MD3PAD 235-237

[Toby G Levy]

        Whike is unfamiliar with the term "pizza" and Maire describes it
as a "Delicacy of Cheese, Bread and Fish." The patrons of the Cudgel and
Throck express an interest in learning to make a pizza and Maire asks
for a risen but uncooked loaf and he begins to flatten it. An
enthusiastic Lud finishes the job. Maire asks for a tomato but there is
none to be found. Dixon pulls a bottle of Ketjap out of his surveyor's
kit. Maire then asks for fish and Mr. Brain finds a cask of anchovies.
Maire then asks for cheese and is supplied with the stilton left over
from the Ploughman's Lunch. They put the pizza in a baking oven next to
the fireplace.

        It is beginning to get dark and Lud is acting nervous. Lud's
mother and Emerson are glad it is a cloudy night so that the moon will
not appear, for Lud apparently is a werewolf. Emerson thinks that
popular belief in werewolves are reinforced by the changes males go
through during the onset of puberty.

        Unfortunately the clouds clear away and the moon shines through
the window.  As soon as he notices it, Lud runs out the door, followed
by Whike, who reports back that he can see Lud changing. Once the change
is complete, Lud strolls back into the pub, dressed like a dandy and
speaking letter perfect upper-crust English.  For Lud, the
transformation is from neanderthal to a model of modern culture!  His
mother groans that he stays this way for two or three nights, but that
she can "tolerate" it.

Toby