“So each day the others would put on what I considered to be ridiculous costumes: floppy hats and brown linen pouches slung over one shoulder, long walking staffs in one hand, various items in the other. Then they’d traipse up the hill between the house and the river, ultimate destination unspecified, and do whatever it was they did. They said they brought their work with them and played at being pilgrims, but for all I knew they could have been casting spells over the town and playing at being ...witches. As I say, I wanted no part of these self-improvements.But there was something boring, not to mention a little lonely, in being left behind, so once they were safely out of view I went to visit Laurie.“I’m bored, dude,” he said when he came to the door.“There’s a bit of that going around, dude,” I said. “Maybe we need to do something out of the ordinary?”“I already tried that,” he said. “I frustrated Brooke by deliberately making mistakes in all my studies, then I scared the maids by implying that one of the dogs was going mad.”“That last sounds like it has possibilities,”MoreLessRead More Read Less
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