add Paul's scimitar quote

diff --git a/dat/data.base b/dat/data.base
index 7610246ed63f33232e401aba98d32918f40fc79e..e946263682035bff7b1631fb3cc01d2bc3435635 100644 (file)
--- a/dat/data.base
+++ b/dat/data.base
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#      SCCS Id: @(#)data.base  3.4     2001/09/01
+#      SCCS Id: @(#)data.base  3.4     2002/05/20
 #      Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team
 #      Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers
 #      NetHack may be freely redistributed.  See license for details.
@@ -3329,6 +3329,12 @@ sasquatch
        addition will protect anyone who carries it from magic
        missile attacks.  When invoked, it causes conflict in the
        area around it.
+scimitar
+       Oh, how handsome, how noble was the Vizier Ali Tebelin,
+       my father, as he stood there in the midst of the shot, his
+       scimitar in his hand, his face black with powder!  How his
+       enemies fled before hiim!
+               [ The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas ]
 scorpio*
        A sub-species of the spider (_Scorpionidae_), the scorpion
        distinguishes itself from them by having a lower body that