Re: Memberlang Pages

In message <Pine.GSO.3.96.990117134501.7835A-100000@...>,
Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> writes

>Please do!  I'm sure most of us like to show off a bit and flex our
>translatory muscles as well.
Just as a starter, here's a paragraph which might contain a few
problemettes:

FLIGHT
That evening, I was considering whether I would eat my supper when the
man arrived at our house, hungry and exhausted.  He was tall, with hair
dyed blacker than a crow, after the custom of the North.  While he was
washing I had to dry his clothes for him in front of the fire.  He ate
voraciously and drank a cup of wine which made him sleep.  The next
morning he warned us to leave that place immediately, as the floods
would soon overwhelm it, and it was almost too late to escape.  All five
of us mounted the horses we had bought at the last festival and followed
him, but not without wondering fairly seriously whether he was in fact
insane.  How lucky we were!  Not two days later, the waters destroyed
our house and all the fields beyond it, and most of our neighbours, who
had mocked us fleeing, were pitiably drowned.

--John
--Feeling sadistic

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John Fisher   john@drummond.demon.co.uk   johnf@epcc.ed.ac.uk
Elet Anta website: http://www.drummond.demon.co.uk/anta/
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