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Updated: May 3, 2025
Larches lay like spellicans one on another. Some leant against those that were yet standing, and in the tops of these last there was a roaring like an incoming tide on rocks. Crackings and groanings, sudden crashes, loud reports like gun-fire, were all about her as she climbed a tiny figure in chaos. When she came to the graveyard, havoc was there also.
So I always take my knitting across the road to the crypt of St. Sebastian's, and I'm sure you won't mind coming too. You might have brought a box of spellicans, or a set of table croquet, but I'm afraid the Vicar wouldn't like it. A nice man but dretfully particular. We must wait for the end of this piece, the first violin is so touchy." They all waited patiently while the piece continued.
Here on the Adriatic side there were political entanglements that by comparison made our western after-the-war problems plain sailing. He talked of the game of spellicans among the Balkan nationalities. How was that difficulty to be met? In Macedonia there were Turkish villages that were Christian and Bulgarians that were Moslem.
"They seem to spend their silly little lives getting in each other's way," said the eldest boy, "Rights and laws and regulations and rascalities; it's like a game of spellicans.... Well, anyhow, they'll have to live in their grubby, dirty, silly little houses for a bit longer. It's very evident we can't go on with this."
"Oh, lots to do, you know," said Pilbury "dominoes, you know, or spellicans. I've got a box at home." "Jolly slow always playing dominoes," said Cusack, "or spellicans." "Well, then, there's " "Hold hard!" broke in Cusack, struck with a sudden idea. "What's the name of the thing old Philpot's always at?" "What, chemistry? Jolly good idea, old man! Let's go in for that."
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