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  • With chocolaty brown
    Her shining russet hoot covered her neck
  • Half a dozen times on the way back from Ian’s place, I stopped and lifted the lid of the shoe box to stare raptly at my…
    Beautiful bantam hen!
  • Of stick fast fleas
    Ugh!
  • But I comforted myself that my mother
    Who knew everything!
  • Please god let me have a bantam
    Please!
  • You could never really be quite sure how my mother was going to take things
    There was only one way to find out
  • Like his cricket bat
    And his football boots
  • What have you got in the box?
    This was the moment!
  • It was nice to stand outside for a moment and think that none of them knew that I was going to give them
    The surprise of their lives
  • It’d be worth it
    Yeah!
  • You’re it!
    Ask no questions
  • Old ally breen
    Went to see the queen!
  • When some of my friends must have known that I’d been up to their places on Saturday. Coooe!
    Oh, Hungerford!
  • The open ground was littered with bent and rusted sheets of galvanised iron
    I bet it had been disturbed for years before we wandered into it that day
  • With his tail curving over his back like a boomerang
    He would stop at the edge of a patch of pig’s face for a moment
  • And make us go back and back again
    JUST TO SEE HIM DO IT
  • Perch on your head
    Claw your scalp
  • And tear out your eyes
    Watch him!
  • Getting into trouble with a gang in Perth
    They were going into the big shops and stealing
  • And vacant blocks with fruit trees you could just rob if you wanted to
    Our mothers and fathers went to euchre parties
  • And when he started to talk about girls, he…
    Certainly opened our eyes!
  • The new kid looked from us to the goanna and back again
    Quite a few times
  • It’s tongue flickered in and out,
    and that pale blue film came and went across his eyes
  • Ding! Ding!
    Como!
  • You knew it was going to be a scorcher
    Phew!
  • Milk…
    Starch water!
  • There wasn’t much you could do about it
    Whooaa!
  • And claimed another
    And dropped him
    And claimed another
    And dropped him