As parchment was scarce, they scraped the writing off old manuscripts in order to transcribe upon them the divine word.

Thus throughout the breadth of Penguinia Bibles blossomed forth like roses on a bush.
A monk of the order of St.Benedict, Ermold the Penguin, had himself alone defaced four thousand Greek and Latin manuscripts so as to copy out the Gospel of St.John four thousand times.

Thus the masterpieces of ancient poetry and eloquence were destroyed in great numbers.

Historians are unanimous in recognising that the Penguin convents were the refuge of learning during the Middle Ages.
Unending wars between the Penguins and the Porpoises filled the close of this period.

It is extremely difficult to know the truth concerning these wars, not because accounts are wanting, but because there are so many of them.