Snakes' Elbows (2011)
“A great crowd of people pressed into the sale room at half past twelve and jostled for the best seats. The reporter from the Woodford Trumpet was scampering around talking to people and scribbling furiously in his notebook the whole time. The photographer was there too, taking pictures of everyone as they arrived.
Plooff! Here was Jasper Jellit looking elegant in a white linen suit, with Cannibal and Bruiser on two stout leather leads.
Plooff! Here was Mrs Haverford-Snuffley wearing a s...traw hat with a hole in the crown and a bat hanging from the brim. ‘We’re both terribly excited, aren’t we?’ she said and the bat nodded. ‘I want a new front door and all the bats want central heating.’ Plooff! Here was Philomena Phelan, the director of the Woodford Art Gallery, with a glum expression on her face. ‘We’d love to buy the painting for the gallery so that everyone in the town could see it whenever they wanted,’ she said, ‘but we have hardly any money so I’m not very hopeful.’ Plooff!MoreLess
Plooff! Here was Jasper Jellit looking elegant in a white linen suit, with Cannibal and Bruiser on two stout leather leads.
Plooff! Here was Mrs Haverford-Snuffley wearing a s...traw hat with a hole in the crown and a bat hanging from the brim. ‘We’re both terribly excited, aren’t we?’ she said and the bat nodded. ‘I want a new front door and all the bats want central heating.’ Plooff! Here was Philomena Phelan, the director of the Woodford Art Gallery, with a glum expression on her face. ‘We’d love to buy the painting for the gallery so that everyone in the town could see it whenever they wanted,’ she said, ‘but we have hardly any money so I’m not very hopeful.’ Plooff!MoreLess
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