Pickles How did you find out all that information? Snipes I didn ' t. I made it up. Pickles Really! Well you have landed Freeloader in it good and truly this time. Snipes That twister will wriggle out of it somehow. It is Twaddle I like dropping in it. Pickles Strange, I thought him and you were in the same camp? Both Sleazers, I mean. Snipes Yes but doesn ' t the donkey greaser sail in the same ship as the captain. Pickles Beyond me, I ' m sure. Snipes Let’ s have another drink. It has been a good day. Conk Whaa maaa heeeer- sup moooor nu. Pickles Hamilton Conk pointed to his empty pint glass but I had to take him in hand:‘ Your exemption certificate is invalid after you finish your next pint. You are almost as costly as Basil Freeloader,' I told my beloved half-brother. Noddler No more for me! Things may be happening in my absence- which may not augur well for of my future existence. Snipes And who is threatening you now, Jethro? Noddler If you live next door to the Bull Ferguson your whole life becomes one constant threat. Conk Whooo noo brooon coo. Snipes What does he say? Pickles He says the Bull Ferguson is not as hard as he is cracked up to be.
ON THE VILLAGE GREEN WITH THE PUMP
Pickles The next meeting on the Village Green with the Pump proved Basil Freeloader could wriggle out of anything, as Perkin Snipes had forecasted. For he was there, in all his cunning glory, as if nothing had happened. But Lizzie Juggins was tied to a big wooden wheel of the old cart. Cidermen ' Burn her like a bitch '. Gallowsbird WITCH- the words are: burn her like a WITCH. How much scrumpy have you lot had already? Pickles The Cidermen threw armfuls of straw all over the lady with no obvious independent means. Cidermen
' Burn her like a bitch '. ' Burn her like a bitch '.