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 My Friend Mr. Leakey - J.B.S. Haldane
Description: ISBN 1903252199 / Genre: Junior Books Newest Review: ... they’re covered with tapestry curtains displaying various scenes; a hunt, a town under construction, and these scenes ... more  ... are constantly changing. During dinner a house gets built and the quarry is sighted, hunted and caught. In the fireplace lives Pompey, the tiny dragon. In a large copper pot in the corner lives Oliver the servant and cook. Around the walls are cabinets containing shelves and shelves of tall, leather-bound books. And the room is lit not by electric light but by real, luminous fruits of a kind our narrator has never seen before. His soup is produced from Mr Leakey’s hat, his turkey is produced and served...more |
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My Friend Mr. Leakey - J.B.S. Haldane: Sorry, My Title Writer Is Away At The Moment (1701 words)
by jillmurphy - written on 26.05.01 (Very useful, 136 readings)
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"Mr Leakey turned over the pages and read out a spell. Then he took my left foot, shoe and all, and unscrewed it. It didn't hurt a bit, though it felt funny. It unscrewed just above the ankle. It didn't bleed at all, and I could see the two bones as he took the foot off. He took a golden thing like a motor tyre pump and squirted something out of it into the stump of my foot. I felt a nice warm feeling going up my leg into me. Then he screwed my foot on again. I could still see the join, but he said another spell, and my leg looked just as it had done before." Oops. Sorry. I got carried away. Do you like that? I like that. No, I LOVE that. ...
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