From: rusty.hinge@foobar.girolle.co.uk   
      
   riburr wrote:   
   > There's stuff falling from the sky right now.  It seems to be coming   
   > from the thick clouds that have replaced the sun and blue sky.  It feels   
   > cool to the touch, and drips off the hair and skin.  It collects in   
   > puddles and flows across the ground.  I seem to remember something   
   > similar in the distant past...   
   > I also remember mushrooms favor this stuff.  I will walk in the woods   
   > and get my shoes wet, and see if the mushrooms have returned to get   
   > their faces wet.   
      
   I think the sky's leaking - it might have been punctured by showers of   
   Persids.   
      
   Here on t'other side of the pond it's leaking a bit, but it seems you've   
   hogged most of it.   
      
   However, it's ben damp enough to conjure a troop of Boletus luridus and   
   a lot of Lactarius torminosus.   
      
   > Government men have placed tin guards in the forest near our home.  The   
   > guards require no food, they need only drink from the sky.  We are told   
   > you can see how much the tin guards drink.  See:   
   > http://www.afws.net/data/va/Shenandoah.HTM   
      
   Tin gods? Tintinabulating tambourines!   
      
   > Our camp is very close to "Caroline Furnace," at the top of the list.   
      
   I've heard of 'Carolina Moon', and thaat was top of the list when I was   
   a schoolboy. Any connection?   
      
   > This tin guard drinks much from the sky.  He must be favored among the   
   > others.  Hopefully he will ask the sky to make the mushrooms happy by   
   > splashing their faces.  When the mushrooms are happy we are happy.   
      
   You should be kind to them, and give the all umbrellas.   
      
   And bowler hats, if the idea commends itself to you.   
      
   --   
   Rusty   
      
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