But if you've got gunky fill like BSS and you clue it ambiguously, now the solver is spending more actual time with your gunky fill than they are with your glorious fill, and what's the good of that? Anyway, I wrote in MSS at 9D: Degs. Never a fun way to spend time on a Friday, or any day, but it happens. I actually left out part of the process here-a minor delay up top after I tripped over some ambiguous short stuff. I love it! YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE! Actually, you should have, this is Friday, this is what Friday is about, you did your job here, thank you very much. The coin gave its name to the town of Trois-Pistoles, Quebec, where according to local legend an explorer lost a goblet worth three pistoles in the river. It was also referred to by Raphael Sabatini who wrote 'swashbuckling' tales of the 17th and 18th centuries in his book, St Martin's Summer. He has his character state, in The Three Musketeers set in the 1620s, that one hundred pistoles were worth a thousand livres tournois when Athos bargains for the horse he takes to the battle of La Rochelle. The coin appears repeatedly in Dumas' fiction. The derivation is uncertain the term may come from the Czech píšťala ("whistle", a term for a hand cannon ), or from the Italian town of Pistoia either way, it was originally spelled pistolet and originated in military slang, and probably has the same root as pistol. One pistole was worth approximately ten livres or three écus, but higher figures are also seen. The name was also given to the Louis d'Or of Louis XIII of France, and to other European gold coins of about the value of the Spanish coin. Pistole is the French name given to a Spanish gold coin in use from 1537 it was a doubloon or double escudo, the gold unit.
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