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Show V "A total of 153 lambs were born, withal, and -24198 of them survived. There were 0 twins born. Of those, 5 sets had both lambs survive, 38 sets had but 1 survive, and 17172 sets had no survivors at all. "The average time a lamb spent in the accepting pen was -1.087583 days." from Lamb Harvest Printout, FifthMonth, 2386, for Yeoman Kronig, Rasher Commendium Well, those things happen, don't they? Poof! and you've lost the picture, pardee. But in this case, the technical difficulties disconnected Dr'Igor's transhologram system on instructions from an obscure Vice Manager in the SecurityDivision of the Bureau of Information Dissemination (or BID, as the Bauercrats called i t ) . Dr'Igor, you see, had been wrong about one thing-every Snoop in NewOxbridge had already been switched to his line, and the Snoop had fielded, evidently, a veritable legion of waiting androids who burst into the room behind Dr'Anya on the heels of Dr'Igor's disintegration. Checked for a moment at the sight of the woman in Dr'Igor's sanctum, they plunged into a barrage of questions-Who be'est thou, if it please, milady? Whence earnest thou, milady? Whither goest thou, milady? and such like. Her answers precipitated a complex of transmissions back and forth betwixt Dr'Igor's sanctum and BESPA, encompassing connections to wrong departments, disconnections from right ones, and a spate of conflicting and contradictory instructions-not only between sanctums but among members of the legion itself. The imbroglio was straightened out in 43 |
