Monday, 20 April 2009

Jean Fragonard The Swing

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shed was stuffed full of bits of hive, mysterious tor-ture instruments for extracting honey, old jars, and a small stove on which a grubby teapot steamed next to a huge saucepan.
He took her silence for acceptance, and poured out two mugs.
“Is it herbal?” she quavered.
“Buggered if I know.“How do you actually milk them?”
The unicorn prowled through the forest. It felt blind, and out of place. This wasn’t a proper land. The sky was blue, not flaming with all the colors of the aurora. And time was passing. To a creature not bom subject to time, it was a sen-sation not unakin to falling.
It could feel its mistress inside its head, too. That was worse even than the passing of time. It’s just brown leaves out of a tin.”Magrat looked uncertainly into a mug which pure tannin was staining brown. But she rallied. One thing you had to do when you were queen, she knew, was Put Commoners at their Ease. She cast around for some easeful question.“It must be very interesting, being a beekeeper,” she said.100LOR06 ft/YO LftQ/£6“Yes. It is.”“One’s often wondered—““What?”

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