The Horse Feathers Inn, or, a Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Privy From the introduction: Thunder rolled around the deep grey sky leaving booming echoes to dance back and forth through the trees. In compliment, eye watering bursts of lightning lanced from the raging storm clouds that had tumbled across the sky all day. A seemingly oceans worth of rain had drenched the countryside, turning the road into a quagmire of mud.