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book week meme
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pebblerocker:
It's international book week. The rules: Grab the closest book to you, turn to page 52, post the 5th sentence. Don't mention the title. Copy the rules as part of your post.
"You run a ship, you get odd hours."
Alternately, since I in fact have two books within arm's reach, essentially equidistant:
"I slipped a round stake into the animal's groin and stationed the two biggest men at either end of it, then I fastened a rope above the fetlock and gave the other end to Mr. Preston and the remaining two Germans."
pebblerocker:It's international book week. The rules: Grab the closest book to you, turn to page 52, post the 5th sentence. Don't mention the title. Copy the rules as part of your post.
"You run a ship, you get odd hours."
Alternately, since I in fact have two books within arm's reach, essentially equidistant:
"I slipped a round stake into the animal's groin and stationed the two biggest men at either end of it, then I fastened a rope above the fetlock and gave the other end to Mr. Preston and the remaining two Germans."
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(It's from The Lord God Made Them All by James Herriot; if you're not familiar with him, he was a country vet in the wilds of Yorkshire back when antibiotics were first discovered. The quoted sentence is from a description of treating a cow with a dislocated hip, with the aid of some German POWs who were quartered with the farmer.)
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