dozen-bottle

Updated: May 6, 2025

By its markings, it was a dozen-bottle box of spot-remover the stuff used to get out spots the standard cleaning fluid in the dry-cleaning machine did not remove. The man heaved the box, with the hand with which he had rubbed his twitching eye. The other man raised a hand the one not holding a revolver to rub at his own eye, which also seemed to twitch agitatedly.

Murray Leinster - The Ambulance Made Two Trips