Minutes of the Biweekly Conclave of the Kindly Contrivers of Clavicus Vile, Abanas Smeed reporting. Eight o'clock: Meeting called to order. Eight o'one: Meeting called to disorder. Eight o'five: Shouting subsides. Eight o'six: First point of order brought before the Conclave, devise appropriate response to the village of Sundercliff's plea for new farming implements before First Seed. Eight Thirty: Discussion interrupted by unruly fidgeting. You know who you are. Eight Forty: Fooligan excused to address embarrassing rash. Breakthrough reached in Sundercliff dilemma. Nine o'clock: Sundercliff proposal brought to vote. Nine o'five: Sundercliff proposal accepted by majority vote. Nine Fifteen: Jeering of opposing voters subsides. Nine Seventeen: Second point of order brought before the Concla