Cat Burglar, page 2.
Added 2017-06-11 17:44:34 +0000 UTCThe "foomp" is an oil lamp being lit, not an electrical device being switched on, nota bene. The Forest in which our characters live has not yet experienced the Industrial Revolution.
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Methinks Dr. Dee may be dealing with an addict stealing drugs, or goods to pay for them. When I was a kid (1960s), my eye doctor's office still had functional gas jets in the rooms, although it was wired for electricity decades before. The guy who fitted the eyeglasses demonstrated lighting one for my Dad and I. Being a chemist, Dad was used to Bunsen burners and the like, but at six or seven, I hadn't heard a gas mantle ignite. <b>FOOMP!</b> indeed!
Perfesser Bear
2017-06-11 17:54:48 +0000 UTC
