Hey remember friday is International Talk Like a Pirate Day - I hope you've all been practicing me hearties arrrr!


Oaklet ... no need to worry about me mate like I was saying....What for instance, was that sacklike monster , that snoring hummock, that deadweight of disjointed horror? Vile and brutish it looked as it lay curled like a black dog on the professor's desk; but what was it? One would say it was dead, for it was as heavy as death and as motionless; but there was a sound of stifled snoring coming from it, with the occasional whistle as of wind through jagged glass.