actually gymrat i was on 'tinternet', watching come dine with me and looking up page 17 in the book i'm reading, som eof us can multitask you know. ok maybe not spell but you can't have everything, oh and fending of the cat :-)
Mine says
He crossed the street, stumbling like a drunk, then slid Brubaker's body into a shallow snowbank, where it hissed briefly like a match dropped into a stale drink.