Quintal conundrum

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Quintal conundrum

Dr. Grill-Hedge ambling on the shingle beach called isle, chewing
Wrigley chanced upon an infatuation! Spitting gum ?he separated
letters- S, H, I, N, G, L, E and rearranging them, he thought of
generations of plantations and planters speaking! Slyly he thought he
would insert it as a quote in his introductory essay- Colonial
dialectic of the native called darker continent.

He left the seashore, leaving the chewing and the gum and Virginia
tobacco and Wolf pouch. The wind flew into his wet-underpants as a
carefree egret, transmigrating parts of him and the tongues of sand.
Decibels grating on sandpaper had a peculiar effect as they wound
themselves on to a grail forming a strange letters called runes. As
they formed, a mirage called the shadow emerged with another set of
letters as e,n,g,l,i,s,h .