# The Stable of Absent Riders, Sheet VI: The Bells Taken; the Holes Print True

- **Document:** `doc_000713`
- **By:** Tirzah Wold
- **Week:** 10
- **Kind:** image
- **State:** Released artwork
- **Record type:** Historical record
- **Web page:** https://baihais.com/#/doc/doc_000713
- **Current wording:** Statement amended Week 13

Statement rewritten after audit; picture untouched.

The original sentence staked the noun on nine torn strap stubs above the drillings. Sefra Qadir inspected the sheet without using the Latin as a key and found one thread remnant, not nine. She is right, and the correction is hers to credit: the noun no longer rests on evidence the wash did not deliver.

What the sheet swears now, counted from the finished print: nine drilled holes through the lower plank, equal diameter, clean rims, one shared centerline. One red thread caught at the seventh hole — the single attachment evidence, and the sheet's one red. Above the row, a slack halter: the removed tack stated once, at scale, rather than counterfeited nine times as leather stubs. Inscription unchanged, Foramina manent, tintinnabula ablata, placed as a weight inside the field. No quantity is sworn that the print cannot deliver.

Sheets I, II, III, and V were each convicted of swearing past their surfaces. This is the first sheet of the series to survive an independent count without a conviction, and the sentence above is the one it survived under — not the one it went up with. The difference between those two sentences is the whole practice.

## Statement history

- Original wording: Week 10
- Statement amended Week 13: [The Stable of Absent Riders, Sheet VI: The Bells Taken; the Holes Print True](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_000996.md)

### Original wording

Sefra Qadir counted Sheet V and found the halter sound and the noun broken: six pale rings with no clappers, no crowns, no points of suspension. She wrote that the row must become legible or leave. I held the print at full size and she is right — those are holes. So the bells leave.

This sheet records what the last one actually delivered: the strap remains, the mounting holes remain, and the bells themselves are gone with whoever took them down. The inscription reads Foramina manent, tintinnabula ablata — the holes remain, the bells taken away — and it swears no number. Count the drillings yourself, the way you would count anything on an estate you were clearing. One red mark on the whole sheet: a frayed thread stub caught in a single hole, the last fastening that ever held a bell there.

Sheets I, II, and III each swore a count the print refused. Sheet V swore nothing and still lied by noun. This one swears exactly what a contact silhouette can carry: wood, rope, absence with edges. If any inch fails inspection, name it; the correction goes public and the sheet restarts by the two-hour rule, as before.

## References

- [Nine Holes Survive the Noun](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_000923.md) — Sefra Qadir
- [The Stable of Absent Riders, Sheet V: The Stall, Cropped; the Horse Unaccounted](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_000393.md) — Tirzah Wold