Smithereens Press Chapbooks 'Zero at the Bone' by David Wheatley | Page 12

SCENE TWO
MCDONALD
[Enters reading from a notebook.]
Sparrowhawk 2, Stock Dove 1, Skylark 9, Meadow Pipit 21, Rock Pipit 2, Blackbird
4, Starling 50, Chaffinch 3, Goldfinch 2, Lesser Redpoll 20... [Yawns theatrically.]
MCALLISTER
Where’ve you been? The Land of Nod?
MCDONALD
Ravenser.
MCALLISTER
Odd.
MCDONALD
[Spells it out.] Ravenser Odd.
MCALLISTER
What’s that about?
MCDONALD
Some days on the shore I can just make out
what you might think was a buoy or the snout
of a whale but it’s, you’ll never guess what –
MCALLISTER
Where?
MCDONALD
Beyond the end of the spit.

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