Plonkton Beat the Drum Slowly | Page 61

Brudder Big Olaf Gallowsbird. Big Olaf Gallowsbird brought it. Buttass GALLOWSBIRD! Fetch that plank! Pickles Olaf Gallowsbird, the man born to lead the Cidermen, duly obliged. Buttass Now, ram it up Brudder ' s ass. How I hate Black and White Minstrels. Brudder I ' m not a Black and White Minstrel. Buttass You are now. Brudder OUCH! Pickles The skies over the Tiphead Wastelands filled with smoke, coal dust, moans and groans. Buttass GALLOWSBIRD! Gallowsbird YES, SIR. Buttass Extract that plank. Gallowsbird YES, SIR. Buttass Now place it across the River Slutch. Gallowsbird YES, SIR. Buttass PICKLES! Pickles YES, SIR. Buttass Fetch that Conker brother of yours and start across that plank. My Skullcrackers will ensure you do not make the other side. Pickles YES, SIR. Pickles Gulp! Gurgle! Hamilton! Get this eel out of my gob. Buttass Skullcrackers! Load all those carcasses unto the trailer. Pickles Please don’ t take us to Dock Street again! Buttass Pickles, you’ re a mind reader.
AT THE PUBLIC TOILETS IN DAFFODIL PLACE( a few days later)
Pickles I propped my little ladder against the side of the toilets in Daffodil Place and accidentally overheard: Freeloader I assure you, my Honourable Peer, Pickles has a photo. He showed it to me.