The Sweet Smell of Decay (2014)
“Costaeus tells the same story and says there is a similar example in the case of the Black woodpecker, whose body hung up by a string has been observed to shed its old feathers in the Spring and grow new ones. Both these stories are not worthy of belief.
It took us three hours to get to Epsom – the roads were frozen into hard ridges. I was bounced up and down between roof and seat like a rubber ball. After much experimentation I found a comfortable position with one arm wrapped around the f...rame of the coach window and one leg held out straight across the seat. Dowling sat opposite me with his baggy, blue cloth cap pulled down over his ears, eyelids drooping, trying hard to stay awake. His guts must have been full of iron shot. My teeth started to rattle.He was a good man to have on your side, I reflected, even though he was so filthy smelly. When I’d told him what I found at Cocksmouth he had fussed over me like a big, fluffy white hen – assuring me that he would talk to the Mayor, that he would be successful in commandeering enough men to scour the roads between here and Cocksmouth.MoreLess
It took us three hours to get to Epsom – the roads were frozen into hard ridges. I was bounced up and down between roof and seat like a rubber ball. After much experimentation I found a comfortable position with one arm wrapped around the f...rame of the coach window and one leg held out straight across the seat. Dowling sat opposite me with his baggy, blue cloth cap pulled down over his ears, eyelids drooping, trying hard to stay awake. His guts must have been full of iron shot. My teeth started to rattle.He was a good man to have on your side, I reflected, even though he was so filthy smelly. When I’d told him what I found at Cocksmouth he had fussed over me like a big, fluffy white hen – assuring me that he would talk to the Mayor, that he would be successful in commandeering enough men to scour the roads between here and Cocksmouth.MoreLess
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