SC - lentils! lentils!

[Jenne Heise]

> 	"It was a silver cow.
> 	"Now, when I say, 'cow', don't go getting carried away with the idea of
> the sort of innocent, friendly cudster you see chewing grass in an
> amiable way in the nearest meadow. This was a dark, sinister,
> underworld, plug-ugly sort of cow, the sort of cow that would spit out
> the side of its mouth for tuppence. Its back opened on a hinge for
> filling, and its tail curved up and fused with the spine to afford a
> handle for the cream-lover to grasp. The mere sight of it seemed to take
> me into another and a dreadful world."  

And of course all _I_ can think of, now, is the various silverplated implements (cigar
cutter, brandy decanter, etc.) in the shape of horses in the possesion of one of the
characters in _Mistress Masham's Repose_ by TS White...

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Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise	      jenne at mail.browser.net
disclaimer: i speak for no-one and no-one speaks for me.
"It's no use trying to be clever-- we are all clever here; just try
to be kind -- a little kind." F.J. Foakes-Jackson