use the Black Death, what about Sleeping Fever?
That does not kill, it only makes you sleep for a week or so. You wake
up pretty miserable, but you don't die."
22 "You know I'm not sure of that, Wise Crow! That research
is not complete. It would take me some time to be sure we have the
right germ. And, we don't have enough to infect the water of the city."
23 "Not by dumping it in the river," agreed Wise Crow, "but if somebody
swam down and dumped it in the pool where they get their water, we'd
have a good chance it would multiply and infect them."
24 "Risky for the person doing it," argued Blue Blossom.
25 "I've already studied the river," explained Wise Crow. "I can make
it. If they let me borrow a dog, I can be back with the containers by
tomorrow afternoon, get a few hour's sleep, and dump them tomorrow
night. If it works, in about seven days they should start getting sick.
26 In twelve days the first ones will start recovering. But it will be
another three days before they can get up, I'd say you should attack
on the fourteenth day. That's when the most of them should be sick."
27 Bold Fox looked at Blue Blossom. "What do you think?" he asked.
"Does it have a chance of working?"
28 "If it's the right germ," she agreed, "it should work about the way
he said."
29 "Give this young man a dog," ordered Bold Fox, "and a six man
escort!"
30 Wise Crow left. "Is he a good swimmer?" asked Bold Fox.