I say fair-sized all the time of all sorts of things.
The Twisted King (no relation to the Fisher King) had a good diet,
they say, so he might have been expected to go higher than many As
a man of some time 5, 9 and a quarter I would of course look down on
him
though I really don't think I'd have wanted to shove a sword up his
bottom
glad you like it
L
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fair-sized, this is only said of fish, isn't it, Lawrence. The
recently unearthed twisted king at 5' 8" might, by 5-600 odd year
standards, be said to have been so but no one did, did they. anyway
not fair enough, epecially only 0.5sworth for choosy chien. liked the
salty picture presented.
Bill
On 06/02/2013, at 4:44 PM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
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> Crossing the low dune to the beach, the dog
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> turned west. That seemed deliberate. I gave
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> her some slack; and was pulled, following, to see
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> many gulls in gaggle at the head, a spit,
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> and the gulls were spitting! so, possibilities
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> of beached fish. As we neared, they all skittered
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> and rose; the dog leapt into a big rush --
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> a fair-sized southern whiting pecked half clean
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> on gull-foot-trampled sand, and she galloping off --
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> And seemed reluctant to return. At last
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> came back to see what I was pointing to.
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> She sniffed but was unsure. Too much spattering
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> of grit? It never bothered her before --
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> I bent down, inhaling; and lifted it;
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> half fish, its bottom side still unblemished,
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> smelling fresh to me; tossed it into waves,
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> the dog after it, jumping in, sniffing;
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> and, after some minutes, she thrust her head
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> underwater, and pulled it out, dropped it
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> at the sea edge and danced away and back and
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> around but never touched the corpse again.
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> Richard Kessling / Lawrence Upton
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