Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.
I'll have none of you fellows dangiing about here; my daughter is off to Cairo, so is the old woman, and I guess that she was hitched to Elisha Kent yesterday! Now take your hook.
The document was written in the Middle Ages, c. 1250.
During the first few days this disease does not affect the appetite, nor does it affect the general appearance of the bird, it simply appears weak on its legs, but as time goes on it becomes weaker and, not able to get about, it is trampled on and pecked by its mates, and soon becomes thin and louse ridden.