Tying Down the Lion
“Acclamation The next morning, the breakfast table is piled high with cold meat. Slipping back into the bedroom again, Victor and I make a pact not to be forced to eat any, resurrecting an old rhyme we made up to fortify us for Mum’s dinners.
Touch your forehead, Slap your knees, Stuff your pillow with mouldy cheese.
Eat something horrid And catch a disease.
Bagsy I’m not the first to heave.
When we come back after several repetitions, suitably bewitched to withstand any adult wh...o tries to make us eat, the table is groaning with eggs, peppery black bread, pale cheese, warm, gritty cake and rashers of bacon fried especially for us English folk.
“Is that really bacon, do you think?” I hiss in Victor’s ear.
“Could be rats’ tongues,” he says.
We settle for cheese.
Beate and Grandma are both tittering away.MoreLess
Touch your forehead, Slap your knees, Stuff your pillow with mouldy cheese.
Eat something horrid And catch a disease.
Bagsy I’m not the first to heave.
When we come back after several repetitions, suitably bewitched to withstand any adult wh...o tries to make us eat, the table is groaning with eggs, peppery black bread, pale cheese, warm, gritty cake and rashers of bacon fried especially for us English folk.
“Is that really bacon, do you think?” I hiss in Victor’s ear.
“Could be rats’ tongues,” he says.
We settle for cheese.
Beate and Grandma are both tittering away.MoreLess
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