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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:16:14 GMT
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- Extracts from 'Galahad at Blandings':
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- Many years previously in their mutual nursery Lady Hermione, even then a
- force to be reckoned with, had once struck her brother Galahad on the
- head with her favourite doll Belinda, laying him out flat as a Dover sole.
- She was wishing she could put her hands on a doll now. Or she would have
- been prepared to settle for a hatchet.
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- When it came to blushing, Monica Simmons was handicapped by the fact that
- her face was obscured by the mud inseparable from her chosen walk in life.
- It is virtually impossible to retain that schoolgirl complexion unimpaired
- if you are looking after pigs all the time. Even more closely than Sandy
- Callender when tidying up Lord Emsworth's study she resembled one of those
- sons of toil buried under tons of soil of whom Gally had spoken. Neverthe-
- less, probing beyond the geological strata Tipton thought he could discern
- a pinkness. Her substantial foot, moreover, had begun to trace coy arabes-
- ques on the turf.
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- In however deep a reverie a pig might be plunged, this young fellow had
- said, passing on the lore he had learned on the Nebraska farm, it could
- always be jerked out of it by what he described as the Master Call, and
- this he had taught to Lord Emsworth. It consisted of the word
- "Pig-hoo-ey", the `Hoo' to start in a low minor tone of two quarter notes
- in four-four time, building gradually from this to a higher note until at
- last the voice soared in full crescendo, reaching F-sharp on the natural
- scale and dwelling for two retarded half-notes, then breaking into a
- shower of accidental grace-notes.
-
- (Nope, that wasn't from the short story "Pig-hoo-ey")
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- | Neeran M. Karnik | "His dearest wish is that you will consent to |
- | Dept. of CompSci.| sign your future correspondence Monica Allsop" |
- | U of Minnesota | -- Tipton in 'Galahad at Blandings' |
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