From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2012 #1409 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe:mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website:http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Tuesday, September 18 2012 Volume 2012 : Number 1409 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- The weather and everyone's health [c Karma ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 02:30:08 +0000 From: c Karma Subject: The weather and everyone's health Like this???? Will it rain, do you think? '"The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.'"'"But in Hartford, Hereford and Hampshire,hurricanes hardly ever happen.'" How awfully funny. What is wrong with that, young man? I bet I got it right. Smashing. Has it suddenly turned chilly? I do hope we won't have any unseasonable cold spells. They bring on so much influenza. And the whole of our family is susceptible to it. My aunt died of influenza, so they said. But it's my belief they done the old woman in. Done her in? Yes, Lord love you. Why should she die of influenza... ...when she'd come through diphtheria right enough the year before. Fairly blue with it she was. They all thought she was dead. But my father, he kept ladling gin down her throat. Then she come to so sudden she bit the bowl off the spoon. Dear me! Now what call would a woman with that strength in her... ...have to die of influenza? And what become of her new straw hat that should have come to me? Somebody pinched it. And what I say is: Them 'as pinched it, done her in. Done her in? '"Done her in,'" did you say? Whatever does it mean? That's the new small talk. '"To do somebody in'" means to kill them. But you surely don't believe your aunt was killed? Do I not? Them she lived with would have killed her for a hatpin, let alone a hat. But it can't have been right for your father... ...to pour spirits down her throat like that. It might have killed her. Not her. Gin was mother's milk to her. Besides, he poured so much down his own throat he knew the good of it. Do you mean that he drank? Drank? My word. Something chronic. Here, what are you sniggering at? The new small talk. You do it so awfully well. Well, if I was doing it proper, what was you sniggering at? Have I said anything I oughtn't?Not at all, my dear. Well, that's a mercy anyhow. CC"He comes for conversation." - JM ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2012 #1409 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------