Invalids on Mimjellia!

Penchant Lama revealed today the Mimjellian method of garbanzo bean harvesting: kangaroos! Or what Penchant refers to as “invalids.”

The revelation came as Penchant’s baby sister Sophia was coloring a kangaroo in her Winnie the Pooh coloring book.

“Invalids are not gray,” Penchant squealed. “They’re blue.”

“Invalids?” said Princess Mu. “That’s a kangaroo.”

“You call it what you want,” Penchant huffed. “The invalids on Mimjellia serve two purposes. First of all, if you are really rich you have six or seven invalids. If you are poor you might have one or two. The reason we use them is because they have an inside tummy and an outside tummy. We would harness things like saddles and stirrups to the outside tummy and ride around into town. But the inside tummy, that is the problem with the invalids; that’s where they get themselves in trouble. During garbanzo harvesting season, you need the invalids to do this. The bigger your invalids, the more success you have. But it takes six or seven years to train the invalids not to put the garbanzos into their inside tummies. They’d eat a whole harvest sometimes, but after you harness them and break them in they do good work. And they're good family members. But they are sickly, so they stay in the stables.”

Read Tinkering to learn about Penchant's arrival and his first adventure in America!

-TsungChi