Istammered. Finaly I said what I usually did to him. "I dont know dad." "You dont know? " He let go and put his hand to his mouth, stuck afinge... in his mouth. Than he put the finger up against by butthole. Hepressed it against there until finally it gave way and his finger slid inslowly and tightly." How do you feel having a man stick his finger in youasshole boy? Does it feel good? If it does than you are queer. Simple asthat. Maybe you know that now too." I couldnt speak. His finger. The coin was recognised as legal tender along the Malabar Coast but unfortunately, the vendor did not have enough rupees to give me change. The items purchased came to one rupee and eight annas, and there are ten rupees to a thaler.There was nothing for it but to search out a money changer and exchange thalers for rupees.“There is a money changer in the next alley, sahib,” Akram said, and he led me through a chattering throng of brightly dressed Indians, past the open-fronted ‘shops’ offering. Now, as you can imagine, Quinn, being a wizard, could have populated his garden with the most exotic flora known to mankind.But being the easy going kind of wizard that he was, Quinn preferred just potatoes and cabbage.Now, all kinds of animals loved that cabbage. Quinn considered lots of remedies. Walls of fire. Ice swords of eternal vigilance. But being the easy going kind of wizard that he was, and not really wanting to blast innocent animals into their basic component molecules without due. He came into the room and told me he was heading out to town to buy the papers and pick additional breakfast items.I was glad he was, I was thinking about John in the next room, 'Is John awake'?He shrugged his shoulders in a manner that he did not know, 'Let him sleep longer', he replied, as he made his way out of the room and the front door closed behind him.I jumped from my bed and peered through the curtains, to see him drive off, into the strong early morning sunlight.I was nude and felt in.