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- From: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu (Rao Akella)
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- Subject: Re: Pitchfork?
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- Date: 24 Jan 93 22:53:46 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan23.172601.14248@news.cs.indiana.edu>, "rajesh kamath" <rkamath@cs.indiana.edu> writes:
- >
- > As for the Mulliner story where the hero is chased by a mob (led
- > ominously by a man wielding a pitchfork), it's THE COMING OF GEORGE
- > and our hero is George Mulliner ("Meet Mr. Mulliner")
-
- That was a well-written precis of the incident, and as usual, it opened up the
- flood-gates of memory...
-
- > Unfortunately, a rather tuneful conversation with a white-faced lady
- > in a train causes our hero to be mistaken for a escapee from the local
- > asylum...
-
- Wasn't that when Our Hero tries to offer the little old lady some tea, and
- determined to succeed in making his offer, remembers his doctor's advice about
- trying to overcome his stammer by singing it, launches into his invitation with
- "...tea for two, two for tea..." The lady, as I remember, pulls the emergency
- cord after making some "bubbling" noises for a while :-)
-
- Of course, Mr. Mulliner's relatives do get some odd advice from their doctors
- to alleviate their problems. For example, in "Mulliner Nights: The Smile That
- Wins," there's the case of his nephew Adrian Mulliner, the detective, who is
- advised by his specialist to overcome his dyspepsia by smiling! Since he's a
- detective, and has a particularly "sardonic and sinister leer," which seems to
- convey the suggestion that he knows all, the story has every guilty party (and
- there are lots of g. p.) confessing and coming clean as soon as they happen to
- catch the "smile" :-)
-
- -- Rao Akella <rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu, rao%moose@umnacvx.bitnet>
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