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The others fell into line to the rear. It began to look like a respectable fighting force. "And after madness?" Calhoun asked. "Then they're paras!" said the Health Minister. "They crave the incredible. They feed on the abominable. And they hate us normals as devils out of hell would hate us!" "And after that again?" said Calhoun. "I mean, what's the prognosis? Do they die or recover?
The coffee is served steaming hot in tiny cups holding about two table-spoonfuls, the price varying from ten paras upward, according to the grade of the establishment. A favorite way of passing the evening is to sit in front of one of these establishments, watching the passing throngs, and smoke a nargileh, this latter requiring a good half-hour to do it properly.
The salt is sold at the mine, and owners of transportation facilities in the shape of pack animals make money by purchasing it here at six paras an oke, and selling it at a profit in distant towns. Two young men seem to have charge of transacting the business; one of them is inordinately inquisitive, he even wants to try and unstick the envelope containing a letter of introduction to Mr.
The delusion of the para is that these squirming, writhing objects are delightful! Paras develop an irresistible craving for them! It is as if men on an Earth-like world develop an uncontrollable hunger for vultures and rats and even less tolerable things. These scavengers paras eat them! So normal men would rather die than become paras!" Calhoun gagged in purely instinctive revulsion.
Out of sheer habit, Calhoun said, "Acknowledge." Then he added sharply: "Hold it! I've just had an emergency call " The first voice interrupted stridently: "Cut your signal, you fool! I told you not to answer any other call! Cut your signal!" The strictly professional other voice said coldly: "Emergency call, eh? That'll be paras.
Not ... a para " Then he said fiercely. "We've got to get this thing started! We've got to start curing paras " "Who," said Calhoun, "will be ashamed of what they remember. We can't get co-operation form them! And we can't get co-operation from the government! The men who were the government are paras and they've given their authority to Dr. Lett. You don't think he'll abdicate, do you?
A supply of the required 2 c. stamps was provided by a locally type-set design enclosed in a ring. It is said that this delivery of letters was discontinued soon after it was started, hence rarity of the stamp. Only eleven copies of this quaint postage stamp are known, and its market value is probably somewhere about £600. Moldavia, 1858, 81 paras.
But at this the Armenian shrieks violently. He scorns Turkish money and advises Italian lire. At the idea of lire the crowd howl. They hurl at you instead francs, piastres, paras, drachmas, lepta, metalliks, mejidis, centimes, and English shillings. The money-changer argues with them gravely. He does not send for the police to drive them away.
From the day of his arrival in Greece he discarded animal food and lived mainly on toast, vegetables, and cheese, olives and light wine, at the rate of forty paras a day. In spite of his strength of purpose, his temper was not always proof against the rapacity and turbulence by which he was surrounded.
To the above concise sketch of the history of Tabaristan for the period which concerns us, which I have translated from Justi, one of the most sympathetic writers on Iran, a few paras may be added from the fascinating history of Ibn-Isfandiyar which professor Browne has made accessible to us.
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