# Saint Mark? *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 17 Jan 2005* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Jim Raylor *17 Jan 2005, 13:22* Le Marche des Carabos This is an odd one but a belgian translated the hourglass or eggtimer in windows as a 'Sand Walker' The prehistoric ancestor of cats and dogs had a fifth toe that was semi-opposable... before they learnt how to make these apes hunt for them...by teaching them how to hunt. I am sure this book was on GW's library shelf as a boy : http://www.childrensbooksonline.org/Marquis_of_Carabas/index.htm ---