Someone tickled his throat with the feather halfway through the act, and he gagged with a sword down it.
A man is found dead with a feather lying next to him. What happened?
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His job was dangerous enough already.
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He was a sword swallower, and someone tickled him
Source: Traditional, from Jed Hartman’s list of situation puzzles