ThE landlady, Rhoda, had just rented out the last room to Seamus. Seamus seemed fine to begin with, but in the middle of the night Rhoda was awakened by a noisy sound she couldn't make out. It was coming from Seamus's room where he was using an old-fashioned coder, in fact an enigma machine. She grabbed an implement from the kitchen for defence and went into Seamus's room. "What are you up to?", she demanded. "I'm generating encrypted messages to send to the coper about where to restock when next in port. Please don't tell excise and customs". "Well it's a bit noisy for use in the middle of the night. Can you find a way of making it quieter.", she said. It was only then that she realised that the 'weapon' in her hand was only a corer. As she went to put it away, she chuckled to herself and headed for bed.
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