Mice and other animals

[shewhomust]

Thank you to desperance and cellio, who encouraged me to stop messing about with the touchpad, and go find a mouse: yes, that's much better. In evidence, have some typing:

In 1910, when the Tour de France first crossed the high Pyrenees, newspaper reporters imagined, half hoping, that marauding bears might affect the outcome of the race by eating some of the riders. The riders flogged themselves across the mountains on rocky roads long since deserted by the bears. At Nîmes, on the seventh stage of the Tour, a frisky dog caused a serious accident, but the only lethal animal attack came from a jelly-fish during the rest day at Nice.

The Discovery of France
Graham Robb

Hand typed, as I am not yet reunited with the computer which talks to the scanner; but we abandoned the never-ending backup after 25 hours and restarted it with some technical modifications (er - plugging it in to the back of the computer instead of the front?) and it is nowrunning much faster.