Feast Fight! (2014)
“I begged.“No way.”“Pretty please?”Margaret glared at me over the pot of stoat and turnip stew she was stirring for Sir Percy’s supper. He still wasn’t back from the village.“I said no,” she barked, shaking her head so much that several drops of sweat flew off the end of her red nose and plopped into the stew. “I ain’t cooking no fancy rubbish. Even if I wanted to, the master couldn’t afford it. He ain’t got a brass farthing left after paying for that bloomin’ tapestry.”
After returning from... Sir Spencer’s, I’d dashed to the kitchen to discuss the banquet menu with Mouldybun Margaret, Sir Percy’s cook. Actually there wasn’t much of a discussion. Margaret isn’t exactly the top chef in the kingdom. Her idea of a banquet fit for Their Majesties looked like this: Yum!“Sir Percy can’t be that skint,” I said. “He’s just bought an expensive new hunting cap.”
“Well, I dunno how he paid for it,” grumbled Margaret.MoreLess
After returning from... Sir Spencer’s, I’d dashed to the kitchen to discuss the banquet menu with Mouldybun Margaret, Sir Percy’s cook. Actually there wasn’t much of a discussion. Margaret isn’t exactly the top chef in the kingdom. Her idea of a banquet fit for Their Majesties looked like this: Yum!“Sir Percy can’t be that skint,” I said. “He’s just bought an expensive new hunting cap.”
“Well, I dunno how he paid for it,” grumbled Margaret.MoreLess
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