add data.base suggestion for whistle
On 1/24/2014 6:48 AM, a bug reporter wrote: > The whistle in Nethack has no encyclopedia entry. I suggest for the next > release something from the M. R. James ghost story 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come > to You My Lad'. >
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Oh what a tangled web we weave,
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When first we practise to deceive!
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[ Marmion, by Sir Walter Scott ]
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whistle
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There were legends both on the front and on the back of the
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whistle. The one read thus:
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FLA FUR BIS FLE The other: QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT
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'I ought to be able to make it out,' he thought;
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'but I suppose I am a little rusty in my Latin.
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When I come to think of it, I don't believe I even
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know the word for a whistle. The long one does seem
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simple enough. It ought to mean, "Who is this who is coming?"
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Well, the best way to find out is evidently to whistle
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for him.'
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[Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, by Montague Rhodes James
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'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You My Lad']
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# werecritter -- see "lycanthrope"
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*wight
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When he came to himself again, for a moment he could recall
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