrabbits of SDSU.

When good King Lusk caught word of the pond study endowment, he queried the great Jackrabbit wizard ("What you talkin' about, Willis?") re the opportunity of raising funds among the assembled members of Ponddom whilst they were in the Great Hall of Arlington, via a method he dubbed a "silent auction." The wizard Dr. Dave allowed as this might be a good idea, and so it was.

Verily, when the folk of Ponddom waiting eagerly for the assembly at Arlington were informed of the silent auction, they responded by bringing all manner of things to be auctioned off. Trinkets and baubles, nay, these items were of great value and varied nature � pumpers of aeration and players of mp3s, casters of monofilament and throwers of fish feed pellets, lures of bass and posters of life-sized John Wayne, and hats � oh, a great many hats!

In the accompanying photos thou canst observe some of the participants in the Grand Auction. The Senior Wizard, Glazendorf the Grey, tied many a fly which was then auctioned off. Indeed, he exceeded the output of flies that couldst be expected of a mere mortal man, I believe through the use of a spell knownst only as "ibuprofen." Glazendorf can be seen wearing one of the many SDSU hats that were available to pondmeisters at the Great Hall, in exchange for a nominal donation to the Jackrabbit Pond Study fund.

The great knight, Sir Ray of B.A.S.S. (seen above with King Lusk's own Princess Debbie), attended the Grand Assembly and both donated and bid on many items for the auction. He also wowed the Lords and Ladies, especially the Ladies, of the assembly with many a tall tale of his quests in search of the great dragon "Largemouth." Perhaps the finest item Sir Ray donated was the tri-bladed sword with which he first captured enough of the "Largemouth" dragons to wrest victory in a tournament. Perhaps the finest item Sir Ray won in the auction and took home from the auction was the portrait shown above in the photo, of a grand knight in a great struggle with a Largemouth dragon in the waters of Mississippi. It has never been afore mentioned, but you humble narrator has always felt that the knight thus portrayed might be Sir Eric's father.

At any rate, the assembled folk of ponddom (shown above) gathered a great many pieces of silver via the "silent auction", which was then gifted to the Jackrabbit folk for the study of pondmeistering under the wise visage of the wizard Dr. Dave. And now it seems that this year's endowment hath been spent wisely, being used to assemble great engines of fish tankery. And the wisest of Dr. Dave's current knowledge apprentices, Lady Melissa of Wuellner, can use these great engines to further the knowledge of feeding competition between the Smallmouthed dragon and the Walleyed dragon, brother and cousin of the Largemouth dragon aforementioned, as part of the grand quest to herself become a Senior Wizard such as Dr. Dave. We wish luck to the future Dr. Melissa! Huzzah!

Your humble narrator,
Sir Theo of Jaeger Wald