as witnessed in the pics below, chinamen seem to still practice things siggimus thought went out with leeches
as siggimus lies calmly with his face in the hole, the chinaman carries in a trayful of jam jars & some sort of glass jars siggimus hasn’t encountered before
in astonishment, siggimus & haraldur (who may have paid to see this) observe óli digging a moist ball of cotton with great difficulty out of some sort of flask with a pair of ridiculously long tweezers
he waves at siggimus, indicating that he should lay still, which siggimus does, but in the periphery of his vision, siggimus sees óli light the moist cotton ball aflame
soon after, siggimus hears a plop! & feels sharp pain on shoulder
a little glass jar, that in a previous life housed jam, sits on siggimus’ shoulder & tries to suck siggimus into itself, with the apparent force of a tiny black hole
‘arr light?’ chinaman asks
‘yes!’ siggimus bravely grunts
plop!
plop!!
plop! plop! plop! plop!
plop! plop! plop! plop!
& a plop!
‘arr light?’
‘hurts!!’ siggimus squeals
checking to see if all were in position, two fell off
‘ten minute!’
ten horrible minutes later, chinaman reappears & starts plucking jam jars off with painful thuds
one of those thuds was followed by the chinese equivalent of ‘uffa!’
turning around, siggimus sees a humongous blackish-purple dot on his shoulder
‘not good,’ chinaman says, indicating the only proper fire cup glass jar among the former jam jars & shaking head
siggimus agrees, poking humongous blackish-purple dot to see if it ached
it didn’t
a few minutes later, siggimus gets up, turns on lights & tries to get a peak at back in mirror
‘egad!!’
it looks as if a tiny little spaceship had used the siggimus back as training ground to test its landing gear
its faulty landing gear…
but!
(there’s always a but!)
siggimus’s back does feel better!!
so, if they start waving leeches at siggimus, who is siggimus to question their wisdom?
