Following the prostration to which his spouse had succumbed upon being insulted with the charivari in Southville, Mr Ian Corby at the suggestion of the spouse of Mr Jagtar Singh - relayed to him through her spouse, viz. Mr Jagtar Singh - had his spouse, viz. Mrs Bianca Corby, conveyed by the gentleman just mentioned to the infirmary for indisposed beasts. —
Ian Corby, Mr Jagtar Singh, Southville
Whether the symmetry obtaining between the two sets of proceedings - viz. the conveyings historical and present of Mayoral spouses to infirmaries for indisposed beasts - impressed itself upon Mr Jagtar Singh - the gentleman just mentioned being the sole party common to both sets of the proceedings just described - is a question which must sadly remain unresolved, inasmuch as, whether or not the gentleman in question himself shed any illumination upon the matter just alluded to, at any rate no such illumination on his part has been recorded either in this or any other chronicle, not even by the redoubtable Ms. Tennyson [concerning whom, q.v. op. cit.]. —
Mr Jagtar Singh
Howsomever, the chronicles record - or at any rate the present chronicle records herewith - that the symmetry between the two sets of events, whether or not it impressed itself upon Mr Jagtar Singh, extended itself after a certain Pythagorean or Euclidean fashion. The same charabanc conveyed them up the same stretch of Gloucester Road. Mrs Bianca Corby slumped insensibly on the same cushion as had her predecessor in that morganatic office, viz. Mrs Arabella Perroquet, and for all her prostration blessed it with a similar quality and comparable quantity of guano. Mr Jagtar Singh in the very same black turban and the very same braid conveyed them to the very same infirmary for indisposed beasts, viz. Perky Pets, reposing in the very same back streets of Horfield, with the very same waiting room, overseen by the very same monstrously fat beldam in green, and in which qualitatively if not numerically identical indisposed beasts in boxes or on human laps - rovers and towsers and pusses in the main, but with a leavening of feathered and slithering creatures and also centaurs and chimerae and hippogryphs - attended the attentions of the salvers and curers of beasts such as the rovers, towsers, pusses and exotica just mentioned. —
Gloucester Road, Perky Pets
“Perhaps that is not the avenue. The alternative, of course, is that you leave her with me. We use Nembutal, as I think I may have indicated previously. In case you need reminding, it’s a short-acting barbiturate. Depresses the central nervous system. Works a bird off very quick, does Nembutal, but does cost an amount which perhaps you may be able to have reimbursed if the insurance happens to be adequate.” —
Nembutal
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