From 2c9ad065c18510152e963c198d3b09684e6bc563 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: nhmall Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 10:50:39 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] 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'. > --- dat/data.base | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/dat/data.base b/dat/data.base index 6bca23177..57aea652e 100644 --- a/dat/data.base +++ b/dat/data.base @@ -5321,6 +5321,22 @@ web 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