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,
When first we practise to deceive!
[ Marmion, by Sir Walter Scott ]
whistle
There were legends both on the front and on the back of the
whistle. The one read thus:
FLA FUR BIS FLE The other: QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT
'I ought to be able to make it out,' he thought;
'but I suppose I am a little rusty in my Latin.
When I come to think of it, I don't believe I even
know the word for a whistle. The long one does seem
simple enough. It ought to mean, "Who is this who is coming?"
Well, the best way to find out is evidently to whistle
for him.'
[Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, by Montague Rhodes James
'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You My Lad']
# werecritter -- see "lycanthrope"
*wight
When he came to himself again, for a moment he could recall