At 10:54 PM +0000 3/11/02, Nick Brooke wrote:
>Peter wrote:
>
>> Your average clan LM can read (unless he/she is very bad), but it's
>> probably a slow process with much keeping track with fingers and
>> moving of lips).
>
>Not in *our* clan, mate! We've *never* seen our clan's lawspeaker's fingers
>or lips moving while he reads. (Mind you, he always does it beneath a large
>yellow oxhide for some obscure reason, so your guess is as good as mine what
>he's *really* getting up to under the covers...)
Was it LM who said that, outside of an oxhide, a book is a man's
best friend? Inside the oxhide, of course, it's too dark to see....
Peter Larsen