two-gallon-odd

Updated: July 18, 2026

Skeletons covered with leather, Gloria Standish had called them, and so they were faces like skulls, arms and legs like sticks, the flesh shrunken onto the bones under it. "Isn't this something!" Lattimer was exulting. "Mass suicide, that's what it was. Notice what's in the corners?" Braziers, made of perforated two-gallon-odd metal cans, the white walls smudged with smoke above them.

H. Beam Piper - Omnilingual