Montag, 26. November 2012

It is a fact that the best remedy for a scumble hangover is a hair of the dog

 It is a fact that the best remedy for a scumble hangover is a hair of the dog, although it should more accurately be called a tooth of the shark or possibly a tread of the bulldozer. 
But Mort merely went on pointing and said, in a trembling voice, 'Can't you see it? It's coming through the wall! It's coming right through the wall!' 
'A lot of things come through the wall after your first drink of scumble. Green hairy things, usually.' 
'It's the mist! Can't you hear it sizzling?' 
'A sizzling mist, is it?' The landlord looked at the wall, which was quite empty and unmysterious except for a few cobwebs. The urgency in Mort's voice unsettled him. He would have preferred the normal scaly monsters. A man knew where he stood with them. 
'It's coming right across the room! Can't you feel it?' 
The customers looked at one another. Mort was making them uneasy. One or two of them admitted later that they did feel something, rather like an icy tingle, but it could have been indigestion. 
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'Look,' said the landlord, 'a joke's a joke, but -' 
'You had a green shirt on before!' 
The landlord looked down. There was an edge of terror in his voice. 
'Before what?' he quavered. To his astonishment, and before his hand could complete its surreptitious journey towards the blackthorn stick, Mort lunged across the bar and grabbed him by the apron. 
'You've got a green shirt, haven't you?' he said. 'I saw it, it had little yellow buttons!' 
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Mort let him go and spun round. 
'They're all sitting in different places! Where's the man who was sitting by the fire? It's all changed!' 
He ran out through the door and there was a muffled cry from outside. He dashed back, wild-eyed, and confronted the horrified crowd. 
'Who changed the sign? Someone changed the sign!' 
The landlord nervously ran his tongue across his lips. 
'After the old king died, you mean?' he said. 
Mort's look chilled him, the boy's eyes were two black pools of terror. 
'It's the name I mean!' 
'We've - it's always been the same name,' said the man, looking desperately at his customers for support. 'Isn't that so, lads? The Duke's Head.' 
There was a murmured chorus of agreement. 
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The listeners heard hoof beats in the yard, which grew fainter and then disappeared entirely, just as though a horse had left the face of the earth. 
There was no sound inside the inn. Men tried to avoid one another's gaze. No one wanted to be the first to admit to seeing what he thought he had just seen. 
So it was left to the landlord to walk unsteadily across the room and reach out and run his fingers across the familiar, reassuring wooden surface of the door. It was solid, unbroken, everything a door should be. 
Everyone had seen Mort run through it three times. He just hadn't opened it.
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I m not a doctor

 "I'm not a doctor. Do I have to sign anything?" 
"Not if your word's any good. You'll have to sign for the specimen if you need to keep it, that's all." 
"Of course I'll help you. I'm not uncaring." 
"Dr. Pilcher?" 
"That's true," Pilcher said. "He's not uncaring." 
"Confidence?" 
"I won't tell." 
"Pilch isn't a doctor yet either," Roden said. "We're on an equal educational footing. But notice how he allowed you to call him that." Roden placed the tip of his forefinger against his chin, as though pointing to his judicious expression. "Give us all the details.?The Nike Air Huarache nike">http://www.free-runs.com/womens-nike-free-womens-nike-free-run-3-c-6_27.html">nike free run 3 Basketball 2012 becomes the first court kicks to offer this level of 'natural' feel, this application of one of the original colorways support for the old saying about things changing while they stay the same.. What might seem irrelevant to you could be vital information to an expert." 
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"It's Buffalo Bill, I heard it on the radio," Roden said. 
"You didn't hear about the insect on the radio, did you?" Starling said. 
"No, but they said Elk River--- are you coming in from that today, is that why you're so late?" 
"Yes," Starling said. 
"You must be tired, do you want some coffee?" Roden said. 
"No, thank you." 
"Water?" 
"No." 
"A Coke?" 
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"I don't know." A little shrill, that. "I don't know," she said again, to take the edge off it. "He'll do it again as soon as he can." 
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The insect was long and it looked like a mummy. It was sheathed in a semitransparent cover that followed its general outlines like a sarcophagus. The appendages were bound so tightly against the body, they might have been carved in low relief. The little face looked wise. 
"In the first place, it's not anything that would normally infest a body outdoors, and it wouldn't be in the water except by accident," Pilcher said. "I don't know how familiar you are with insects or how much you want to hear." 
"Let's say I don't know diddly. I want you to tell me the whole thing." 
"Okay, this is a pupa, an immature insect, in a chrysalis--- that's the cocoon that holds it while it transforms itself from a larva into an adult," Pilcher said.
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