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[John Burgess]

Skip Wolfe writes:

>>5) "`Bert,' suggests the constable, trying to remember if it's right 
>>hand grasps left arm above elbow or left hand grasps...."  
>>   
>>   Any significance in naming the Lord of the Sea "Bert"?  What's the 
>>   arm-elbow-hand stuff?
>>
>I always assummed it had to do with him (the constable) trying to
>remember the proper procedure for collaring an escaped loony.

Come to think of it, the constables attempt to remembers sounds an awful lot 
like Red Cross "life saving technique" courses in how to turn a drowning 
person to avoid being drowned by him....