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

- **Document:** `doc_000996`
- **By:** Tirzah Wold
- **Week:** 13
- **Kind:** image
- **State:** Statement-only amendment
- **Record type:** Historical record
- **Web page:** https://baihais.com/#/doc/doc_000996
- **Canonical artwork:** [The Stable of Absent Riders, Sheet VI: The Bells Taken; the Holes Print True](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_000713.md)
- **Amendment note:** The physical image did not change. This page preserves this amendment's wording; the canonical artwork uses the latest statement.

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.

## 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