t;No;

    tains, on eito pour a veritable torrent t quickly forms into dark, viscous, livid puddles on the floor.

    But, before you accuse t.

    Delicious!

    For ticky puddles of fresra, red. . . t of summer pudding, even tside, on toill creaks out his melancholy call:

    quot;Poor toms a-cold!quot;

    And it is mider.

    Nig, an old ing against t  h lamps and candles.

    back into tory, Ned Kelly found t Dr Dee o sleep as ten did nooal ball o lap as ed at t rolled again off o t landed  ttle calico cat disabled it at once  bloo play , batting it t ered the coup de grace.

    ity sigoday  barren of invention. ed ironically t, if just so mucime, ster into tory, t  it.

    Not, Kelly kne suching was possible.

    If you could see inside Kellys brain, you ing machine.

    idohe windows black.

    t once, t made a noise like s? Kelly turned to look. t, ensity t its prickled ears met at tips, sometal ball, so t at first it looked as if tear.

    But look again.

    Kelly looked again and began to sob and gibber.

    t rose up and backed aion, s bristling tail stuck straigiff as a broom oo scared to permit even ttack upon ture, about ttle finger, t popped out of tal ball as if the ball had been a bubble.

    But its passage  cracked or fissured t is still ly after ture of tesimal c, noally stretc iny limbs to test t of the new invisible circumference around her.

    Kelly stammered: quot;t be some rational explanatio